I have your 7046A-3 and am not familiar with LSI RAID setting and will not create RAID volume, but I still need the onboard SAS 1068E to recognize the eight hard drives. What should I do?
please flash the SAS controller firmware to IT mode. Download the firmware from below link.
https://www.supermicro.com/wdl/driver/SAS/LSI/1064_1068/IT/Firmware/B3/L8i/1.30.00/