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8845HS 8-bay/9-bay NAS - PCIe Troubleshooting question

2025-08-19 09:01:58
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First. This Forum is great. Thank you for setting it up as well as the document site.

I purchased the 8845HS 8-bay/9-bay NAS, and I have been having some difficulties with the x16 PCIe Slot(8x speed). Do you happen to know if any testing was done with HBA cards for this motherboard? I have a LSI 9207-8i Controller HBA Card that when plugged into the board with the latest BIOS(Phx20HDF723004_FMA01_P5C9V10) I am unable to get a base TrueNAS install to boot with the HBA card. It actually stalls when trying to initialize the card, but eventually moves on after a couple minutes. I have validated the HBA works in my personal computer which uses a AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and the hard drives appear in the OS for format, and I can update the HBA BIOS/Firmware on mt 7900x system.

I also was not able to update the HBA card while it was plugged into the 8845HS motherboard using the needed shell, but when plugged into the 8845HS it would show up on a shell using lspci as "Serial Attached SCSI controller Broadcom / LSI  SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 -r05 -p00 Broadcom / LSI 9207-8i SAS2.1 HBA".

Just wondering if its expected that a HBA card should be working.

P.S
Bifurcation support please ❤️

Thanks again!

    looddAdminCommunity worker
    2025-08-20 20:01:32
    The current situation is: after a period of lag during startup, can your expansion card work properly, or is it still not working?
    gkAuthor
    2025-08-21 08:03:56

    I was not able to get it to load properly on the 8845HS board. It's a LSI 9207-8i Controller HBA Card which uses a LSI SAS 2308 controller. It's flashed to IT mode already. 

    Firmware is 20.00.07
    BIOS is 07.39.00.00 <-- Needed to be able to boot from a hard drive plugged into the card.
    Even when trying to use the sas2flash.efi shell it would begin launching the command to probe the card and then hang, but when plugged into my normal computer motherboard, a ROG STRIX B650-A, it loads without issue. I had hoped updating the firmware to the latest I could find would resolve it, but it did not.

    This weekend I am going to attempt more troubleshooting like deleting the BIOS on the HBA and seeing if it makes a difference. 

    looddAdminCommunity worker
    2025-08-23 21:18:27

    Caused by SMBus conflict.

    Solutions:Try replacing with a device of a different brand or model.Use insulating tape or a sticker to cover pins 5 and 6 of the network card to resolve the issue.

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