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How to get a PCIe Mini-SAS card working in Linux?

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I can't seem to get this PICe card working and I can't find any info/drivers about it on the internet. All the SATA HDDs in my server are connected using this card which came with the system. It works instantly plug-and-play in Windows. But on Linux, nothing. lspci shows the card but no drives or /dev/sdX devices show up, and I don't see any messages/errors regarding it in dmesg, not sure what I should be looking for though. I'm using Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 btw. (And if you're curious why desktop on a server, it's a headless box but I installed the desktop so I can VNC in as well as SSH in) Here is the card. It says "Newer MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G PCIe 2.0" RAID Card EDIT: Here's what lspci -v shows: 06:00.0 RAID bus controller: HighPoint Technologies, Inc. Device 1e10 (rev 03) Subsystem: HighPoint Technologies, Inc. Device 0000 Physical Slot: 3 Flags: fast devsel Memory at 90940000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128K] Memory at 90900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=256K] Expansion ROM at 90960000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: Power Management version 3 Capabilities: MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: Virtual Channel
Asked by Pecacheu (101 rep)
Jan 4, 2022, 08:06 PM
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