LSI 9207-8i Controller HBA Card, LSI 2308 SATA SAS Host Bus Adapter. 2 * SFF-8087 Internal 6Gbps, PCI-e 3.0 x8. IT Mode Firmware. Non RAID.

Works out of the box for proxmox host. I zip tied a 40mm 12v fan to the heatsink and plugged into my mb fan header. All these Lsi server cards can get very hot. When passing through host to truenas VM it locked up the host unless I made the following changes to proxmox 9.1: How I pass through an HBA on the host: 1. Enable vfio on host: *This allows distinct iommu groups for devices to go in, so passing through one doesn't affect another, presuming it's not in the same group. cat >> /etc/modules << 'EOF' vfio vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_pci vfio_virqfd 2. blacklist the native driver if it is causing issues: echo "blacklist mpt3sas" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mpt3sas.conf 3. Run the following: update-initramfs -u -k all proxmox-boot-tool refresh reboot 4. Run the following to verify your HBA is in its own iommu group: for g in /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/*; do echo "Group ${g##*/}:"; for d in $g/devices/*; do lspci -nns "${d##*/}"; done; done 5. Bind to the vm in the gui and try to boot it. a. It's advised by AI to disable "rom bar" when adding lsi controllers. 6. If starting the vm freezes the host, and looking at the host console(monitor output) you see that it unloaded the default raid/hba driver without issue but never bound to vfio, the issue is likely needing to disable FLR. 7. To disable FLR: create /etc/modprobe.d/vfio-reset.conf a. paste this in it: options vfio-pci disable_idle_d3=1 disable_vga=1 disable_flr=1 8. Add these to the end of the line in /etc/kernel/cmdline: intel_iommu=on iommu=pt pcie_aspm=off pci=noaer 9. Run the following again: update-initramfs -u -k all proxmox-boot-tool refresh reboot

Works as expected. Good price as well. This works nicely with Proxmox and passing it to TrueNAS. It has an initial boot from the host machine, then the Proxmox server boots as expected. Something that helped TrueNAS boot without pausing because of the Avago BIOS loading from the controller is to disable Rom-Bar. This immediately fixed the issue and let the drives be passed as expected to TrueNAS. 2nd thing: I had trouble with the card not being available even after enabling all the required bios settings and loading the correct info in the kernal. Turns out the card was very slightly out of the pci slot. I'm guessing 1/64th of a inch because it was not visibly out of the slot. So if you happen to run into the card not being offered as a RAW device when mounting it in Proxmox to your TrueNas VM, this could be the issue. (you'll know immediately because the Proxmox server you are using won't show the splash for the Avago BIOS loading up from the card if it's not seated properly when booting up.) Hope this helps someone!

My Debian server sees this right out of the box and detects all the drives I plug into it. No complaints!

I picked this card up based on price, availability, Mini SAS connections, and the reviews. I needed to replace a LSI 9750 8i RAID card in a sever I turned into a TrueNAS NAS host. I had set up my 8 x 4TB SATA drives as single drives / individual RAID 0's on the RAID card but since the RAID card does not pass the drive info through and also causes issues with ZFS with the write cache. I needed to replace the card. I spent 2 days backing up my data and then swapped to the HBA card to only find out that it ended up being a drop in replacement with NO reconfig needed. I powered down the host, swapped the card, booted it back up, and everything came back online. All of my data was just there and all of my ProxMox VMs and mount points reconnected without issue. I have been up and running for over a month now with NO issues. I also got a bit of a performance gain switching to the HBA over the RIAD card so that's nice as well. I'm not saying this will happen for everything but it was a great buy for me.

I've been running this 24/7 for months with truenas scale and never had a single error. So far so good!

Did not come flashed with IT firmware. Came with RAID FW

This didn't work for me STRAIGHT out of the box, but this may or may not have been due to me using this for a Proxmox 9 install on a Dell PowerEdge R710. Consider this review something like a 4.8. After the reconfiguration below, the card has been working pretty well, and no other problems have arisen yet. However, I will come back and edit this review if the card dies early. This card did indeed work to install Proxmox, but the drives did not come online until the OS layer started, making the boot entry "Unavailable". For the maybe three other people on the planet trying to install one of these into an R710, here's what I did to get it working: - Search Google for "Broadcom 9207 HII UEFI", you'll want the Support Documents and Downloads page, and the file under BIOS called "UEFI_BSD_P20". - You'll also want to grab the "9207_8i_Package_P20_IR_IT_FW_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows" file, even if your card is already at firmware 20.00.07.00 (mine was). This contains the "sas2flash" utility for putting the HII ROM on the card. - Use Rufus to flash a thumbdrive with MS-DOS (yes really; if your R710 is like mine, it will never boot to EFI Shell). - Extract both of the above zips to the thumbdrive. I recommend putting "sas2flsh.exe" from the firmware zip (under "sas2flash_dos_rol") and the contents of the "Signed" folder from the HII archive in the root for easy typing. - Boot the server to the thumbdrive in Legacy BIOS mode. - [OPTIONAL] Take a flash backup of the card, just in case: sas2flsh -c 0 -o -uflash [backupfilename].bin (mine took about 10-ish minutes to do this). - Flash the HII ROM onto the card: sas2flsh -c 0 -b x64sas2.rom - Power-cycle the system. After all that, the drives came up with the rest of the HII interfaces, and was available for booting properly. Also, not a product note, but if you have an R710 with Xeon 56-series procs, add "intel_iommu=off" to the GRUB and save yourself the 2 days of debug that I went through trying to figure out why the installer kept crashing. There's a bug in the 6.8 kernel with older hardware that supports VT-d.

Working great for my 8 HDD NAS. All drives were immediately detected after being plugged in, and I've had no issues running my ZFS array through this card.