I recently bought an LSI 9400-16i for my server, installed it and ran up truenas (which had been using motherboard and basic pcie sata cards) but all ok.
To my consternation it essentially failed to boot into the kernel: lots of bus resets, failure to connect to disks and general mayhem. Removing the card and reinstating the previous sata controller connections and order was restored.
The system is a P8Z68 MB with i7 4790K (not OCd), 12GB DDR3 mem, and the LSI card was in what would normally be the graphics card pcie slot. The other pcie slots had a TPLink 10/5/2.5G ethernet card and a radeon 54-series graphcs card. While the LSI card is PCIe Gen3 capable but the MB is only PCIe Gen2, I would expect it to derate gracefully to Gen2 x8... yes?
The card was bought as being 'in IT mode' and it does detect all the drives in its own bios screen, and the UEFI bios on the MB also sees them. 'lspci -vv' reports the card as I would expect and without complaints.
Is there something I've forgotten or is this a faulty card that I should talk to the seller about?
To my consternation it essentially failed to boot into the kernel: lots of bus resets, failure to connect to disks and general mayhem. Removing the card and reinstating the previous sata controller connections and order was restored.
The system is a P8Z68 MB with i7 4790K (not OCd), 12GB DDR3 mem, and the LSI card was in what would normally be the graphics card pcie slot. The other pcie slots had a TPLink 10/5/2.5G ethernet card and a radeon 54-series graphcs card. While the LSI card is PCIe Gen3 capable but the MB is only PCIe Gen2, I would expect it to derate gracefully to Gen2 x8... yes?
The card was bought as being 'in IT mode' and it does detect all the drives in its own bios screen, and the UEFI bios on the MB also sees them. 'lspci -vv' reports the card as I would expect and without complaints.
Is there something I've forgotten or is this a faulty card that I should talk to the seller about?