On the 9300-16i, I have been seeing the connected drives under a ‘physical drives’ menu that appears if drives are connected… on the 9305 I did not…
Would you expect the drives to spin up on boot?
I’ll try booting into proxmox and running lshw on both cards tomorrow. Thanks for the route to test!
Ok. Did a bunch more testing here tonight.
I have 2x 8tb SAS drives that have worked for several weeks now. Those show up in bios reliably regardless of which connector I use. So I think the HBA is working and the cables are good.
Of the 10x 10tb drives, 1 drive shows up reliably. It also seems to work on any connector I use. But it is the only drive the works.
Here is 8 of the 10 installed and only one showing in BIOS. I think the other 7 are not even spinning up.
An additional weird thing is that at least 1 other of the 10 drives did show up the first time I plugged it in from inside the xpenology VM. I did ‘hot swap’ that one in, but it then passed a SMART test. But since it passing the test and me pulling it, it hasn’t worked again. I’m also not positive which drive it is because originally I wasn’t expecting things to behave so weirdly, so I didn’t start taking notes…
As another test, I got a hold of a 9305-16i to see if the drives would read on that. And while that card would show up in BIOS, none of the drives – including the 8th that have always worked – showed up or spun up at all! I wonder if that card is not compatible with my mobo?
Is it possible other BIOS settings are interfering?
I continue pooping in the next stall over.
Dune over Hyperion all day. But you should really read A Deepness in the Sky. Everyone should.
I snagged lemmyw.ink to roll one soon. Lemmiw.ink, too, for good measure.
I was very tickled with myself.
I’ve been happy with my Eufy fingerprint lock. Has built in Wi-Fi. Pretty good app.
The physical keys are pretty non-standard, though. Hard/impossible to get additional keys cut.
But fingerprint works great. Keypad too.
Idk if I’m the right one to help here…
But don’t take a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Maybe the 101st job will come through. Maybe your new bff is going to appear tomorrow. Idk.
The thing I do know is that nothing is permanent. Good or bad. Except death. Options are spiraling out into the future in front of you and this, too, shall pass.
Appreciate your past self - they overcame a lot to get you here.
Forgive your current self - they’re doing their best in trying times.
And trust your future self to make the best of what times come next.