Re: SAS/SATA controllers: 8 port that support 8TB Drives

> On 18. Jun 2022, at 00:57, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> wrote:
> On 06/17/2022 5:48 pm, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>>> On 18. Jun 2022, at 00:31, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 17.06.2022 18:24, Alexander Motin wrote:
>>>>> On 17.06.2022 18:16, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>>>> On 06/17/2022 5:08 pm, Alexander Motin wrote:
>>>>>> On 17.06.2022 11:59, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>>>>>> I'm looking to upgrade the controllers in my TrueNAS box to something that will
>>>>>>> support 8TB drives because apparently my LSI 2108 controllers do not support 8TB drives.
>>>>>>> What's the communities recommendation?
>>>>>>> needs to support SFF connectors for a total of 4 SFF connectors, as I have 16 slots.
>>>>>> We at iX are still using LSI/Broadcom HBAs, just moved from long
>>>>>> discontinued mps(4) to newer mpr(4).  And I don't believe the problem
>>>>>> is directly related to capacity.  According to my observations it may
>>>>>> be Seagate HDDs of/above certain (8TB) generation.  We do not use
>>>>>> Seagate HDDs in our products, so about that instability I only heard
>>>>>> from forums and TrueNAS community user reports.
>>>>> This is a mfi(4) set of controllers, and a ST80000Nm0045 8TB (CMR) drive.
>>>>> Is this a bad combo?
>>>>> mfi0: 9973 (708793330s/0x0002/WARN) - PD 00(e0xfc/s3) is not supported
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): Retrying command, 3 more tries remain
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): Retrying command, 2 more tries remain
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): Retrying command, 1 more tries remain
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): Retrying command, 0 more tries remain
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
>>>>> (probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted
>>>>> mfi0 Physical Drives:
>>>>>  0 (  932G) UNCONFIGURED GOOD <ST8000NM0045-1RL UG07 serial=ZA1AC912> SATA E1:S3
>>>> mfi(4) are RAIDs, not HBAs.  We do not recommend RAIDs with TrueNAS due to problems with hot-plug, disk identification, etc. and so have limited experience with them.  But I know some of LSI RAIDs can be reflashed into equivalent HBAs, so if they share the hardware, I can speculate that they may share some issues.
>>> I've just noticed "932G" instead of "8000G".  It is obviously a bigger problem than what we heard for HBAs.  It looks like a kind of problems that should not happen to HBAs, since they should not care about disk capacity.
>> What does `smartctl -a <device>` report (especially sector sizes)?
>> -m
>>> --
>>> Alexander Motin
> It's not even making a mfid* node (it is a 4Kn disk)

Ok, that’s sad (and explains the wrong size calculation as 4096/512=8).

Is this in HBA mode? (Like Alexander suggested, re-/crossflashing using an IT firmware might be an option). What controller / firmware image version is it?

-m


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