I use this together with an asus  Z9PA-D8  motherboard. So I have a SuperMicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 card and a pike 2008 card.

When I start up it either chooses one of these cards at random but never both. Am I doing something wrong. Really would like to be able to rebuild my old server with this newer hardware and start tinkering with storage and VM's.

 

Can anyone get me up and running with hints. Read somewhere that it could have somethjing to do with IT mode and the two cards not liking eacht other in this setup.

 

OR can I go another route by not using the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 and use something else instead together with the pikecard?

10 minutes ago, JeepeeMajoor said:

I use this together with an asus  Z9PA-D8  motherboard. So I have a SuperMicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 card and a pike 2008 card.

When I start up it either chooses one of these cards at random but never both. Am I doing something wrong. Really would like to be able to rebuild my old server with this newer hardware and start tinkering with storage and VM's.

 

Can anyone get me up and running with hints. Read somewhere that it could have somethjing to do with IT mode and the two cards not liking eacht other in this setup.

 

OR can I go another route by not using the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 and use something else instead together with the pikecard?

I'm kind of confused. Are you saying your trying to boot from a drive instead of the unraid USB?

USB in place but before starting, you see all the text on screen after post. I used to see the card and the on board sata connections but since my move to other hardware it does what I described above

 

11 minutes ago, JeepeeMajoor said:

USB in place but before starting, you see all the text on screen after post. I used to see the card and the on board sata connections but since my move to other hardware it does what I described above

 

I can say when I had an ASRock tachi x399 it hated my hba card and wouldnt boot at all it would and it would trash my array. Anyways I recommend trying to boot with one card and then the other to see if either of them boot separately with this new board. If one does and the other doesn't perhaps try moving the slots around and if there are any bios updates try that as well.

I can move the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 but with the pike card, it's impossible. Weird thing is that it seems to boot showing one card first and in another boot the other but never at the same time.

 

58 minutes ago, JeepeeMajoor said:

OR can I go another route by not using the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8

The supermicro Marvel based cards are not recommended to use anymore as many users have nothing but problems with them.

1 minute ago, Squid said:

 

The supermicro Marvel based cards are not recommended to use anymore as many users have nothing but problems with them.

Can you name an alternative that might work? need 16 sata ports in total, 8 of them are on the mobo, steered by the pike card, or is that a marvel based one too, then i'm properly ( well the f word isn't usable here)

Pretty much any LSI based card (HBA or flashed to IT mode).

 

Maybe a stupid question, will two of these LSI based (pike card is also lsi 2008) work together without problems or should I take something else into account? Found a dell perc 310 and perc h200 card, wich is the better choice?

6 minutes ago, JeepeeMajoor said:

will two of these LSI based (pike card is also lsi 2008) work together without problems

They should, though some boards can be particular.

 

6 minutes ago, JeepeeMajoor said:

Found a dell perc 310 and perc h200 card, wich is the better choice?

Both use the same chip, but the H200 has 2 external ports while the H310 has 2 internal, which one is best depends on the intended use.

 

 

4 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

They should, though some boards can be particular.

 

Both use the same chip, but the H200 has 2 external ports while the H310 has 2 internal, which one is best depends on the intended use.

 

 

Do they have to have the same mode (IT) and firmware version?

Both can be crossflashed to LSI IT mode with 9211 firmware.

UPDATE:

 

Have received my H200 HBA in IT mode, installed it but still no joy. Can someone tell me how I can check in what mode my PIKE card is?

Getting a bit frustated hoped for an easier swap from older ish hardware.

You need to set the order of the cards in the card bios. If the cards have been flashed to IT mode without including the bios (mptsas2.rom) which they usually are to allow faster boot times, then you will have issues.