i recently bought a dell poweredge R710 off of ebay and all of the parts arrived and i assembled it and i bought a HBA and sff-8087 cables and i went into the cards setup and its not decting drives there and in bootup screen or in the os (ubuntu) and this has me stumped i tried switching pcie slots and its still exactly the same thing it would be nice if anyone could help me.
the HBA i bought: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/systems-hardware-architecture/flash-accelerator-f20-pcie-card-163877.pdf