13 Reasons Why | your drives are not showing up in your LSI HBA

Over the last couple of years of running the Art of Server, I’ve helped thousands of you guys with your storage server builds. And the most frequent question I get after someone receives their IT mode HBA controller from my eBay store is: “help! my hard drives aren’t showing up!”

In fact, many of my videos were made to share the experiences I’ve gained while helping many of you troubleshoot your storage setups. However, those videos are scattered across my channel, so I thought I should put together a video that can help guide you to the various other videos on my channel. That’s the motivation for this video; where I’m going to share with you the top 13 reasons why “your drives aren’t showing up in your LSI HBA controller!”

1:10 - Reason #1 - Loose SAS cable connections
6:50 - Reason #2 - Power Disable feature (   • how to fix power disable issues with ...  )
7:54 - Reason #3 - SMBus conflict (   • How to fix SMBus issue on Dell HBA RA...  )
8:57 - Reason #4 - Incorrectly mounted drives in Dell sleds (   • Dell PowerEdge Tips | How to mount SA...  )
9:55 - Reason #5 - Non-standard sector sizes (   • How to reformat drive sector size | 5...  )
10:44 - Reason #6 - Defective SAS cables
13:06 - Reason #7 - Inactive PCIe slot
14:38 - Reason #8 - Reverse breakout cables (   • How to select SAS cables  )
15:24 - Reason #9 - Linux kernel 5.8 LSI driver bug (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug....)
16:19 - Reason #10 - SFF-8482 breakout cables need power source
17:26 - Reason #11 - Using SATA-I 1.5Gbps drives
18:10 - Reason #12 - No status LED on server backplanes
19:30 - Reason #13 - Damaged SAS lanes on the HBA card

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