dell 6/ir

[koobe]

Hi guys,

First of all, this is my first post here, but I'm reading HardForum for quite some time now.

I'm trying to build a ~15TB storage. Two weeks ago I bought a Dell SAS 6/ir and was planning to flash it with IT fw. Which I did, after a backup of fw and BIOS. Did a server reboot, but now the card only detects 5 out of 8 HDDs.

MegaRaid Storage Manager reports "Device port count" 5 and shows only 5 "Backend SAS Address". Like this:

When I'm trying to flash original fw I get

Executing Operation: Flash Firmware Image

        Checksum Passed: 00000000

        Verifying NVDATA Compatibility. . .
        ERROR: Cannot move backwards from NVDATA version 2D03 to 2806.

Due to error remaining commands will not be executed.
Unable to Process Commands.
Exiting SASFlash.

sasflash.exe -list is returning

        Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS 1068E(B3):

Controller Number:              1
Controller:                     1068E(B3)
PCI Address:                    00:01:00:00
SAS Address:                    50024e8-0-4e19-2d00
NVDATA Version (Default):       0x2d03
NVDATA Version (Persistent):    0x2d03
Product ID:                     0x2204
Firmware Version:               01.33.00.00
NVDATA Vendor:                  LSILogic
NVDATA Product ID:              SAS3081E
BIOS Version:                   06.36.00.00
BIOS Alternate Version:         N/A
EFI BSD Version:                N/A
FCODE Version:                  N/A

Finished Processing Commands Successfully.
        Exiting SASFlash.

Any ideeas why it's detecting only 5 HDDs?