cyruspy Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 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? Quote Link to comment
cyruspy Posted April 5, 2016 Author Share Posted April 5, 2016 No-one used this cage before? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment
cyruspy Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) 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, 2021 by cyruspy Quote Link to comment
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