mikedpitt420 Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 So I just purchased a Supermicro 836, new Supermicro X10SRL-F, installed 16GB of recommended Supermicro RAM, flashed 2 9211-8i's to IT mode successfully. Plugged everything in, and unRAID just says "too many incorrect disks". It looks from the main page that it sees 3 random disks. Can anyone tell me what I've done incorrectly? tower-diagnostics-20190204-0313.zip Quote Link to comment
mikedpitt420 Posted February 4, 2019 Author Share Posted February 4, 2019 (edited) During boot the 9211 BIOS screen goes by and says something about configuration changes but when I enter it, I don't seem to have many options to change anything. I think this is definitely the problem. Should I get an SAS expander instead of 2 9211 8is? If so, which one would anyone recommend with this card? I've never really used one before. Edited February 4, 2019 by mikedpitt420 Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Disks are just not being detected, if they don't appear on the HBA bios they also won't appear on Unraid, what is the backplane model? Quote Link to comment
mikedpitt420 Posted February 4, 2019 Author Share Posted February 4, 2019 SuperMicro CSE-836A-R1200B> I really hope this isn't incompatible as several people from the forums told me that there are "great deals on supermicro 836 cases on ebay".... I wouldn't think it's entirely incompatible as it does see some drives. I think it's just that the BIOS for both cards is not loading correctly. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 I was asking the backplane model, looks like that chassis only comes with the BPN-SAS-836A, if so that's a direct connection backplane with sff-8087 cables, so no chance of getting the wrong cables, check all power/SAS connections, if both HBAs don't detect any disks it's likely a backplane problem. Quote Link to comment
mikedpitt420 Posted February 4, 2019 Author Share Posted February 4, 2019 They do detect some disks. But with both 9211s when the bios loads it identifies one properly and the other unsuccessfully. I will report back when I get my SAS expander. Which I have verified works with the 9211 in it mode. Quote Link to comment
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