Jeff Geerling
Jeff Geerling
I ordered a couple other PCIe risers with external PSU connections, and one of them even has three options (molex, floppy, or 6-pin PCI power connector). Maybe between the four...
YouTube video is up: [Enterprise SAS RAID ...on a RASPBERRY PI?!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gAUApGaWKk) Still, I have a tiny bit of hope for these cards... it could be that both are dead and...
Haha, nice catch on the pin. And yeah, it would probably be a good idea to drop the cards in a PC to verify they actually work. I just don't...
Just noting here since I left some info in the YT comments but forgot to cross-post: - I did try taping off pins with some kapton tape as described in...
If it were a BAR issue, it would've shown up in the dmesg logs—but the Pi is basically acting like it sees no card at all (thus the 'link down'...
@elFarto ah, good idea. I'll give that a try later. Even with that, especially after hearing some of the BIOS / early-gen SAS card woes here, in YouTube comments, and...
@kohenkatz Maybe solid on means "I enjoy interfacing with this Raspberry Pi, but I will not work with it."
Note: I am in contact with a few engineers who, let's just say, know a _lot_ more than I do about LSI cards. We're going to do a little more...
Also dropping just for the general knowledge: [IBM ServeRAID M1015 Part 4: Cross flashing to a LSI9211-8i in IT or IR mode](https://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/); and a similar article on this specific card,...
@starchivore - I may be missing it here, but is the idea to use a USB audio interface with this?