Unfortunately I am not aware of a fix for this – but I do have a super easy workaround that should help 99.9% of you out there that have landed on this page. You may have tried to troubleshoot this (like me) by watching top and seeing what is going on, only to notice right … Read more
This problem has had me stuck for 3 days and I am making sure to document the adventure here for my future-self and potentially anyone else this may help. What this is NOT This is not a writeup on how to free up disk space; this is not a writeup on how to find the … Read more
Finding the answer to this took me forever for 2 reasons: Dell has never supported Ubuntu super well – it’s “left up to the community” so relying on their official repos for installing command line utilities is a bust or outdated by a half-decade. I constantly found information on EXPANDING an array or REPLACING a … Read more
If you followed my big write-up about installing an HBA card for the first time in Linux, then you probably know where this post is going. In my particular setup (Chia Farming) – I have 6x SATA HD’s in the main enclosure and another 12x in an external enclosure. The host machine sees ALL of … Read more
Update: I just re-used this guide on a new LSI SAS 9200-16e I got off of eBay and it worked perfectly; when I plugged the card in it couldn’t see any drives, but after wiping it and reflashing the newest bios (instructions below) it suddenly saw all the drives and I was back in action! … Read more