Cannot see Drives from OS/HBA questions

[Temereen64]

Greetings,

I finished testing my ram and CPU's, so I was ready to move onto the phase of testing hard drives. I can see the drives in the backplane config utility, while going through it I noticed the drives can be formatted through the HBA utility. Do the drives need to be formatted? (There is also an option to verify) (I cannot see them in the bios or in the OS. (I am Currently using a thumb drive with Fedora installed just for the testing/burn in phase.) Once all the testing is said and done I will install Freenas and set up my pool etc. After formatting will the drives appear so I can get the Device numbers etc so I can begin the burn in process?

My equipment is as listed below:

Motherboard: Supermicro X9dri-F
Processors: Intel Xeon E5-2650 (2)
Ram: HYNIX 32GB DDR3 HMT31GR7BFR4C-H9 (ECC)
Backplane: BPN SAS-846EL1
HBA: Dell H310 (LSI-9211-8i) Flashed to I.T. mode

 

[sretalla]

I noticed the drives can be formatted through the HBA utility. Do the drives need to be formatted?

Not by the HBA. TrueNAS/ZFS will take care of that.

After formatting will the drives appear so I can get the Device numbers etc so I can begin the burn in process?

You shouldn't need formatting to see the drives, they will be presented as daX to /dev/

You can also see in dmesg how they are being seen.