Hello everybody as that's my very first post here, even though I read other post for a while.
I'm building a simple NAS on ASRock J4105B-ITX with IBM M1115 plugged into it. Unfortunately plugging it as-is causes that the motherboard doesn't boot. I tried it on some old machines I have access to: Fujitsu ESPRIMO C710 and some home-made PC on old ITX motherboard I don't even know the name. Fujitsu beeps several times and reboots in a loop, the other also does similarly, just without that beeping IIRC. I've already learnt that that's typical and I should tape pins B5 and B6, so I carefully done that with a small stripe of an isolating tape. But with those pins taped, none of the motherboards recognizes the card. They boot nicely, but the card is not visible anywhere. I checked BIOS/UEFI, I checked with lspci run on live Ubuntu 20.04.1. I also tried with sas2flash.efi -listall on ASRock under UEFI Shell started from an USB drive, which says that no LSI cards have been found.
I bought the card second-hand online. The seller claimed it's working, showing screens from Windows device manager as a proof, but one can't trust that, for sure. Maybe he has already tried flashing it to the IT mode and failed?
Is the card dead? If so - why does it block booting when pins are not taped? What else can I check?
Finally, a lame question - ASRock J4105B-ITX has 1 PCIe 2.0 x16 slot but only @2. Is IBM M1115, which is PCI Express 2.0 x8 , compatible with this slot? Even if so, will it handle with full (or at least decent) speed 5 x Seagate IronWolf 4TB attached to it?
I'm building a simple NAS on ASRock J4105B-ITX with IBM M1115 plugged into it. Unfortunately plugging it as-is causes that the motherboard doesn't boot. I tried it on some old machines I have access to: Fujitsu ESPRIMO C710 and some home-made PC on old ITX motherboard I don't even know the name. Fujitsu beeps several times and reboots in a loop, the other also does similarly, just without that beeping IIRC. I've already learnt that that's typical and I should tape pins B5 and B6, so I carefully done that with a small stripe of an isolating tape. But with those pins taped, none of the motherboards recognizes the card. They boot nicely, but the card is not visible anywhere. I checked BIOS/UEFI, I checked with lspci run on live Ubuntu 20.04.1. I also tried with sas2flash.efi -listall on ASRock under UEFI Shell started from an USB drive, which says that no LSI cards have been found.
I bought the card second-hand online. The seller claimed it's working, showing screens from Windows device manager as a proof, but one can't trust that, for sure. Maybe he has already tried flashing it to the IT mode and failed?
Is the card dead? If so - why does it block booting when pins are not taped? What else can I check?
Finally, a lame question - ASRock J4105B-ITX has 1 PCIe 2.0 x16 slot but only @2. Is IBM M1115, which is PCI Express 2.0 x8 , compatible with this slot? Even if so, will it handle with full (or at least decent) speed 5 x Seagate IronWolf 4TB attached to it?