TrueNAS 12.0-U1.1 LSI 9400-16i not detecting drives

[Samuel Tai]

Damn cheap Chinese fake/knock-offs. I've always had good experiences with StarTech:

Internal Mini-SAS to SATA Cable - SFF-8643 to 4x SATA - 1 m

Connect a SAS controller to four SATA drives

www.startech.com

These are also available from Amazon:

Amazon.com

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Supermicro branded cables are also quite good in my experience.

 

[cyrus104]

Thanks a bunch for the support. I'll go ahead and get some of the Starteck because I'll actually be able to get them tomorrow.

I have several other items and AOC from Supermicro that have all been solid so I'll probably look at those in the future too.

 

[jgreco]

Internal HD Mini SAS Cable, #CS0034

CableCreation Focus to the Ideal Design of All of Our Quality Cables CableCreation is not Only a Brand But Also a Creative Team With Own Factory manufacturing Side 1: Mini SAS (SFF-8643) Male with Latch Side 2: 4x SATA Female Port Cable: 30AWG Cable Length:0.5M Cable Color: Black+Blue SFF-8643 C...

www.cablecreation.com

Those look like good honest Aliexpress sourced generic SAS cables to me. I buy SFF8087's that look just like that now and then, and see a small failure rate. They're cheap enough that you can just throw away the ones that don't work.

 

[cyrus104]

I can confirm that I swap the cables with some startech cables and all drives are picked up without issues.

Thanks everyone for the troubleshooting!