This isn't a FreeNAS issue, but since this chassis and motherboard seem to be used for FreeNAS installations I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.
I recently purchased this chassis: SUPERMICRO CSE-825TQ-563LPB Black 2U Rackmount Server Case 560W
and this motherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SRL-F Server Motherboard LGA 2011 R3
along with an appropriate Xeon CPU and 16G of RAM.
I also have 4 x 4TB HGST Deskstar NAS SATA3 hard drives that I want to use in it.
The entire system POSTs and I've even installed FreeNAS from/to USB thumb drives without problem.
However, the hard drives, installed in the hot-swap bays, aren't recognized even in the BIOS. The documentation with the chassis is pretty sparse, and there are a number of connectors on the backplane that I'm not familiar with.
All the documentation I've seen says that SAS and SATA drives are both supported in the chassis.
I currently have the two MOLEX power connectors from the power supply connected to the backplane, and I have a SATA cable from each of the first four (bottom row) drive bays going to the SATA ports on the motherboard. There were also a pair of cables with 8-pin connectors included with the chassis, and I've tried connecting these to the "sideband" ports on the backplane and to the first two "T-SGPIO" ports on the motherboard.
I suspect I'm just missing a backplane connection or maybe a BIOS configuration option, but I'm so far at a loss.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
I recently purchased this chassis: SUPERMICRO CSE-825TQ-563LPB Black 2U Rackmount Server Case 560W
and this motherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SRL-F Server Motherboard LGA 2011 R3
along with an appropriate Xeon CPU and 16G of RAM.
I also have 4 x 4TB HGST Deskstar NAS SATA3 hard drives that I want to use in it.
The entire system POSTs and I've even installed FreeNAS from/to USB thumb drives without problem.
However, the hard drives, installed in the hot-swap bays, aren't recognized even in the BIOS. The documentation with the chassis is pretty sparse, and there are a number of connectors on the backplane that I'm not familiar with.
All the documentation I've seen says that SAS and SATA drives are both supported in the chassis.
I currently have the two MOLEX power connectors from the power supply connected to the backplane, and I have a SATA cable from each of the first four (bottom row) drive bays going to the SATA ports on the motherboard. There were also a pair of cables with 8-pin connectors included with the chassis, and I've tried connecting these to the "sideband" ports on the backplane and to the first two "T-SGPIO" ports on the motherboard.
I suspect I'm just missing a backplane connection or maybe a BIOS configuration option, but I'm so far at a loss.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.