My LSI sas 9207-8e Card is only showing 1 drive inside TrueNAS and after much tinkering, I think i might have a bad card
When I originally received the card it did not have any BIOS on it, so I thought that might have been the issue, however after installing BIOS the system takes forever to boot and the problem persists.
I do see the heartbeat LED
this is a screen shot of my sas2flash data for the card.
What cables are you using to attach the drives to the HBA and have you checked them. Have you checked the drives by connecting directly to motherboard? You need to tell us all the steps you have taken to come to your conclusion otherwise we are just guessing. We know nothing of your setup besides your LSI sas 9207-8e
SAS drives or SATA?
What drives specifically?
What MB?
If you change cables around does a different drive serial number get shown?
Yes, it could just as well be the drives. The 3v issue is a common cause for “can’t see the new drives” issues.
When that has been figured out don’t forget to update the firmware on that card, 16.00.00.00 is outdated. The 92xx series are typically on 20.00.07.00.
Thank you for your help
System is an OptiPlex 7070 w/ 32gb of Ram
Cable is a Mini SAS 26Pin (SFF-8088) Male to 4 SATA 7 Pin Female Cable to connect 4 1 terabyte hard drives to my 9207-8e card running v16 firmware
I unplugged all the hard drives and then systematically plugged in the P1 SATA connector to each HDD and rebooted TrueNas to verify all drives where recognized.
P1 - verify all drives working
ZKP07SRW Seagate
ZKP07SJ5 Seagate
WD-WMAY03981119 Western Digital
WD-WMAV50228766 Western Digital
unplugged P1, I then connected each of the remaining SATA connector to the first drive to verify they where working.
P2 verified
P3 verified
P4 verified
I would work on updating the firmware as @neofusion said above. It’s best to be on known good versions of the firmware.
