Installing TrueNAS Scale on Poweredge R510

TrueNAS General
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Hi,

I’m new to TrueNAS Scale.

I’m trying to install in on a 3.5" disk that is in bay 0 but everytime it boots I get No boot device available ?

I have replaced the H700 card with and LSI 9211-8i

Am I doing something wrong?

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Not familiar with bay 0 or that hardware, but is there a sata port available, natively, on the motherboard itself or are you connecting all the drives via that HBA? I would keep my boot drives on the built-in SATA.

Also, that 9211 is flashed to IT mode already, right?

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Yes it is :slight_smile:

I thought about an onboard SATA port but I can’t see where I should get the power from. So for now i’m stuck

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Well, you gotta split or splice the power intended for the DVD drive on that according to some forums. Or you could get a cheap m2 PCIe card and strap a small NVMe drive to it for boot media.

In addition, if it’s the more than 8 drives chassis, the sata connectors are disabled. Weird box.

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thanks, it’s the 12 bay :slight_smile:
so no DVD bay/drive

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This is all backplane, yes? Is there no SATA power you can use a splitter on? They work great.

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I can’t see any SATA power anywhere. and yes it’s all backplane.

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Pcie nvme is your best bet unless you’re just toying with it, and have a USB drive laying around.

Yeah yeah highly discouraged, I know guys. But not out of the question and easily migrated later.

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Could I I use something like an power theif

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If I can find the right wire?

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I can’t advise on this, but if the voltage and amperage matches and you feel lucky, you could try it, and a thumbdrive would still be safer and still dodgy.

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https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/poweredge-hddscsiraid/r510-12-bay-server-sata-bios-questions/647f1f62f4ccf8a8de2e7142

The SATA ports are disabled on the 12+2 versions of the R510

Your best bet is going to be a PCIE Card or a USB-SSD/NVME adapter. Preferably the former. Could also use a USB thumbdrive as mentioned but there’s been endless discussion on write-endurance and thermals, so YMMV.

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Thanks, If I have known this I would never have bough this dumb machine :smiley:

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Yeah we all step into traps from time to time. You get something with hidden issues. Maybe in enterprise land, having no sata ports with a disk shelf is no big deal. I call it a design flaw.