Hi!
Long time lurker here :)
My Atom-based motherboard recently died so I felt it's time to step it up a notch..
So I went ahead and bought following hardware for my new FreeNAS build (I already have 8pcs WD Red 6TB from my now dead FreeNAS server that I moved over to the new machine):
Motherboard: Supermicro X11SDV-4C-TP8F
Chassis: Supermicro 826BE1C-R920LPB
RAM: 64GB Samsung ECC DDR4
Other: 2pc Internal Mini SAS HD SFF-8643 to SFF-8643 Cable from 10Gtek (see https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01DCYI9QM)
I've connected above cables from motherboard directly to backplane of the chassis (backplane model: BPN-SAS3-826EL1), specifically to PRI-J1 and PRI-J2 contacts.
Having booted up no disks are detected, neither in BIOS not FreeNAS, at all and no lights on hot swap bays are light! I've tried to find a passthough setting in BIOS but I was not able to find it... Does this mean I will need to purchase a SAS3 HBA to connect to backplane since connecting SFF-8643 from motherboard ports does not seem to work!?
Long time lurker here :)
My Atom-based motherboard recently died so I felt it's time to step it up a notch..
So I went ahead and bought following hardware for my new FreeNAS build (I already have 8pcs WD Red 6TB from my now dead FreeNAS server that I moved over to the new machine):
Motherboard: Supermicro X11SDV-4C-TP8F
Chassis: Supermicro 826BE1C-R920LPB
RAM: 64GB Samsung ECC DDR4
Other: 2pc Internal Mini SAS HD SFF-8643 to SFF-8643 Cable from 10Gtek (see https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01DCYI9QM)
I've connected above cables from motherboard directly to backplane of the chassis (backplane model: BPN-SAS3-826EL1), specifically to PRI-J1 and PRI-J2 contacts.
Having booted up no disks are detected, neither in BIOS not FreeNAS, at all and no lights on hot swap bays are light! I've tried to find a passthough setting in BIOS but I was not able to find it... Does this mean I will need to purchase a SAS3 HBA to connect to backplane since connecting SFF-8643 from motherboard ports does not seem to work!?