DELL PowerEdge T130 - Devices detected as SATA

[Paul Pathiakis]

 Hi,
I have a 'possibility'.  IF your CD/DVD are not plugged into SATA ports, do so.  Get them off this controller.  SAS will try to accommodate SATA but, depending on the order of detection, it will 'step down' in speed.
Next, try putting all the SAS drives (do you have any?), on a separate controller line.
If you have only SATA drives, put the SATA III, followed by SATA II, (any SATA I ?) on the chain as detected.  I believe as SAS encounters devices, it will allow transfers at the highest speed it encounters and step down as it goes.
This is all off the top of my head not having read SAS spec in a while and only having SAS and M.2 drives now.
Paul

    On Monday, July 13, 2020, 1:29:07 PM EDT, Javier Sturman <sturmanj at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Hi. I've got FreeBSD 12.1 installed on a Dell PowerEdge T130 with:
2x 2TB hdd
1 SSD.

I've got the PERC configured as HBA. This is the output from dmesg:

AVAGO MegaRAID SAS FreeBSD mrsas driver version: 07.709.04.00-fbsd
mrsas0: <AVAGO Fury SAS Controller> port 0x3000-0x30ff mem
0x92c00000-0x92c0ffff,0x92b00000-0x92bfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
mrsas0: FW now in Ready state
mrsas0: Using MSI-X with 4 number of vectors
mrsas0: FW supports <96> MSIX vector,Online CPU 4 Current MSIX <4>
mrsas0: max sge: 0x46, max chain frame size: 0x400, max fw cmd: 0xef
mrsas0: Issuing IOC INIT command to FW.
mrsas0: IOC INIT response received from FW.
mrsas0: System PD created target ID: 0x0
mrsas0: System PD created target ID: 0x1
mrsas0: System PD created target ID: 0x2
mrsas0: FW supports: UnevenSpanSupport=1

mrsas0: max_fw_cmds: 239  max_scsi_cmds: 223
mrsas0: MSI-x interrupts setup success
mrsas0: mrsas_ocr_thread
........
ZFS filesystem version: 5
ZFS storage pool version: features support (5000)
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
mrsas0: Disestablish mrsas intr hook
ugen0.1: <0x8086 XHCI root HUB> at usbus0
uhub0: <0x8086 XHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot/ROOT/default []...
cd0 at ahcich4 bus 0 scbus6 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <PLDS DVD+-RW DU-8A5LH 6D5M> Removable CD-ROM SCSI device
cd0: Serial Number 2WXxxxPLC0086451X0A00
cd0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA6, ATAPI 12bytes, PIO 8192bytes)
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present -
tray closed
da2 at mrsas0 bus 1 scbus1 target 2 lun 0
da2: <ATA SanDisk SDSxxxA24 30RL> Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
da2: Serial Number 172757804261
da2: 150.000MB/s transfers
da2: 228936MB (468862128 512 byte sectors)
da0 at mrsas0 bus 1 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
da0: <ATA HUS722TxxxLA600 MU03> Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
da0: Serial Number WMC6N0M1FFPK
da0: 150.000MB/s transfers
da0: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors)
da1 at mrsas0 bus 1 scbus1 target 1 lun 0
da1: <ATA ST2000NM00xx-2F3 EA04> Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
da1: Serial Number ZDS0LJKY
da1: 150.000MB/s transfers
da1: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors)

When I installed the server I had to enable mrsas in device.hints for
better results:

hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1"

Any ideas why could the devices be detected as 150MB/s transfers only?

-- 
Javier Sturman
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