April 3, 201610 yr Hi! , I'm trying to match 2 x PERC H310 HBAs to 3 x Supermicro CSE-M35TQB, which I just received. I bought 2 breakout cables for each HBA but the cages came with one breakout cable that includes 4 SATA ports and a 2x4 PIN connectors on the cage side, I understand the latter is to control error LEDs. I was expecting to cable them like this: HBA 1: Ports 1-4 to Cage 1, disks 1-4 Ports 5 to Cage 1, disk 5 Ports 6-8 to Cage 2, disks 1-3 HBA 2: Ports 1-2 to Cage 2, disks 4-5 Ports 3-4 to Cage 3, disks 1-2 Ports 5-7 to Cage 3, disks 3-5 Ports 8, free But now that I got the extra cables, physically I'll be able to connect the extra signaling cable to the cages, but how will the HBAs know which cage to signal when there's a broken disk?
April 7, 201610 yr My understanding is that since unRaid does not leverage hardware raid, the HBA will never signal that a drive is offline. (could be mistaken and the HBA *may* be smart enough to know that a drive has dropped offline and then signal). Easy way to test would be to pull the sata / sas cable from the back of the cage and see what happens with the error lights
January 31, 20215 yr Author Well that build has been frozen for some years. I would like to restart it. Still have the 3 x CSE-M35TQB cages and 2 x H310. Also, I plan to get 1 x H220. This will allow me to match 1 cage to 1 HBA, 5 ports per HBA (3 unused ports per HBA). Waiting for an E3-1265L v2 and X9SCM-F. Will kill 3 PCIe slots but SES2 LEDs should work. Any better ideas? Edited January 31, 20215 yr by cyruspy
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