Re: SAS/SATA controllers: 8 port that support 8TB Drives
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:55:50 UTC
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) -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 214-642-9640 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 5708 Sabbia Dr, Round Rock, TX 78665-2106