LSI SAS9200-8e Confirguration

[robin.mattern]

I have inherited a LSI SAS9200-8e 6Gb/s SAS PCIe x8 HBA in a Dell R710 server connected to a EMC KTN-STL3 JBOD with 15 1TB drives.
I don't see the drives in Proxmox or in the Debian console. Can someone point me to a guide that explains setting up the server BIOS, the HBA's BIOS and/or firmware and a Proxmox file system (LVM, ZFS and/or NFS). I don't need anything too complex, but I do what to create VMs that act as a media servers with lots of disk space.

 

[robin.mattern]

I have found and installed a Debian driver for the LSI SAS9200-8e HBA using this command:
# sudo dpkg -i mpt2sas-20.00.04.00-1_Debian7.0.amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package mpt2sas.
(Reading database ... 40134 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack mpt2sas-20.00.04.00-1_Debian7.0.amd64.deb ...
pre 20.00.04.00
Unpacking mpt2sas (20.00.04.00-1) ...
Setting up mpt2sas (20.00.04.00-1) ...
post 20.00.04.00
post Install Done.

Even though it seems like the driver is installed:
# dpkg -l mpt2sas

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=========-===============-============-==================================
ii mpt2sas 20.00.04.00-1 amd64 LSI MPT Fusion drivers for SAS 2.0

This command, modprobe mpt2sas has no output. The LSI SAS9200 doesn't have any instructions for Debian, just RHEL5. So what do I do next?
Am I barking up the wrong tree?

 

[donhwyo]

First I would be sure all firmwares and bios are up to date.

Not sure if this applies to your card or not.
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/no-sas2008-after-upgrade.129499/
What does

lspci |grep LSI

show?

root@pve:~# lspci  |grep LSI
05:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03)
22:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS2116 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Meteor] (rev 02)

Also you may need to setup the disks during the boot by hitting control d or something. If you plan to use zfs you may be able to flash the card to "it mode".