ASRock ROMED8-2T SATA Connection Problem

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RolloZ170

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My board came with one miniSAS HD to 4x SATA cable and one OCuLink to 4x SATA cable.
faulty packaging.

1.1 Package Contents
• ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T / ROMED8-NL Motherboard (ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 9.6-in, 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm)
• Quick Installation Guide
• 1 x I/O Shield
• 2 x Mini SAS HD to 4*SATA Cables (60cm)
 
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Mithor

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Thanks for your quick responses.

Sitting with approx $1000 worth of new SAS HDDs I cannot use with this motherboard, I decided to search for a controller card to insert into the motherboard to be able to attach the HDDs using the provided cable and found this:

LSI MegaRAID SAS 9341-4i (LSI00419) PCI-Express 3.0 x8 SATA / SAS High Performance Four-Port 12Gb/s RAID Controller (Single Pack) - Newegg.com

Could it work? Is it possible to attach one, two or more drives NOT in a raid configuration.

Thanks again for your help.
 

Mithor

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Finally I got my SAS drives to wake up, but I had to purchase a HBA card with a SAS controller and another cable with a MiniSASHD(SFF-8643) to four SAS(SFF-8482) connectors.

My conclusion about the provided cable for attaching SATA drives is:
1. It was missleading - having SAS connectors(SFF-8482) on the cable
2. It was useless - since there are no adapters available that makes it possible to attach SATA drives to the SAS connectors(SFF-8482)

Lesson learned: what you see is not what you get you must rtfm first.
 

RolloZ170

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SATA drives fit on that connector. SATA works on SAS controller but no a SAS drive on SATA controller.
put the cable on the MiniSASHD of the romed8 and connect a SATA drive on it.