4k sector support (not good?)

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 2019-07-13 06:56, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> Replying to my own message to add data.  Attaching the drives to a SAS
> controller that probes up with mps, they attach without complaint, but read
> and write give:
> 
> (da1:mps0:0:12:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
> (da1:mps0:0:12:0): SCSI sense: ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:74,79 (Security conflict
> in translated device)
> (da1:mps0:0:12:0): Error 13, Unretryable error
> (da1:mps0:0:12:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00
> (da1:mps0:0:12:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
> (da1:mps0:0:12:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
> (da1:mps0:0:12:0): SCSI sense: ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:74,79 (Security conflict
> in translated device)
> (da1:mps0:0:12:0): Error 13, Unretryable error
> (da1:mps0:0:12:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00
> (da1:mps0:0:12:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
> (da1:mps0:0:12:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
> (da1:mps0:0:12:0): SCSI sense: ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:74,79 (Security conflict
> in translated device)
> (da1:mps0:0:12:0): Error 13, Unretryable error
> 
> ... now this drive is a ST2000NX0243.  The ST2000NX0248 is an encrypted
> drive, but the 243 is not.
> 
> ... so what's this error.  Also... I'm no SCSI speaker, but reading the
> manual for the drive, 28 and 2a are not commands it lists.  20 and 24 (for
> read and read extended) and 30 and 34 (for write and write extended).
> 
> Help?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 7:33 PM Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> So I have 6 drives that have 4k sectors.  They are:
>>
>> ST2000NX0243
>>
>> I first tried talking to them with an old MFI passthru controller.  I
>> think that is not FreeBSD's fault --- the MFI didn't want them.
>>
>> Now on the motherboard, I have
>>
>> ahci2: <Marvell 88SE9230 AHCI SATA controller> port
>> 0xa050-0xa057,0xa040-0xa043,0xa030-0xa037,0xa020-0xa023,0xa000-0xa01f mem
>> 0xfe610000-0xfe6107ff irq 40 at device 0.0 on pci7
>> ahci2: AHCI v1.20 with 8 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier not supported
>>
>> ... which will attach the drives, but kick out all kinds of probe errors.
>> Smartctl can read the drives on this controller.
>>
>> In a PCIe slot I have:
>>
>> ahci3 at pci0:0:17:0:      class=0x010601 card=0x84dd1043 chip=0x43911002
>> rev=0x40 hdr=0x00
>>      vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]'
>>      device     = 'SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]'
>>
>> which attaches the devices, kicks out a lot of errors and smartctl can't
>> read the drives on this controller.
>>
>> now... on the motherboard controller, I can say:
>>

If you want to boot from a 4K disk you need this patch at least:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19245

--HPS