Expander card not recognized

[Th3RadMan]

I just finished building my new server with the following specs.

2X xeon 2670
Asus Z9PA-D8
64gb ddr3 ecc ram
intel X550-T2 NIC
Intel RES2SV240
LSI 9240-8i (flahed to 9211-8i it mode)
6 8TB WD white hdd's
6 10TB WD white hdd's

For some reason, the expander doesn't want to show my drives. From what I thought, it was plug and play... It at least has the plug part. I'm not sure if it's because I flashed my raid card to a hba, but it seems like it should just work. I have tried 2 different pci slots without any luck at all. Is there something to setting this card up to make it work?

 

[Johnnie Black]

From what I thought, it was plug and play...

It is, does it show up in camcontrol devlist?

 

[Th3RadMan]

It is, does it show up in camcontrol devlist?

Didn't see it anywhere. When I look at my disks list, I see the boot drives and the ssd's that are on the hba card, but every single drive (all of which are on the expander) are missing. I really hope I don't have a dead card.

 

[Johnnie Black]

It should show up similar to this:

<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A82> at scbus33 target 7 lun 0 (pass2,da1)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A82> at scbus33 target 8 lun 0 (pass3,da2)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68N 0A82> at scbus33 target 9 lun 0 (pass4,da3)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A82> at scbus33 target 10 lun 0 (pass5,da4)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68N 0A82> at scbus33 target 11 lun 0 (pass6,da5)
<ATA WDC WD40EFRX-68W 0A82> at scbus33 target 12 lun 0 (pass7,da6)
<ATA INTEL SSDSC2KG24 0100> at scbus33 target 13 lun 0 (pass8,da7)
<ATA INTEL SSDSC2KG24 0100> at scbus33 target 14 lun 0 (pass9,da8)
<Intel RES2SV240 0d00> at scbus33 target 15 lun 0 (ses0,pass10)

If it's not it's either dead, not powered, or not correctly connected to the HBA.

 

[Ericloewe]

Just to be clear, an SAS expander is not a PCIe card - the edge connector is provided only for power and mechanical mounting as an alternative to the molex socket.

If it is connected to the HBA via an SFF-8807 cable and has power you might have a dead expander.

While you're at it, see if it shows up in sesutil.