I purchased a Supermicro 825-7 Chassis part number 6027R-TRF. It has a X9DRi mother board. This chassis was configured utilizing all 6 of the available motherboard SATA ports connected to 6 of the 8 backplane SATA connectors. The board also has an SCU that has a single mini-SAS connector supporting 4 SATA drives. I reconfigured the system to use all 8 of the SATA drive slots by adding a Mini-SAS to 4 SATA cable and connecting them to the 2 previously unused SATA connectors and 2 other drives slots. 4 of the motherboard SATA connectors are connected to 4 of the backplane SATA connectors. One Motherboard SATA is connected to the boot SSD and the other to the DVD. That uses all 6 SATA ports and all of the Mini-SAS connectors (4 SATA)
The problem is the red LED on two drives that were not originally connected flash constantly. They work just fine but they flash. The bios has options to control spinup and hotswap on only six drives. There is no Bios option I can find to expand to 8. I cannot find any Bios updates.
I hope someone that had similar experience can help me out will some advice. (besides ignoring the flashing
6027R-TRF - https://www.supermicro.com/QuickRefs/superserver/2U/QRG-1340.pdf
X9DRi - https://www.manua.ls/supermicro/x9dri-ln4f+/manual
Solution found:
After writing the OP I decided to try a different Bios setting. Both RAID and AHCI modes of BIOS setup only list 6 drives. Choosing IDE mode and choosing Enhanced for controller 0 and 1 eliminates the blinking red LED. Both AHCI and RAID mode have a Hot Swap option per drive. Since I did not pick those options, is hotswap supported? I probably won't do that as pulling the wrong drive can have a cascade effect on the data. But it would be good to know. Manual does not say.
The problem is the red LED on two drives that were not originally connected flash constantly. They work just fine but they flash. The bios has options to control spinup and hotswap on only six drives. There is no Bios option I can find to expand to 8. I cannot find any Bios updates.
I hope someone that had similar experience can help me out will some advice. (besides ignoring the flashing
6027R-TRF - https://www.supermicro.com/QuickRefs/superserver/2U/QRG-1340.pdf
X9DRi - https://www.manua.ls/supermicro/x9dri-ln4f+/manual
Solution found:
After writing the OP I decided to try a different Bios setting. Both RAID and AHCI modes of BIOS setup only list 6 drives. Choosing IDE mode and choosing Enhanced for controller 0 and 1 eliminates the blinking red LED. Both AHCI and RAID mode have a Hot Swap option per drive. Since I did not pick those options, is hotswap supported? I probably won't do that as pulling the wrong drive can have a cascade effect on the data. But it would be good to know. Manual does not say.
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