Hi folks,
I appear to be having the same issue as
@ClintE had here
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/hp-sas-expander-wiki.146/page-4#post-219766 - every reboot, I'll get some random subset of drives appear, anywhere between 1 and 6 drives. (I have 9 installed). If I hotplug the drives, they all show up. I also happen to have a Dell Perc H310, if I swap the LSI 9207-8i out for the H310, everything works fine.
I tried to get into the configuration for the card, but my motherboard (Asus PRIME B650M) doesn't support Legacy CSM unless you have a discrete GPU, which I do not. I plugged the card into another machine and increased anything I could find that was to do with timeout, swapped it back, but I still get a random subset of drives every boot. Would the settings on the LSI card persist after moving the card between machines?
I am wondering if a firmware update on the HP Expander would be a good idea, according to lsscsi I'm running 2.06 on the expander. I have seen 2.10 linked earlier, but I do not know how to identify which firmware I need. My card has various numbers on it:
HP 4K10B5
Regulator model number: HSTNM-B017
PCA P/N: 468405-002
SP#487738-001, PBCQA0ARHZN1BG, AS#468405-002
64WWN50014380116B9AA5
The eBay listing called it "HP 487738-001 24-Bay PCI Express x8 3Gb SAS Expander Card 468405-002 CV1025"
But none of these seem to correlate to any of the numbers starting with CP on the HP website.
So, tl;dr, 3 questions:
1. Do settings on the LSI persist when moving the card between machines?
2. Any ideas resolving the random drives not showing up issue?
3. How do I find out which firmware my card needs?
Thanks