SAS controller read/write to disks once every second?

[MrCalvin]

I have a Fujitsu CP400i x8 SAS controller (LSI SAS3008 based).
As soon the controller has initialized (when the PC's BIOS/UEFI initialize) I can hear the disks "clicks" (heads make a move) once every second.
So this is not a driver or OS issue, this is on the controller level.
I have SATA disks connected. All the disks connected do this presumably read/write every second.
I've tried the following:
-both WD and Seagate disks.
-tried all ports.
-1, 2 and 6 disk connected.
-configured in RAID and completely unused.
-changed power-down and link-speed on controller
-reset the controller settings to default.

The only thing stopping this is to disable the controller ROM, but then I cannot not use the controller and disks either of cause.

Have anyone experience something similar?

I'll tried to find some different firmwares and try them out.

 

[MrCalvin]

Hmmm.....turned off the PC and PSU, reset bios/rom on motherboard and controller, cleared controller config and cleared virtual disks config ....and now it seems to work.
Rather sensitive setup....I'll hope it last!

 

[Sleepy3103]

That is weird. Did you find out what was causing it to do that?

 

[MrCalvin]

I resat everything. Never happened since