Re: SAS/SATA controllers: 8 port that support 8TB Drives
- In reply to: Alexander Motin : "Re: SAS/SATA controllers: 8 port that support 8TB Drives"
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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:29:32 UTC
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. -- Alexander Motin