efthernet Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Hi Guys, I'm new to Unraid and need help setting a build hopefully with 20 drives. I have the following hardware and recently got a Dell LSI SAS 9206 Non RAID 16e PCI E 3.0 16 Port 6gb Controller. The card seem to compatible out the box but cant seem to get any drives to load. I have double checked SATA is to AHCI on MB, switched card from one pci lane to another, and set new hardware configuration. I'm not sure if this a driver issue or if I need flash it as the card is suppose to be JBOD only. vraid-syslog-20180718-2135.zip & vraid-diagnostics-20180718-2140.zip Asus Z170-PRO MB 6700k 16 GB RAM 4x 6TB drives 4x 500 SSDs Dell LSI SAS 9206-16e Thanks in advanced! Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Does the HBA have a bios and are the disks detected there? Quote Link to comment
ken-ji Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 How is the HBA connected to your disks? its an external variant, so you should be using SFF-8088/SFF-8644 to SFF-8088/SFF-8644 cable to a SAS/SATA enclosure. The driver started up fine but did not detect any disks Quote Link to comment
efthernet Posted July 19, 2018 Author Share Posted July 19, 2018 5 hours ago, johnnie.black said: Does the HBA have a bios and are the disks detected there? Not sure I tried different key combos bring up a bios but no luck. Quote Link to comment
efthernet Posted July 19, 2018 Author Share Posted July 19, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, ken-ji said: How is the HBA connected to your disks? its an external variant, so you should be using SFF-8088/SFF-8644 to SFF-8088/SFF-8644 cable to a SAS/SATA enclosure. The driver started up fine but did not detect any disks Its my first time using sas controllers so I was confused on which cables to get so I bought these. I'm guessing the are not the right break out https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NCOQQLO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s03?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Edited July 19, 2018 by efthernet Quote Link to comment
ken-ji Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 If your HBA doesn't say that it sees the drives on boot, its entirely possible the cable is not even plugged in or completely borked. Please make sure to push the SFF8644 in very well. It should not come off unless you pull on the purple pull tab. Quote Link to comment
efthernet Posted July 19, 2018 Author Share Posted July 19, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, ken-ji said: If your HBA doesn't say that it sees the drives on boot, its entirely possible the cable is not even plugged in or completely borked. Please make sure to push the SFF8644 in very well. It should not come off unless you pull on the purple pull tab. I just tried another new cable on another port and different drives HDD, SSD. The mb does read the regular sata ports tho. Which cables are you using I see you are also using the LSI 9206-16e card. Did i get the right cables? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NCOQQLO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s03?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Edited July 19, 2018 by efthernet Quote Link to comment
ken-ji Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 They look like the right ones... I'm using an external enclosure - Areca 4036 https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1001223-REG/areca_arc_4036_8_bay_sas_enclosure.html/?c3ch=CSE&c3nid=98 (Which is discontinued by the manufacturer) So in my case I just have this: Adaptec ACK-E-HDmSAS-E-mSAS-2M https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=16U-004J-00001 Quote Link to comment
heratic Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 Did you ever get the card going? Quote Link to comment
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