SAS to 4 times SATA
I'm no expert, but can you do that? Are they SAS or SATA drives? Do they show up if you connect the drives or backplane directly to the motherboard?
SAS to 4 times SATA
I'm no expert, but can you do that? Are they SAS or SATA drives? Do they show up if you connect the drives or backplane directly to the motherboard?
Jeah, the drives work confirmed. The drives are sata, the backplane has sas out which splits. The manufacturer explicitly says this works. Sooo i gues? Like you I am no expert and just do as i'm told :')
Hmm. Like @ganeshaix said, maybe the cable, or the backplane? Does it work if you connect the drives directly to the card?
One thing to note about SAS to sata breakout cables is that they are directional. You need a reverse breakout cable to make that work.
Good to know! This might be it. I thought SFF-8087 was the spec of the cable, but its the connector!
Ordered a new cable that was the exacg model from intertech that they recommended. I'll let you guys know how it went.
Jeah! Cable fixed it!
Might be a SAS driver issue. Have you checked if the drives show up on a live distro, something more current, like let's say Void or anything that has a 6.x kernel?
I've had issues like this with older Marvel SCSI controllers, some of them don't have open source drivers for Linux, and the ones provided by the manufacturer (if there are any) are so old that you'd have to be runnig kernel 2.x in order for them to work. I just gave up in the end, disabled the SCSI controller in BIOS and just used the rigs on IDE/SATA.
Hey thanks!
This is a great idea! I'll try it this weekend. I'll let you know.