I bought a new hba, lsi 9211-8i in IT mode on latest firmware 20. 

My computer sees the device but in the storage utility it doesn’t read any of my drives. The dries are older 3tb drives. I tried installing a fairly old 1tb drive that I know works and it still doesn’t see it. Any ideas?

i haven’t tried changing out my breakout cable but I’d be surprised if both cables were bad. 

 

Unraid reads the card when checking dmesg and lspci but none of the drives. 

Edited September 21, 20187 yr by Marauder

2 hours ago, Marauder said:

changing out my breakout cable but I’d be surprised if both cables were bad. 

Unless you bought the wrong kind of breakout cables.  You may have bought reverse breakout, but you need forward.

15 minutes ago, Squid said:

Unless you bought the wrong kind of breakout cables.  You may have bought reverse breakout, but you need forward.

I haven’t heard of reverse breakout cables for sas to sata. These cables were used previously in a road setup on an lsi card. Granted that was 4-5 years ago. And have since been sitting in a box. 

So my windows 10 machine doesn’t read the drives either. I was told in other forums that firmware 20 doesn’t work in Linux and I should downgrade to 16. So I downgraded to 16 and still no luck. I’ve got new cables coming Monday. Any other ideas?

On 9/23/2018 at 5:54 AM, Marauder said:

I was told in other forums that firmware 20 doesn’t work in Linux

That is not correct, as long as you're using the latest p20 firmware, and you were, it works fine.

I bought new cables and it worked. So I’ve upgraded back to p20 firmware and it’s working  fine.

Sometimes the sas plug will not fit correct.

I also got fooled that way, especially if you dont have enough space to fiddle around.

Yea this just happened to be bad cables. The case was large enough that I didn’t have to bend the cables to get them into the controller or drives. I took these cables out of an old server so they must have been bad or reverse breakout.