the specific card i got is some inspur thing, i flashed it to the latest bios and seems to work fine in my older 4790k machine. the issue starts to pop up when i put it into my b760 gaming plus msi board, for some reason i cant see or access the lsi rom menu at all, no matter what settings i used. i got as far as resetting everything and still nothing has worked.
booting into windows only shows me one sata ssd i connected to the lsi 3008 and completly ignores the optical drives i have it connected to it.
Never really managed to get optical drives working on anything other than motherboard directly myself. I have nothing useful to add, but am curious.
Was this a bios flash or a firmware flash? If hba bios I could see wrong version/vendor profile/whatever causing issues similar to what you mentioned.
i think its some 16.000.12 something firmware. i never bothered to update the bios stuff since it seemed to work fine in the 4790k pc inside of its config util. i might try that once i get time.
for now i have my optical drives connected to sata and the rest of the platter and ssd drives on my hba.
for some reason the next day everything perfectly works fine. computers are weird.
in my hypothesis, my 3008 lsi card only support ata and not atapi (which optical drives use)
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When you flashed, did you flash both the bios rom AND the UEFI rom?
Just realized you wrote ATAPI and not SATA. No. Optical drives typically DO NOT work with HBAs. There are rare exceptions.
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the card already came with a older IT firmware, i simply updated it to the latest one that is avaliable.
When you want to flash these cards there are three files to flash.
The firmware for the card itself, plus the option rom bios, and the uefi option rom.
The command to flash all 3 at once is similar to: where the bin is the firmware, the sas3.rom is the legacy BIOS option rom file, and the x64 is the UEFI option rom file..
sas3flash.efi -f SAS9300_8i_IT.bin -b mptsas3.rom -b mpt3x64.rom
Leaving out one or both of those roms won’t keep the card from working, but could prevent you from configuring the card in BIOS or through the CTRL-C option config utility
for some reason the next day everything perfectly works fine. computers are weird.
in my hypothesis, my 3008 lsi card only support ata and not atapi (which optical drives use)
i was able to access it just fine now, but i dont think i need to flash the UEFI and BIOS roms, since those are already flashed, the card simply came with a older IT firmware and i updated it. i don’t think they are “newer” UEFI and BIOS roms, unless im wrong. i heard some sas 2008 cards support optical drives, but im not sure.
Instead of us stumbling around in the dark, could you please post the output of:
sudo sas3flash -list
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