I just got a RMS25KB080 myself, but not recognized. I tried it in X79 ASUS Rampage IV Extreme, X58 ASUS P6T, and X58 Gigabyte G1.Guerrilla. None of them detected it. I used SAS2FLSH and Megarec from SAS2108 collection of files someone posted some time back (my understanding is that those should at least detect the controller). In windows device manager, I can only see it as an unknown device. Tried all various PCI-E slots, tried disabling various on-board storage controllers. Maybe the card simply has no hope of working with non-server motherboards?
Yeah, i would like to use a 2308 set of files, but dont know where to get them. I searched all over the place, but could not find any. Intel's downloads section only has drivers and web management utility. But i would hope that even the older megarec/sas2flash would detect a 2308-based controller. The fact that i get no bios (nothing on Ctrl+C) and unknown device in windows suggests that tihs is a no-go.You should be using the SAS 2308 controller (see http://ark.intel.com/products/60288/Intel-Integrated-RAID-Module-RMS25KB080) BIOS for that one just in case.
Really frustrating that so many motherboards still do not work with RAID cards.
From what I understand, many vendors just test basic cards, NICs and GPUs in consumer/ gamer motherboards. With that being said, you would hope that compatibility would be better in 2012.
Hmm may I ask why you suggest that 2108 and 2208 would be better than 2308 for RAID0? I figured that those controllers with RoC's are sort-of useless for RAID0, since there are no parity calculations required in RAID0. In fact, I thought they might be worse than a 2308-based HBA because of on-board cache adding latency.mobilenvidia will likely have a SAS2308 link since he is the BIOS/ fw/ flashing guru.
SAS 2208 controllers can be PCIe 2.0 or PCIe 3.0.
SAS 2018 and SAS 2208 will likely be a bit better for RAID 0.
Yes, same here. I will wait to hear of your experience with the replacement before sending mine back. Please post your results. Thank you.Hmm, getting my raidcard back tomorrow, it got replaced. It was not working either, hope the new one will
Btw was there is sticker on ESD bag on yours aswell, saying " this raid controller is designed for use in Xeon E-series servers,
the controller will not work on non intel serverboards or desktop boards"?
Keep us posted. I would think Intel E-series is something like Intel Xeon E3 or Xeon E5 but I may be incorrect.Hmm, getting my raidcard back tomorrow, it got replaced. It was not working either, hope the new one will
Btw was there is sticker on ESD bag on yours aswell, saying " this raid controller is designed for use in Xeon E-series servers,
the controller will not work on non intel serverboards or desktop boards"?
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