[SOLVED] lsi 9264-8

[ws196020]

hello i am building a home server and i am stuck on a Raid card issue. my system is xeon 5570 on a supermicro x8st3-f with ecc ram 12gb, and i am using windows server 19 as an OS. the board has sata and sas ports and my OS will only boot from the ssd on the onboard sataports. i have an LSI 9264-8 with correct cables and all is recognized with out any errs, i have 2 x 2tb HHD on this controller. and in megaraid software i have almost 8 tbs of space. windows server is not seeing these drives , it does see the raid card in device manager. raid is set in the bios of motherboard but its very old and limited and my drives are not seen that i can find in bios i looked under boot priority and also sata config but no drive. but i think its seeing only whats in the onboard config. the system runs great , its quiet and i think its running about 32c. i hope to use raid 5 or 6 with more drives. what could i be missing ? their are a few jumpers on the board but i think the raid card should bypass them . i do have new firmware updated from the lsi to avago but at post i cant boot into webios the cltr and h do not present. does firmware upgrade do away with it ? thanks new to server hardware.

 

[Alabalcho]

THe last thing you want is to have your server boot off non-native storage, so booting off SATA is OK.

This card is quite old, and on various sites (Lenovo/IBM, Dell) the drivers offered to to Server 2012 / Windows 7. Try first with older Server version, whether these drivers are working.

And if you did not got this: THe way it works with these RAID controllers is that you device virtual disks using that controller' configuration where you define drives, RAID levels, etc, and only after that these virtual disks are presented to the OS as "regular" disks after installing relevant drivers