SOLVED Sgpio enclosure not creating drive devices

[elrodvt]

First I'm new to this so pardon dumb questions..

I have a supermicro a2sdi-4c-hnlf board.
I have a Silverstone cs381 case with 2 enclosures.
One enclosure is connected via the mini sas on the board to mini sas on the drive cage.
The other is connected via a reverse breakout of enclosure mini sas to 4 sata ports.

The enclosures seem to be recognized ok and are aware drives are installed. However no disk devices are created. Only /dev/enc0 and enc1 are created. How do I get the drive devices to be recognized?
I don't seem to see them in the bios either so this may be a lower level issue?

Thanks!

root@freenas[~]# getencstat -v /dev/ses1 /dev/ses1: Enclosure Status <OK>
Element 0x0: Array Device Slot, status: Unsupported (0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00), descriptor: 'Drive Slots' Element 0x1: Array Device Slot, status: Unknown (0x06 0x00 0x00 0x00), descriptor: 'Slot 00'
Element 0x2: Array Device Slot, status: Unknown (0x06 0x00 0x00 0x00), descriptor: 'Slot 01' Element 0x3: Array Device Slot, status: Unknown (0x06 0x00 0x00 0x00), descriptor: 'Slot 02'
Element 0x4: Array Device Slot, status: Unknown (0x06 0x00 0x00 0x00), descriptor: 'Slot 03' Element 0x5: Array Device Slot, status: Unknown (0x06 0x00 0x00 0x00), descriptor: 'Slot 04'
Element 0x6: Array Device Slot, status: Not Installed (0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00), descriptor: 'Slot 05' Element 0x7: Array Device Slot, status: Not Installed (0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00), descriptor: 'Slot 06'

 

[Samuel Tai]

You're asking the breakout cable to go the wrong way. You need a SAS HBA flashed to IT mode to connect to the enclosures.

 

[elrodvt]

Hi, Why do you say the breakout goes the wrong way? The host is 4 sata and the target mini sas. That's a reverse breakout as I understand it?
Regarding the hba are you saying the controller on the motherboard doesn't support enclosures? I thought it considered them as 4 sata drives.

 

[Samuel Tai]

The breakout only goes SAS->SATA, because SAS can drive SATA drives. It can't go the other way, because SATA can't drive SAS drives.

 

[elrodvt]

Ok, do you know why the sas to sas connector doesn't have drives created? I don't know how to put the controller in IT mode.

 

[elrodvt]

What a dummy. The drives weren't plugged in all the way.