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

From: Larry Rosenman <ler_at_lerctr.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:16:51 UTC
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
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