Do the taped pins have anything to do with booting capability of the cards? I know a lot of people just use these to provide mass storage and boot from other sources. It is correctly recognised as a SAS2008 device using the MPT driver.īut I cannot boot any drive from it.
Dell perc h200 6gb pci e sas sata 8 port raid controller install#
Linux sees the drive and can install to it etc. If I boot teh system from the network or CD etc. I have it overnight thinking maybe it was some kind of timeout to noavail. At the point the card bios recognises and identifies the boot drive as being able to boot the system it says that the boot rom was successfully loaded and then it just sits there with that message on the screen.Īll I can do at that point is reboot the machine. but cannot get it to boot from one of the connected HDD's even though it is recognised as a boot device. However, I can get the card to boot, flash, configure etc. I could not get the board to boot on 3 different machines until taping the pins. I have an IBM M1115 that I cross flashed to LSI 9211-8i IT mode. Looks like in my case H310 worked superbly with an older Asus motherboard, but refuses to do so with a modern Gryphon Z87.ĭid you or maybe anyone else reading this post encounter similar problem with modern motherboards and Dell Perc H310? I spent quite a bit of time trying to make it work or find some answers without much success.
One of my last checks was to try running insterting H310 without B5/B6 covered, but as I expected Gryphon Z87 just goes it power on/power off cycle, very similar to the P5B. I checked quite a few BIOS settings for PCI Express - the link speed, gen etc, tried all available PCI express slots, but none of the combinations seems to do the trick.
Another of my checks was to put back H310 and try booting from CentOS 6.5 installation CD, but I ran in to the same problems. All leads to the same outcome – CentOS refuses to boot with H310 installed on the motherboard.Īs I sanity check I have removed Perc H310 card and as expected problem goes away. Additionally I tried a few various grub kernel boot options.
I tried using a dedicated GPU, as someone above suggested that, but it does not improve matters. I played around with quite a few BIOS settings for PCI Express - link speed, gen, but none of combinations seems to do the trick. However, during boot process kernel reports problems with sas_megaraid, it hangs for a while and loops indefinitely with kernel udev messages, mostly reporting "unexpectedly returned with status 0x0100". It powers up OK and CentOS starts booting, the OS is installed on a separate drive connected to one of the mobo SATA ports, so no problem there. I've moved H310 with a piece of tape over pins B5 and B6 to the new mobo. All worked flawless until I decided to build myself a new server, based on Asus Gryphon Z87. This is a very useful post and some time ago resolved my issue with H310 on ASUS P5B Deluex motherboard.