Question Problem with LSI MegaRaid SAS 9285CV-8E Controller on Windows 10 PC ?

[Nidhal13]

Hello everyone,

I hope you are doing well. It is my first post here in TomsHardware, so please bear with me if I did something wrong.

Here is the small story of my problem. I recently got multiple SAS drives from a friend, and I want to use them as an external storage solution. I knew that my MSI MAG B560 TORPEDO motherboard didn't support SAS drives. Thus, I decided to acquire an LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8E Controller in order to connect these SAS drives to my computer. I connected this controller into my second PCIe port and I (externally) connected the controller to the SAS hard drive via an SFF8088 to SFF8482 cable.

Unfortunately, all of my effort were in vain, since nothing happens. It seems like the controller is not recognised by Windows and not even by my motherboard. I tried to install some 'Server Manager Application' in order to make this controller and the disc drive appear, but still no luck.

I would like to ask the community if somebody has encountered the same problem in the past or if someone who is specialised in this field could help me understand what is the problem and how I can resolve it.

Thank you in advance for all of your answer!

 

[faalin]

Watch during your computer bootup there should be an option to boot into the card think its CTRL+H. Once inside the raid card you will be able to link the drives to the card. Once that is done, when you boot into windows the drives should show up.

Note your boot time will take longer with the raid card and drives, also note that during the boot sequence it will tell you what drives are attached to the card once you have set them up.