Well I took one of the other systems offline this morning and tested the card in it. Either with or without the cache attached the card is not seen at boot at all, and not listed with lspci.
I guess I'll toss it in my pile of "questionable" hardware - which unfortunately is quite big.
Interesting behavior. With those 2 pins masked, and the cache module attached, there is no boot message from the card; the system boots normally but the card is not seen at all by the kernel. A lspci does not show it. It's like the card was not even present. The lights on the card blink as...
Interesting. A H240 happens to be the card that I normally use in the system I'm testing with, and it works fine without any BIOS tricks. In fact I just looked, I don't have an option in the BIOS to disable card boot ROMs.
I'm trying to make this P410 work, but it behaves strangely. I must say I'm not using HP hardware to test it, but rather a Dell motherboard.
When I use the card with the cache module and battery attached, it gives me a failure message and doesn't go any further. The boot does not complete...
It's possible. I'm not saying that my findings above will apply to any other brand, but if it fails then maybe it can serve as a guide as to what to try.
To sum up, so far working but with no access to WebBIOS: LSI 92804i4e (no tricks needed, worked straight away), and M5015 but only after it...
MSI X570 Gaming Edge WiFi: MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI
When I have time I should try to flash one of the D2616 cards to 9260 as well and see if that makes it work.
another quick update: indeed, a M5015 flashed to 9260-8i works in this motherboard. Again there is no POST message and no access to webBIOS but it does configure normally in MSM. It's interesting that with the IBM firmware the card wouldn't work at all. I used version 12.15 of the LSI firmware...
Actually, I have news much sooner than I thought. I went again through my boxes of server parts, and found one card which I had not tried: a LSI 9280-4e4i. I didn't have that much hope for it since it's the same chipset as the M5015, and that one failed... But the 9280 did not block booting...
Oh, ok. I think otherwise, a H1110 with a SAS expander would work as well, because the expander doesn't need to be inserted in a slot - I use one outside of any case, powered through one of these thingies:
It only needs power connected to it.
The IBM H1110 is very short, but it only supports 4 drives.
On the other hand, it's only using a PCIex4 connector, so if you have 2 of those available you could use 2 cards.
Or you could use a SAS expander - which does not necessarily have to go inside the case. Or it can go inside the case...
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