RaidPirate
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Hi,
Just recieved a HBA from eBay. I can't get it to detect any drives. I'm not super familiar with FreeNAS, but I have also tried a few things using a Debian live USB.
Here's what I've tried:
Plugged in all 6 of my new Toshiba HDDs, booted system, and no disks except ata0 (FreeNAS OS drive) are seen.
This is across 2 SAS to SATA cables. Tried swapping cables around. Unlikely that they are both defecive? But possible? These are new cables manufactured by Silverstone.
Rebooted system, checked that HBA shows up after BIOS (it does) enter SAS bios util (CTRL-C) and check drives - no devices found.
Unplugged all drives from power and SATA. Connect single drive, repeat, no difference.
Rebooted again, this time trying a WD SSD instead of HDD. Again, could not detect this SSD with either HBA BIOS util or FreeNAS OS.
Rebooted to Debian live system. Tried both HDDs and SSDs. lspci shows the HBA. dkms shows that "mpt3sas" (not "mpt2sas" ?) driver is loaded. No errors as far as I can tell.
Tried lsscsi - no drives.
I know the SSD is working. It works with a USB to Sata adapter, and also works with a native MB sata port. Same situation regarding the HDDs.
I'm kind of out of ideas as this point. What else should I check in software/hardware?
Just recieved a HBA from eBay. I can't get it to detect any drives. I'm not super familiar with FreeNAS, but I have also tried a few things using a Debian live USB.
Here's what I've tried:
Plugged in all 6 of my new Toshiba HDDs, booted system, and no disks except ata0 (FreeNAS OS drive) are seen.
This is across 2 SAS to SATA cables. Tried swapping cables around. Unlikely that they are both defecive? But possible? These are new cables manufactured by Silverstone.
Rebooted system, checked that HBA shows up after BIOS (it does) enter SAS bios util (CTRL-C) and check drives - no devices found.
Unplugged all drives from power and SATA. Connect single drive, repeat, no difference.
Rebooted again, this time trying a WD SSD instead of HDD. Again, could not detect this SSD with either HBA BIOS util or FreeNAS OS.
Rebooted to Debian live system. Tried both HDDs and SSDs. lspci shows the HBA. dkms shows that "mpt3sas" (not "mpt2sas" ?) driver is loaded. No errors as far as I can tell.
Tried lsscsi - no drives.
I know the SSD is working. It works with a USB to Sata adapter, and also works with a native MB sata port. Same situation regarding the HDDs.
I'm kind of out of ideas as this point. What else should I check in software/hardware?