Does ZimaOS support Multiple drives?

[Viegas]

Hi I have a LSI HBA card attached to my machine but it seems not to be recognised by Zima is this a feature that will be added soon?

[Zima-Giorgio]

Hi, is this helpful?

How to configure an HBA to be recognised by a ZimaBoard

Here are the instructions to enable the use of an HBA to work with the ZimaBoard. Once in the bios go to: chipset south cluster configuration pci express configuration -enable all pci express clock gating port 8xh decode port #0 peer write memory compliance mode Then go to: pci express root port 3 aspm: auto pcie speed: gen 2 transmit half swing: enable (if it still doesn’t work I would then try ports 4, 5 and 6 but I got it to work just by changing port 3) Hope this Helps

[Jerry]

The current Installer image does not support LSI HBA cards very well, you can try using a different system boot and then dd the ZimaOS system image to the target disk.

[Viegas]

Hey Jerry, so I can see my m.2 drive where I have my OS installed. The issue is it doesn’t recognize all the drives attached to the HBA card which is where I want to store content.

[Jerry]

Can you tell me the model number of your HBA card? I’ve integrated the drivers for mpt3sas in a version that will be released.

[Viegas]

The model number of the HBA card is - LSI SAS2308-8i(9217-8i)

[Jerry]

I found out that it uses the mpt3sas kernel driver that I added earlier, which should normally be supported in the next release.