Cannot replace broken hard drive with LSI HBA

[Karli Sjöberg]

tis 2015-09-29 klockan 15:38 -0500 skrev Graham Allan:
> On 9/29/2015 1:17 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> >>
> >> Regarding your experience with firmware 20, I believe it is "known bad",
> >> though some seem to disagree. Certainly when building my recent-ish
> >> large 9.3 servers I specifically tested it and got consistent data
> >> corruption. There is now a newer release of firmware 20 , "20.00.04.00"
> >> which seems to be fixed - see this thread:
> >>
> >> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2015-August/006793.html
> >
> > No, firmware 20.00.04.00 and driver 20.00.00.00-fbsd was the one that
> > was used when ZFS freaked out, so it´s definitely not fixed.
> >
> > I think this calls for a bug report.
> 
> That is curious, since I could rapidly get data corruption with firmware 
> 20.00.00.00, yet ran a stress test for about a week with 20.00.04.00 
> with no issues. That was with FreeBSD 9.3, but I just updated my test 
> system to 10.2, and it has been running the same stress test for 4-5 
> hours again with no issues. I don't doubt your experience at all, of 
> course, but I wonder what is different?
> 
> For what it's worth, my test machine is a Dell R610 with Dell TYVGC HBA 
> (unclear whether this is a 9207-8e or 9205-8e), and WD Red drives in a 
> Supermicro SC847 chassis.
> 
> Graham
> 

Have you tried scrub/resilver? That´s what triggered my "bad".

That system is the old Sun server with a 9200. Maybe P20 is just toxic
on some controller models, and others are fine...

/K