SAS Drives are not detected in Proxmox.

[sherbmeister]

Hi there, I just bought a Fujitsu Primergy RX300 S7 and 6 new SAS HDDs.

Installed Proxmox and plugged the HDDs into their bays. Everything works fine in proxmox except it cannot detect my SAS drives, only the two SSDs I installed on SATA ports for running OS. The SAS drives do pop up when booting up but I can't really see them in BIOS either, only when I pass the BIOS screen can I see them loading up. Proxmox as well does not detect them once I'm in the system. I tried to detect them on both GUI and in the shell but to no avail.

My server specs are as follows:

• 2 x Intel Xeon Eight-Core E5-2690 2.90GHz Processors
• 2 x 16GB 2Rx4 PC3L-12800R - DDR3 Memory
• 6 x 3.5" SAS Bays
• 2 x 8GB High profile Fibre Card - P001219-01D
• 3 x Fujitsu D2735-A12 Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter S26361-D2735-A12
• 2 x 800W Power Supply - DPS-800NB A
• Motherboard - D2939-A17
  
  

 

[B.Otto]

Hello,

how are the SAS drives connected to your MB? Is there a Raid controller or a SAS-HBA?

With a HBA you should see them directly in the OS, but with a Raid controller usually have to configure some LUNs first.

Kind regards,
Benedikt

 

[sherbmeister]

So apparently, the seller told me that this server type does not take anything other than Fujitsu branded HDDs. I returned it and went with another model

Thanks for your time though.