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HBAs are host bus adapters. They are a type of special purpose network card specifically designed for talking to storage systems. Typically via Fiber Channel, SCSI or eSATA.

Host Bus Adapters are special purpose "network" devices for talking to storage systems. They use storage protocols (SCSI, Fiber Channel, etc.) to communicate with a SAN or set of disks.

They can be expansion boards installed in a server, or an on board option, much like 'conventional' network cards.

Because of the specific needs of storage they tend to be lower latency than you would get from a conventional ethernet network card.

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SAS HBA card not working

I have a NAS server with three SAS HBA cards. Two are SAS3 and work just fine, they connect to three 48 drive JBOD cabinets. The third is SAS2, connecting to a tape robot with 5 drives, and does not work. The server is a Supermicro SYS-2029U-TR4T.…
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SAS3 HBA / Backplane Issue

I have the Supermicro BPN-SAS3-743A backplane hooked up to a AOC-S3008L-L8i RAID card in IT mode using a regular mini SAS SFF-8643 to SFF-8643 cable bought from Amazon. When I'm in the HBA bios, the topology shows no drives even though there are 4…
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HP Proliant ML350 Gen9 Server with Debian Linux Kernel Does not boot HBA mode SAS drives. initramfs timeout. long disk detection. disks not recognized

This is what I have: 1- HP Proliant ML350 Gen9 with SAS LFF (3.5 inch) Disks running in HBA mode. 2- Debian Linux version 10 (Buster) Kernel Does not boot HBA mode SAS drives normaly. I have to go to recovery mode in order to boot then press ctrl+D…
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Linux Can't Detect Some Hard Drives

I have a dell R820 with an LSI 9211-8i HBA installed. I connected one hard drive, a dell with model number HUC101890CSS204, and installed ubuntu 18.04 onto it from a usb stick. I then added 3 HGST hard drives, model number HUC109090CSS600. All 4…
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Possible to use SAS-2 and SAS-3 HBA in the same system?

I'm wondering if it is possible to use a SAS-2 HBA in a "SAS-3" system. I have a Supermicro X11DPH-T and have attempted to install an LSI 9201-16e. From what I understood (which may be wrong), a PCIe 2.0 card may be installed in a PCIe 3.0 slot,…
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Configure single LTO tape drive over Fiber Channel HBA

How do you set up a single tape storage drive over an FC HBA? As far as I can tell, these things are not "plug and play". The tape drive I bought is an lto-5 FC taken from a tape library. I have everything on and plugged in, but I am not seeing the…
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How is FC HBA card compatibility on Ubuntu? [Solved]

I have a server running on Ubuntu 16.04, and need to connect this server to a SAN storage via FC. I wonder which kind of HBA FC card does Ubuntu support? For example, this card is suggested by a local supplier, but Ubuntu is not in supported…
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LSI 9211-8 or 9650se for a ZFS Pool

I'm putting together a white box (smartos) for our dev team with some of the leftover hardware we have. The server chassis I'm going to use has 8 swappable drives and I'm trying to determine which hba card to use for the ZFS Pool. I have both the…
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RAID Controller Firmware Issue

Background: I'm a Linux newbie with very limited knowledge, I wanted to build a RAID 10 for our startup after experiencing a complete loss of several terabytes of data from Dropbox recently. Setup: I spun up an Ubuntu 16.04 (Desktop) machine and…
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CentOS7 and LSI-9200-8E: How to see all external drives?

I'm working on a low-budget configuration change that involves a migration from a working reflashed IBM M1010 (LSI9220-8i) environment to a newer server running an LSI9200-8e SAS HBA. Everything works fine on the old server, but it uses lots of…
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Compatibility criteria between PCIe component and the motherboard

I have a Gigabyte (GA-B85-HD3 2.0) motherboard and an LSI SA9201-16e, however am not seeing the BIOS configuration menu for the card on boot. The motherboard only has one PCIe slot that can accept the card (8x 2.0), the graphics card slot (16x 3.0).…
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Reconnecting SAS equipment

I need to reconfigure the cabling between some LTO tape drives and a server. Are they plug and play or do I need to do any configuration? From what I've read so far, it seems that recycling the power on the server and the drives should be enough. We…
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install grub in a usb and boot proxmox from another drive

Good morning my friends! I'm tryng a solution before buy some new hardware. So this is my situation: I have some beautifull hp dl360p gen8 that comes with an p420i hardware raid controller. What I'm tryng to build is a proxmox+ceph cluster for my…
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How to find wwn through EFI Shell?

I have not installed any OS in the server. HBA card is attached to the server and after power ON it enters into EFI shell. I entered below command and it show FC driver drivers Output like 17F 00000629 D N Y 2 0 HP Fibre Channel Driver…
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How to find out driver and firmware version of my ESXi Fiber Channel HBA? (via SSH)

I have an ESXi 5.5 Server (HP DL380 G7). How can i figure out the driver and firmeware version of my HP-QLOGIC Fiber Channel HBA via SSH? I think i am too stupid... :-/ Thx for help.
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