Drives connected via hot-swap backplane don't appear

wuubb

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I have a server using an iStarUSA ex2m8 chassis, which has 8 hot swap 3.5 bays that are connected to a backplane with 2 miniSAS connectors. I had accidentally bought a SATA controller instead of one that had SAS ports on it, so I bought a splitter cable to connect the two.

In windows though, none of the drives in the hot swap bays show up (or in disk management). I have all of the drivers installed for the controller, but still nothing.

What gives?
 
Solution
What is the make and model of the SATA controller?

Are the HDDs SAS or SATA?

If the drives are SAS, they will not work on a SATA controller.