Help with SAS/SATA card

ANDARIAL · 27 Jun 2015 at 15:57

This is a link to page of card in question
http://www.lsi.com/products/raid-controllers/pages/megaraid-sas-9240-8i.aspx#tab/tab3
Preparing to upgrade my htpc/server system and am trying out the above card
Card shows a 4TB sata hdd at bios but one it boots into windows the card has an error and won`t start(with a smaller hdd 1.5TB it starts fine)

Would I be correct in assuming that this card won`t accept hdds of 4TB in size

Yamahahahahaha · 27 Jun 2015 at 17:55

Is the firmware up to date?

ace-rimmer · 27 Jun 2015 at 18:49

http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public...on Files/MegaRAID_Entry_Interop_List_SAS2.pdf

dunno if that helps

ANDARIAL · 27 Jun 2015 at 21:58

Yamahahahahaha said:
Is the firmware up to date?

Yup updated that today when i installed the card

ace-rimmer said:
http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/RAID%20Controllers/RAID%20Controllers%20Common%20Files/MegaRAID_Entry_Interop_List_SAS2.pdf

dunno if that helps

Did not find that when i searched earlier.Thanks
Looks like most of my hdds are not compatible

Most are WD reds,gutted
Will have to try them all one at a time to see which ones work,not hopeful though as most are intelipower 5900 rpm type and that list is mostly 7200 rpm

tribz · 29 Jun 2015 at 19:47

What version of windows and how big is the partition that windows is installed on?

spoffle · 29 Jun 2015 at 19:59

I've got an LSI 9650se-12ml, and it supports my 5TB drives, so I doubt your one that has 6GB/s ports on it would top out at 4TB. I couldn't actually get any drives to show up at all initially, which lead me to think the card was faulty, but I had a play with its settings (a prompt comes up to access its settings before boot).

I'm not experienced with this sort of hardware, but I'm assuming that drives won't show up under normal circumstances until you build a RAID array with them. So in the settings I enabled a mode called "passthrough", after which the drives connected to the card showed up in Windows.

ANDARIAL · 29 Jun 2015 at 22:18

tribz said:
What version of windows and how big is the partition that windows is installed on?

W7 but that is installed on a ssd connected to the mobo

ANDARIAL · 29 Jun 2015 at 22:20

ANDARIAL said:
W7 but that is installed on a ssd connected to the mobo

So far only 2 tb drives that I have are recognised.that pdf that was linked to earlier seemsto indicate that this card is very picky about which drives will work

ace-rimmer · 30 Jun 2015 at 08:29

i think most raid cards have a compatibility chart, though just because its not on there doesn't mean it wont work, it may mean they've never tested it, though in this case you mite be unlucky.

ANDARIAL · 30 Jun 2015 at 16:02

Yeah would have expected 4TB WD reds to work
Anyway bought a 4 port sata card to try,if it works will get another to get 8 ports and put this card on the MM i think
Too much faffing about for me