I recently bought a Mushkin Scorpion Deluxe PCI-e 8x SSD to be used on my MSI 890FXA/GD70 mainboard.
I currently have two disks on SATA (1TB and 2TB). The smaller of the two holds 3 operating systems (Windows 8.1, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 14.10), the larger holds just data on two 1TB partitions.
I plugged the SSD in and booted into the existing Ubuntu installation. During boot, the card's SAS BIOS ran and showed that it had configured everything OK. However, no new drives showed up.
I tried in Windows 8.1, same story.
Since plug & pray had failed, I downloaded and installed the drivers for both OSes off the website, to no avail.
Both OSes can see the card fine (Ubuntu's lspci
shows the card, same in device manager in Windows), but whatever I try, no new drives...
I thought maybe I need to switch configurations in the BIOS. That's when mysterious things started happening. If I switch to AHCI or RAID mode, the corresponding bios utility fails:
MPT BIOS Fault 09h encountered at adapter PCI(04h,00h,00h)
When I switch back to IDE mode, the card's BIOS runs again. I can't configure much in the card's configuration utility, nor in the AHCI/RAID utilities, so...I'm a bit stuck.
Perhaps I'm now too blinded by details that I'm missing something completely obvious. What could I try to get this setup working?