#Lsi megaraid storage manager download server 2008 r2 drivers
#Lsi megaraid storage manager download server 2008 r2 driver

#Lsi megaraid storage manager download server 2008 r2 drivers

The drivers were the Server 2012 drivers from LSI. Second, the firmware used in all cases is the most recent firmware for the SAS HBA or Controller (these are all made by LSI with the exception of the HP P812). It also occurs on a Dell T7600 running Windows 7 Enterprise. Servers: 2 different Dell, a SuperMicro and a HP Proliant.

#Lsi megaraid storage manager download server 2008 r2 driver

The device driver in use in all cases is the most recent WHQL driver from LSI (although I have tried earlier versions, as well). Just installed Server 2012 R2 Datacenterįirst, the issue occurs in Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2. Currently includes LSI-9260 (2Tb SAS 10k in RAID 0), Dell H810 (32Tb SAS in RAID 6), and LSI-9211 (optical enclosure + 3Tb hot-swap). The system is a Tyan (Dell) MB with dual Xeon E5-2620s and 64Gb RDIMM. Is there a way to get Server to recognize all seven optical drives on an HBA? Ideally, I'd like to add several of these enclosures but I can't even get one working properly! If I use a true RAID controller (tried LSI-9260, Dell H800, Dell H810, HP 812P, IBM 5015), windows and MSM see all seven drives and the hot-swap bay, reads from the optical drives are fine, but writing large discs times out (presumably because of buffering Strangely, if I remove (any) three optical drives and replace them with hot-swap bays, all eight devices are recognized by Windows. MegaRAID Storage Manager (LSI controller software) sees all seven optical drives and the hot-swap bay. The drives Windows sees work perfectly for reading and writing. Windows only sees four DVD drives and the hot-swap bay.

I have tried several HBAs, including LSI-9211, LSI-9240-IT, Dell H310-IT.

Regardless of the type of SAS controller used to connect this enclosure, some significant functionality is always missing.įor writing, it is best to connect directly to the optical drives (which do their own buffering) so a HBA would seem better than a hardware RAID controller. Because of the volume, more optical drives are definitely better. The optical drives are also occasionally used to read datasets that come on multiple discs (usually 8-12 per dataset and up to 15 datasets at a time). The purpose is to use the seven bluray writers to write multiple copies of a largeĭatabase simultaneously. I have an external SAS enclosure with seven optical drives and one hot-swap SAS/SATA bay that connects using two SFF-8088 connectors (no internal SAS expander, etc.). The following problem occurs with Windows Server 2008 R2, 20 R2, Datacenter or Standard.