9211-8i HBA not detected after installation

MetalGeek · 19. Oktober 2019

Greetings,

I'm building my first OMV server. I'm using an LSI SAS 9211-8i HBA flashed to IT mode. BIOS version is 19. I have 2 WD RED 2TB drives attached. During the installation, OMV showed at least 1 of the drives attached as an installation option. I installed to my SSD and upon rebooting, Debain/OMV throws an MPT2SAS modprobe failed error and there re no dirves available under the drives menu in OMV.

Troubleshooting to this point:

The LSI card works fine. Ive been using it for three years and it was purchased new. I also flashed it IT mode when purchased.
The drives are visible in the LSI BIOS and the BIOS is asccessible upon boot.
I can boot the the server using Windows 10 and another linux distro (Rockstore wich is CentOS based) and both detect the controller/drives without issue.

I tried searching the forums and net but didn't come up with anything that gets me past the modprobe issue at bootup. All help is appreciated.

System hardware:

MSI AM1 MB
AMD Athlon 5150 CPU
4 GB RAM
PNY 120GB SSD
LSI 9211-8i
2 WD Red 2TB Drives

subzero79 · 20. Oktober 2019

Have you tried loading (modprobe drivername) after it boots? If it succeeds could be that the driver is not included in the initramfs file. So needs to be regenerated with the hba module.

MetalGeek · 20. Oktober 2019

I was able to load the driver using modprobe. At least it ran without an error. But the gui never showed any drives. I used the refresh button on the drive screen but none showed.

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subzero79 · 20. Oktober 2019

So in this file you can add the modules you want to include in your initramfs.

/etc/initramfs-tools/modules

add at the end you can type the controller module name

after that you need to regenerate the ramdisk

update-initramfs -u

Then reboot and hope for the best....

MetalGeek · 20. Oktober 2019

Zitat von subzero79

So in this file you can add the modules you want to include in your initramfs.

/etc/initramfs-tools/modules

add at the end you can type the controller module name

after that you need to regenerate the ramdisk

update-initramfs -u

Then reboot and hope for the best....

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Thanks, I was researching how to do that lat night. I'm going to hook my SSD to the LSI so all drives on it and try to install again (I wiped it for the rockstor test) If that fails I'll put the SSD back on the built in sata and try this method.

MetalGeek · 20. Oktober 2019

installing with all drives on the LSI did the trick. I'm in with all disk showing. Thanks for the tips to sort this if I re-install and the LIS doesn't show up.

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