And the drives did work just fine previously on the Previous Highpoint HBA and over MOBO sata before that.
and unless I am mistaken formatting shouldn’t be an issue for unraid, and from it’s behavior previously it was just working as an HBA and not raid in any way.
But I’ll try swapping back the other HBA in the morning and see if that one still works and then maybe go from there.
And for the different size bit sectors I can’t say I know much, but the drives I have are Seagate Iron Wolf 4TB NAS drives(ST4000VN008)
I’m presuming that you actually went into the OS and confirmed no drives showing there?
I only ever used IT mode so I didn’t have to use the LSI menu, and to pass the drives straight through, and thought they shouldn’t show in the LSI bios, because IT mode disables the raid/jbod functions?
In that case, then yeah, could be the card is bad, and good idea to double check the mobo / rocketraid cards?
If you wanted to use the hardware raid, then I think you need to flash it back to IR mode.
But, I am not sure if you want software raid (in unraid)
Yeah, I entered over lan into the web gui and the drives were listed as missing in unraid and the controller should be flashed with IT mode with the LSI bios is enabled. As was recommended by art of server for trouble shooting reasons.
after a nights rest and doing some chores outside, I found the fix relatively easily by just reseating the cables.
Was stressing out quite a bit at the time so I overlooked such a common and easy to check point of failure, but sleeping on it and leaving the problem alone for a bit before giving it a fresh look helped this time. Thanks a lot for the help so far.
this hopefully is the end of the saga of the HBA boogaloo, but who knows
