3 years later, running into the same problem again and I manage to solve it. In the BIOS, go to Integrated Devices -> Slot Disablement. The SAS cards had their slots set to "Boot Driver Disabled". I changed them to "Enabled" and sure enough they show up in the BIOS now. Funny how things are when you revisit them later. Jeffe
Hey guys, so here's an interesting one which I'm wondering if someone has seen. So we have a series of R720 servers with the 6Gbps SAS HBA cards in them (2 per server). On all but 1 of these servers we do not see the card in the intial POST that let's us get in and see what the SAS Addresses are. Now the odd thing is, once we have loaded up the OS (tried both ESX 4.1i and Windows 2008 R2), you can see the HBA with no problem, but this doesn't help when you're trying to assign SAS ID's to the MD3220. So it's not like these are bad cards (possibly, but that may mean we got a few of them). It really seems to be something with how the R720 is (UEFI maybe?) or is not enumerating these cards because I can't even see it in the Lifecycle Management Controller or the iDRAC7 Enterprise console. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Jeffe
6Gbps SAS HBA not posting on an R720