Recent content by mandrix

I have a large case with two pedestals. The top pedestal has 12 HDD's and 4 SSD's Unless I need to / want to work on something or the odd reboot, it's on 24/7. Been this way for years.

Talking to myself here. Anyway, problem solved. Switched to an LSI SAS9211-8i with a Lenovo expander board. Disabled boot on LSI card. Booting fine into Windows now. That's the short of it anyway.

OK then, no one has a SAS board running on WIN11 or doesn't care to post. So I ended up buying a "refurb" Adaptec 71605. I have 16 drives connected to it via breakout cables. Price was about $69 off EvilBay. Only problem I'm having is booting in UEFI mode the BIOS becomes confused and thinks...

Hey all. I recently tried a LSI SAS9300 16i board (dual 3008 controllers) in my Win 11 Pro machine/Z590 mobo and Windows HATES it apparently, and does all sorts of screwy stuff. Conversely in my Win 10 machine it works perfectly, but that is not the target machine. So I need a cheap board that...