IBM M5110 not seeing sata drives.

[BrianG]

Wondering if someone could help guide me down the right path. I have a IBM M5110 in a custom built computer which is using a Asus Z97-A board and running Windows 2012 R2. System seeing the controller just fine and I was able to update the firmware. My problem is it wont see the four 3TB SATA drives attached. I did put the card back in a IBM server and it sees the SAS drives just fine. Did I miss something really stupid or what? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.. Its been driving me crazy all day...

Using this cable to convert SAS to SATA -
StarTech Model SAS8087S4R50 - Newegg.com

From the controller....

MegaRAID Storage Manager 14.11.01.00 Profile Summary - Generated on Wed Jan 28 23:08:49 PST 2015
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SERVER---
Server IP: 192.168.251.18
Server Name: NAS01
OS name: Windows Server 2012
OS Version: 6.2
OS Architecture: x86_64
Driver Name: megasas2.sys
Driver Version: 6.706.06.00
Application Version: MegaRAID Storage Manager - 14.11.01.00

HARDWARE---
Controller: ServeRAID M5110(Bus 1,Dev 0,Domain 0)
Status: Optimal
Firmware Package Version:23.32.0-0017
Firmware Version: 3.440.25-4055
BBU: YES
Enclosure(s): 0
Drive(s): 0
Virtual Drive(s): 0

BBU---
BBU Type: CVPM02
BBU Status: Optimal

 

[andrewbedia]

try putting a sata drive in that ibm server. report back if it sees it or not. if it does, then you probably got a bad cable.

 

[Rain]

And you're sure you are using the exact cable listed to go from the controller to the drives? The cable you linked to is a reverse breakout cable; its meant to connect from a SFF8087 connector on a backplane to four SAS/SATA headers on a motherboard.

What you need is a forward breakout cable, meant for connecting drives directly to a controller. Take a look at the descriptions of both what you linked and this forward breakout cable (also by StarTech): StarTech Model SAS8087S450 19" (50cm) Serial Attached SCSI SAS Cable - SFF-8087 to 4x Latching SATA - Newegg.com

 

[BrianG]

WOW!!! I figured it had to be something really stupid I missed... I will pick up a couple of those cables.

Thanks,