HBA card fails to connect in PCIe port.
HBA card fails to connect in PCIe port.
Hello, my name is Silas. I'm facing a bit of trouble with my NAS setup. Back in the day, I bought a used server motherboard from eBay when I was still a student. Now I'm upgrading storage by adding several hard drives, so I ordered four 3TB IBM SAS drives from eBay (they spun after modifying the SATA cable) and later added an HBA LSI1078 SAS controller to use them. However, when I installed the card on my motherboard, I tried many slots but none appeared in ServerView (iRMC), and neither TrueNAS nor Windows showed any drives. I thought maybe someone could assist me. My hardware includes a Fujitsu D3239 S2 board, an HBA LSI1078 SAS controller, an Xeon E3-1275v3 32GB DDR3 ECC RAM, a 500W 80+Gold PSU, and a 4x3TB IBM 39U3721. I have an attachment explaining the server view setup. Thanks for reading all of this.
First off, that's an ancient HBA. LSI 2000-series or 3000-series are usually just as cheap and a lot newer. If it's not appearing anywhere (check using lspci in TrueNAS), it's probably dead.