Help needed with RocketRaid 2680

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Hello all,



I recently came into possesion of 8 x 1TB WD disks from a dell MD3000 drive library, I got myself a RR 2680 but entering bios it doesn't show any disks.

The Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H with primary OS as 2012 R2 on a stand alone 500GB drive (was going to switch to 2x250GB in raid1 once the Raid was setup), RocketRaid shows on boot prompting for ctrl+h but no disks show as attached, i'v tried plugging in a spare 250GB i have and it didn't see that either.


The card is in a X4 slot but i have tried it in a X16 slot with the jumpers in both 1x and 4x setting, is there a way to reset the bios on this card as it was bought second hand?


From the OS i have installed all the latest drivers and software but again cannot see the disks, not even in disk managment.

I've also gone down the route of connecting the disks 1 by 1 to a seperate machine test they work which they do.

Cheers for any help chaps.
 
Thanks for the reply, please see response below:-

*I believe it uses 1.2 but i will reflash tonight.
*Only other machine i have is my main desktop (990FX), but as it powers and i get the raid screen i wouldn't have thought so but i'm unfamiliar with these cards.
*The cables i'm using are 3ware cbl sff8087ocr 05m mini sas to sata fanout reverse cable. bought 2 brand new.
*Cables have all been reseated many times lol
*The disks should be ok as they all pick up via docking station in other PC.
*I bought a new 500W psu to deal with it but even if i only 2 disks attached i get same result.
*As you said unlikely but i dunno.
*They were part of a 26TB raid5 array, will format e: /fs:NTFS /p:2 be enough or do you suggest any programs?

Thanks in advance.
 
Ah it was just one of the cables that was sitting about so i really need the forward ones then?

3Ware CBL-SFF8087OCF-06M Mini-SAS to SATA fanout cable, forward, 0.6 Meters
 
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