Case: Chenbro RM23612 (12 Port 12Gb/s mini-SAS backplane)
Motherboard: SuperMicro X11SSH-CTF (2x SAS 12Gbps onboard / 7x SATA)
This Motherboard got M2 connector but it only supports booting from NVMe card and not SATA M2. (First issue I figured out/thanks to SuperMicro support for clearing this out)
So, now I'm running FreeNAS from USB (USB to M2 SATA Converter).
The problem I now have is with SAS bays that I connected to onboard sata connectors. (My case backplane requires 3x MiniSAS)
I didn't wanted to use PCI Express expansion slots because there limited on this motherboard.
I used SuperMicro cable CBL-SAST-0556, which converts Mini-SAS into 4 SATA connectors + SGPIO cable.
I connected this cable to motherboard and backplane of the case.
But none of the disks that I insert SAS or SATA do work in those slots.
The other slots that are connected to the onboard SAS controller do work fine.
Could it be that the conversion isn't working with the 12Gb/s backplane and only work when this is 6Gb/s because SATA is only 6Gb/s?
Thanks!
Motherboard: SuperMicro X11SSH-CTF (2x SAS 12Gbps onboard / 7x SATA)
This Motherboard got M2 connector but it only supports booting from NVMe card and not SATA M2. (First issue I figured out/thanks to SuperMicro support for clearing this out)
So, now I'm running FreeNAS from USB (USB to M2 SATA Converter).
The problem I now have is with SAS bays that I connected to onboard sata connectors. (My case backplane requires 3x MiniSAS)
I didn't wanted to use PCI Express expansion slots because there limited on this motherboard.
I used SuperMicro cable CBL-SAST-0556, which converts Mini-SAS into 4 SATA connectors + SGPIO cable.
I connected this cable to motherboard and backplane of the case.
But none of the disks that I insert SAS or SATA do work in those slots.
The other slots that are connected to the onboard SAS controller do work fine.
Could it be that the conversion isn't working with the 12Gb/s backplane and only work when this is 6Gb/s because SATA is only 6Gb/s?
Thanks!