[SOLVED] LSI MegaRAID Setup for RAID

Good afternoon to everybody.

I just built this NAS:

- Fractal 804

- MoBo Gigabyte B450 Aorus M

- AMD Ryzen 3700x

- 32GB RAM DDR4 3.200MHz Corsair Vengeance

- Bewinner PCIe card SATA SAS 8 port (exactly this --> https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B07V47G4VB/)

- 1x 250MB SSD NVMe (I installed here OMV5)

- 3x 6TB HDD 3,5" (1x SAS, 2x SATA)

HDDs are directly connected to the SATA card by specific SAS or SATA cables.

PCI card's WebBIOS (LSI MegaRAID) detects all of the 3,5" physical disks, I did not build any virtual disk / RAID array because - if I'm not wrong - I'd like to build and manage RAID arrays in OMV (if needed, this tutorial shows how to do it with WebBIOS)

Issues

#1 - The NAS startup is very slow (a couple of minutes) because the MegaRAID BIOS tries (and fails) to detect virtual drives. Can I avoid this somehow?

#2 - Section "Disks" in OMV does not detect any of the 3,5" disks connected to che PCI card, so I can't wipe/mount them and I can't build RAID arrays also

Surely this happens because I'm a newbie...

Can you help me, please ?

Zitat von gderf

If you don't need the RAID capability of the card look into flashing it with IT mode software and if possible do not flash the boot BIOS section.

Thanks for infos, but... as I'm quite a newbie I don't know how to do it

Thank you again.

Yesterday another person suggested me to install the MegaRAID Storage Manager (for 9260) on Debian OS, linking also this article:

https://hosting-tutorials.co.u…storage-manager-on-debian

Someone else says it works with OMV5:

https://forums.servethehome.co…on-debian-10-omv-5.27676/

What do you think about this?

(I'm also going to contact the eBay seller to understand the right card for me)

Zitat von gderf

I looked into this a bit further. From what I have read your LSI 9260-8i card can not be flashed with IT mode firmware, so it will do on card RAID only. Your desired use case will require using another card.

I run an LSI 9200-8e card in my machine. It has external connectors (not what you need you would want a card with internal connectors). It has no on board RAID capability at all, it just passes the attached disks straight thru to the OS.

There are a lot of cards that will work for you, even many of LSI's RAID cards that can be flashed with IT mode firmware, just not the one you have.

I suggest contacting a reputable vendor who will work with you and ship to your country. One might be below. Try contacting them.

https://www.ebay.com/str/theartofserver

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Solved changing my previous 9260-8i card (OEM by Bewinner) with a genuine LSI 9211-8e from eBay.

Thank you so much.

Thanks also to @yecoaaron (I think I could have been flashing the previous 9260 card for weeks...)

Sorry, you're right. My mistake.

The model I bought is a LSI 9200-8i (9211)

It works, for sure!

The RAID Array (12TB) is building right now