I bought three with yellow tabs so far, one 2u and two 4u and the 2u had a label on it still from the original system seller. It was Penguin Computing | Linux-based Enterprise Data Center, HPC & Cloud Solutions - Penguin Computing , this may be where some of these come from.
You have the basics few suggestions only,
1. JBOD card here is the better board I would say and available new on ebay. I liked the second revision a bit better than the first and I am currently using a few of the second revisions.
2. External HBA here cheaper than previous listed and still...
those look like the 45drives.com 4U chassis. 4U 45 Drives.com Bay SATA FREENAS RAID Storage server Intel i3-2100 3.10Ghz 8GB | eBay if they are close to the same hardware it looks like they are SATA II only. I like the robot though
As far as I know if the drive is SAS interface the light remains on to show connectivity and flashes with activity. With a SATA interface it will only show the activity by flashing. If i am incorrect someone please correct me on this. In my 825tq backplane chassis it works like that and I only...
That makes complete sense then if static can do that. I will try the stuff that LSI sent to me to load on the card. I will also try the suggestions above with the second card.
Well last night I booted the system up to try to get the information requested earlier and noticed that the cards showed up again so I decided to boot to dos and update the firmware. Well when I attempted to flash the first card the sas2flsh utility said the bios was corrupted but every flash I...
I did ssh into my UnRaid install first and the outcome was the same. I figured I would try in freenas to see if there is a different outcome and there wasn't. I will do this again in UnRaid tonight through a ssh terminal and post the outcome here that way I can follow your guidance directly...
3-5) so now it doesn't show in the OS when I booted in and typed the command it did nothing at all there was no output.
only thing that shows anything is
# lspci | grep SATA
and it only shows the on board SATA controller.
I tried this through putty into my freenas install
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