mbc0 Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 Hi, Bit gutted! My Dell Perc H330 turned up today, set the card's bios to HBA mode, all 8 drives detected ok but unraid does not see them? The card is showing under devices in unRAID Any ideas? Quote Link to comment
LammeN3rd Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 26 minutes ago, mbc0 said: Hi, Bit gutted! My Dell Perc H330 turned up today, set the card's bios to HBA mode, all 8 drives detected ok but unraid does not see them? The card is showing under devices in unRAID Any ideas? Does the card bios show the drives you have connected? Quote Link to comment
mbc0 Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 1 minute ago, LammeN3rd said: Does the card bios show the drives you have connected? yes mate, in HBA Mode Card's bios shows 8 drives connected. I went into the cards bios and can see 12gb/s connection to the SAS drive & 6gb/s to the sata drives. unRAID won't play! Just reading about flashing IT mode now, hopefully that is going to resolve it Quote Link to comment
LammeN3rd Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Just now, mbc0 said: yes mate, in HBA Mode Card's bios shows 8 drives connected. I went into the cards bios and can see 12gb/s connection to the SAS drive & 6gb/s to the sata drives. unRAID won't play! Just reading about flashing IT mode now, hopefully that is going to resolve it how do you have this setting? Quote Link to comment
mbc0 Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 It was disabled but changed it to automatic no change... Quote Link to comment
LammeN3rd Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 (edited) ok, did you check dmesg if the driver is loaded? this is from my server: and can you output # dmesg | grep scsi as well Edited January 23, 2019 by LammeN3rd Quote Link to comment
mbc0 Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 Hi, Sorry but been offline trying to flash this card but no luck with that either due to sas3flash not detecting the card "sas3flash no avago sas adapters found" here is my output, not looking good! Quote Link to comment
mbc0 Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 dmesg | grep scsi doesn't output anything... Quote Link to comment
LammeN3rd Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 (edited) looking at the above screenshot somehow the driver is not loading correctly, what firmware are you running on the H330 and have you tried another PCIe slot? my H330 is at FW 25.5.5.0005 but I've been running this card for about a year now without any issues on unraid (6.4 till 6.6) and have you tried booting another OS, to rule-out an compatibility issue with your other HW or even a broken card? Edited January 23, 2019 by LammeN3rd 1 Quote Link to comment
mbc0 Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 Hi, I am on the same firmware (it is from May 18) & I have tried all 3 PCI-e slots. I tried in my Windows 10 Desktop and all works perfectly so the card is good! I did try in a 3rd machine and it prevented the motherboard from loading the bios but this is well known with Dell cards and you have to blank off pins 5&6 on the card for it to work in non-dell machines. I guess I am stuffed, I cannot find anything concrete on the IT Mode, is yours in IT mode? does it exist for this card? Thanks for your time @LammeN3rd Quote Link to comment
mbc0 Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 Looks like buying the H330 was a bad move! don't know how your one works but according to countless forums I have spent all afternoon/evening reading it is not possible to flash the H330 into IT mode 😞 Quote Link to comment
mbc0 Posted February 1, 2019 Author Share Posted February 1, 2019 Just to update after my nightmare with the Perc H330 I bought the Unicaca SAS 3008, it has AVAGO SAS3008 Firmware and plugged & Played! Working perfectly with stunning speed especially on the SAS Drive at 12gb/s Perfect for £50! Quote Link to comment
grinnell27 Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 On 2/1/2019 at 2:27 PM, mbc0 said: Just to update after my nightmare with the Perc H330 I bought the Unicaca SAS 3008, it has AVAGO SAS3008 Firmware and plugged & Played! Working perfectly with stunning speed especially on the SAS Drive at 12gb/s Perfect for £50! This was an interesting read... I have just acquired a H330 and Im having the same issue!! It can see the disks in the BIO but not in unraid!!! So annoying, maybe ill have to just buy another card Would much rather use the H330 though. Quote Link to comment
mbc0 Posted February 3, 2019 Author Share Posted February 3, 2019 Yes, same issues... I posted in a couple of forums with my diagnostics and screenshots but no responses so figured it was a waste of time. Let me know what card you end up with please! Quote Link to comment
grinnell27 Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 6 hours ago, mbc0 said: Yes, same issues... I posted in a couple of forums with my diagnostics and screenshots but no responses so figured it was a waste of time. Let me know what card you end up with please! Not sure what to go for... Thats the next minefield. Quote Link to comment
Sleyk Esrun Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Hey Guys, I figured it out. You can now flash a Dell H330 Raid Card to HBA IT Firmware. Follow my instructions here: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/crossflash-dell-h330-raid-card-to-12gbps-hba-it-firmware.25498/ Read Everything! Happy Flashing! 1 Quote Link to comment
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