LSI SAS 9210-8i SAS controller and Supermicro X9SCM-F-O

[SunnyG]

Hello Experts,

I am hoping someone might be able to help me out here.

I have a Supermicro X9SCM-F-O motherboard. which I plan to install FreeNAS on, however I cannot seem to be able to get it to detect my LSI SAS 9210-8i SAS controller card.

I have tried all the PCI Express ports on the motherboard, but nothing see's it.

I know the LSI SAS 9210-8i SAS is good due to plugging it into an ASRock Motherboard the card is detected.

Any thoughts on why the Supermicro X9SCM-F-O motherboard is not detecting it?

 

[kdragon75]

Define, "cannot seem to be able to get it to detect". You don't see it in dmesg? lspci? You cant see the drives attached? Are you still 11.1U6?

 

[BigDave]

My thought is the PCIe slots are dead, have you tried another card that is known working (like maybe a network add-on card) in that X9 board?
Since the card tested good in the other motherboard, you must now assume
the X9 board is the problem. But as @kdragon75 has stated, you might try giving alot more detail before we can be more difinitive.

 

[SunnyG]

kdragon75 - Correct in if I run lspci, the card does not get listed, it also does not seem to be seen during boot, i'm not sure if there is a setting in the BIOS I might be missing for it to be detected, PCIe is set to enabled with Gen version set to Auto.

BigDave - I have confirmed that the slots are not dead, my PCIe NIC card is detected when inserted into the same slot.

 

[Johnnie Black]

Try resetting bios to defaults, if changed, some PCIe related settings can make controllers not detected

 

[BigDave]

I happen to run this same board, here are my bios settings in regards to PCI.
I'm happy to show you what I can, to help out. Just say the word...

Code:

root@freenas:~ # dmesg|grep mps0
mps0: <Avago Technologies (LSI) SAS2008> port *deleted* irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci2
mps0: Firmware: 20.00.07.00, Driver: 21.02.00.00-fbsd

 

[SunnyG]

Hi,

Thanks everyone for the help. it seems that the RAID card has stopped working completely, I tried installing it on the system where I know it was working but that system also is not detecting it.