ionistarda
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- Aug 13, 2021
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Hi All, I'm new to the world of hardware and hoping for some guidance on an issue I'm having connecting my motherboard to the backplane. I've tried a couple different configurations but can't get the HDDs to show up in the BIOS. Components:
Then I tried only plugging in the reverse breakout cable but still nothing. Should that have at least gotten 4 of the drives to show up? (semi-related question that has been bothering me - how does the backplane know which 4 drives map to the 4 SATA connections through the breakout cable?)
My last attempt was to muck around in the BIOS settings and enable the "spin up" setting for I-SATA[0-3]. Unclear what that setting does and I can hear the drives spinning even with it disabled but with it turned on. I still don't see the drives in the BIOS but when I boot TrueNAS, it stuck with a repeating message
Do I just need an HBA to make this work? Or is there some other cabling config that would work? Am I just a noob for assuming that 12 ports on the motherboard + 12 bays in the chassis would be simple to connect?
- motherboard: Supermicro A2SDi-8C-HLN4F intel Atom SoC
- backplane: Supermicro BPN-SAS3-826EL1-N4 (SuperChassis LA26E1C4-R609LP)
- cables:
- HDDs: Seagate Ironwolf Pro 10TB
Then I tried only plugging in the reverse breakout cable but still nothing. Should that have at least gotten 4 of the drives to show up? (semi-related question that has been bothering me - how does the backplane know which 4 drives map to the 4 SATA connections through the breakout cable?)
My last attempt was to muck around in the BIOS settings and enable the "spin up" setting for I-SATA[0-3]. Unclear what that setting does and I can hear the drives spinning even with it disabled but with it turned on. I still don't see the drives in the BIOS but when I boot TrueNAS, it stuck with a repeating message
(noperiph:achich11:0-1:ffffffff): rescan already queued
. Based on some other threads I've found, this message means there is a hardware problem. Would this imply that there is something wrong with the cable/backplane/drives/something else? Or is it just that I should keep that setting disabled?Do I just need an HBA to make this work? Or is there some other cabling config that would work? Am I just a noob for assuming that 12 ports on the motherboard + 12 bays in the chassis would be simple to connect?