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SM 12 3.5" bay SES2 chassis - Does drive numbering work ok?


Benoire

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Have you guys considered using SATA backplane, basically HDD cages with build in backplane like the ICY DOCK or Rosewill or ... too many brands to name.

 

I find those LSI cards works as expected if they are attached to a backplane, it is after all very odd to use LSI cards SFF straight to SATA HDDs, most Servers from Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc... they will always come with a backplane and hotswap, and all of them are usually using some re-branded LSI using their own Dell / Lenovo / HP firmware.

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Yes, I have three '4in3' Rosewill sata cages right now connected to two LSI 9211-8i cards and the drive numbering is not correct. If you insert the drives in the drive cages from what you think is 1 to 12 and it will seem correct, but if you do 1-4 and then stick a drive in cage 12, it will show as 5 in DSM, this is something to do with the LSI firmware/drivers that use the WWAN to address without recognising the logical drive mapping.

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