Hi All,
I have already resolved my issue but I am just doing this post to show how my mindset at the time steered me down a rabbit hole of brute-force clicking and how a simple command highlighted the problem
TLDR; before rage-clicking firmware on your newly installed mystery HBA you got from ebay ........... try lspci -vv for some easy hints of whats going on
BACKGROUND: I had a 9207-8i + SAS expander that I use for host storage. I recently swapped these with a 9300-16i that I got for cheap off ebay to also use as host storage
ISSUE: Drives not visible to Proxmox but the device was recognized as a pci device. I immediately accused the card of having bad firmware
RESOLUTION: After getting mad at the card I set about rage-clicking all manner of firmware/bios combinations. The 9300 is a bit unusual in that it shows up as two discrete 9300-8i controllers and there are posts going around that claim you can flash a 9300-16i into IT mode that presents as single controller. I felt that had something to do with my problems. I was also led astray by the fact the card had a very very old firmware and I thought I had someones failed crossflashed card experiment
Cycle repeats.. frustration intensifies
Eventually I tried lspci -vv and could see that the card had grabbed the VFIO kernal driver. Fixed that and the card worked perfectly after booting
I still that feel accusing the the card of being bad was a valid emotion.. but the thing I did wrong was not trying the easy tools first
I have already resolved my issue but I am just doing this post to show how my mindset at the time steered me down a rabbit hole of brute-force clicking and how a simple command highlighted the problem
TLDR; before rage-clicking firmware on your newly installed mystery HBA you got from ebay ........... try lspci -vv for some easy hints of whats going on
BACKGROUND: I had a 9207-8i + SAS expander that I use for host storage. I recently swapped these with a 9300-16i that I got for cheap off ebay to also use as host storage
ISSUE: Drives not visible to Proxmox but the device was recognized as a pci device. I immediately accused the card of having bad firmware
RESOLUTION: After getting mad at the card I set about rage-clicking all manner of firmware/bios combinations. The 9300 is a bit unusual in that it shows up as two discrete 9300-8i controllers and there are posts going around that claim you can flash a 9300-16i into IT mode that presents as single controller. I felt that had something to do with my problems. I was also led astray by the fact the card had a very very old firmware and I thought I had someones failed crossflashed card experiment
Cycle repeats.. frustration intensifies
Eventually I tried lspci -vv and could see that the card had grabbed the VFIO kernal driver. Fixed that and the card worked perfectly after booting
I still that feel accusing the the card of being bad was a valid emotion.. but the thing I did wrong was not trying the easy tools first
