I had a home server I built for the purposes of Hyper-V usage (learning as I built various server images) as well has home storage for pictures, videos, file shares, etc. I had it setup RAID 10 with a LSI MegaRAID SATA / SAS 9260-8i 6Gb/s PCI-Express 2.0 w/ 512MB Onboard Memory RAID Controller Card, a SuperMicro motherboard and a bunch of WD(4x750MB) and Hitachi (4x2TB) drives.
Several months ago something went wrong with it, I suspect the power supply and it went down. At the time I was sick and I just let it go. Weeks later I tried a few things to bring it back online and in trying a new power supply I accidentaly used the wrong cable to attach an 8 pin power cable the SuperMicro motherboard ( it was another 8 pin cable, maybe PCI or some such)...anyway, long story short...too late, I'm looking at it again.
NOTE: I'm not worried about recovering the data on the disks. I had most of it backed up,
I just want to start from scratch. The problem is none of the disks are showing up in the LSI setup UI when the system boots. I've also tried taking a few HDDs out and pugging them into my plugable USB external HDD enclosure and nothing happens there.
Does the LSI card do something "low level" that needs to be undone? I seem to remember in ancient time that HDDs could be "low level formatted" and bricked but I didn't think that existed anymore. These are SATA 3.0 drives.
What's the best (easiest) way to nuke and pave the drives so they show up in the LSI UI again and rebuild this machine from scratch?
Several months ago something went wrong with it, I suspect the power supply and it went down. At the time I was sick and I just let it go. Weeks later I tried a few things to bring it back online and in trying a new power supply I accidentaly used the wrong cable to attach an 8 pin power cable the SuperMicro motherboard ( it was another 8 pin cable, maybe PCI or some such)...anyway, long story short...too late, I'm looking at it again.
NOTE: I'm not worried about recovering the data on the disks. I had most of it backed up,
I just want to start from scratch. The problem is none of the disks are showing up in the LSI setup UI when the system boots. I've also tried taking a few HDDs out and pugging them into my plugable USB external HDD enclosure and nothing happens there.
Does the LSI card do something "low level" that needs to be undone? I seem to remember in ancient time that HDDs could be "low level formatted" and bricked but I didn't think that existed anymore. These are SATA 3.0 drives.
What's the best (easiest) way to nuke and pave the drives so they show up in the LSI UI again and rebuild this machine from scratch?
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