September 6, 20169 yr I have an AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 with 8 drives. Recognized fine by motherboard. Everything fine in Windows. (Sorry, this seems to be the best place for AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 support - I'm not running unRAID, but rather Stablebit Drivepool...don't flame me too much) I also have an SSD that is my boot drive into Win Server 2012 R2. From a cold boot (shutdown, or power cable pull) machine will POST and AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 will go through its checks, and then I get no boot device available. I can then immediately do a CTRL-ALT-DEL restart, and after the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 checks, it will boot fine from my SSD. Any subsequent warm restart will not have any problems. It's only when power is shut off to the machine that the motherboard seems to lose the boot drive. I've been racking my brain trying to figure out what's wrong, but cannot seem to get this fixed. I want to run this machine headless so doing a CTRL-ALT-DEL, say after a power outage or something, was not exactly in my plans. Suggestions?
September 7, 20169 yr Couple of times when I have had issues with Supermicro SAS cards a BIOS upgrade has resolved them. Caveat being I only use Supermicro motherboards.... My issues have been card not seen type issues however.
September 9, 20169 yr Author Just wanted to update with solution - apparently my SSD drive is a little old, so I had to enable a "hot swappable" option on the SATA port in my BIOS for my SSD. once I did that, no more boot issues, yah!
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