Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 06:31:58 +0000 From: =?utf-8?B?S2FybGkgU2rDtmJlcmc=?= <karli.sjoberg@slu.se> To: Rick Romero <rick@havokmon.com> Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cannot replace broken hard drive with LSI HBA Message-ID: <1443594718.5271.95.camel@data-b104.adm.slu.se> In-Reply-To: <20150929135417.Horde.W2X_CSKI8gBxk1Df7JVOPQ1@www.vfemail.net> References: <1443447383.5271.66.camel@data-b104.adm.slu.se> <5609578E.1050606@physics.umn.edu> <560A4640.3030200@internetx.com> <560A9461.8090300@physics.umn.edu> <560A977C.1070102@internetx.com> <560AD2B9.5040706@fuckner.net> <560AD6C7.80800@internetx.com> <20150929135417.Horde.W2X_CSKI8gBxk1Df7JVOPQ1@www.vfemail.net>
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tis 2015-09-29 klockan 13:54 -0500 skrev Rick Romero: > Quoting InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter <jg@internetx.com>: > > > Am 29.09.2015 um 20:04 schrieb Michael Fuckner: > >> On 9/29/2015 3:51 PM, InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter wrote: > >>> From my Experience using SATA Disks on SAS Controllers, no matter if > >>> theres an Expander between or not or mixed, those Setups keep on beeing > >>> flakey / unreliable. I might work under certain conditions, but its > >>> nothing you can bet on. > >>> > >>> Garret Damore (Illumos Project) describes the problem more detailed > here > >>> > >>> > http://garrett.damore.org/2010/08/why-sas-sata-is-not-such-great-idea.html > >>> > >> > >> come on, the article is 5 years old, some things changed since then! > >> > >> - MUX Boards are unreliable and expensive- long time since I last saw > >> those boards > > > > i am not talking about sata multiplexers, i am talking about sas > > expanders. no one ever should think that sata multiplexers are a > > reliable piece of hardware. they arent. > > > > this problems are design related, since Natacount on disks cant talk > > native with sas controllers. they still exist and occour. like you can > > see here. > > > > a few months ago i had a setup which had exactly what one whould expect > > from sata/sas mix. bus resets, device hangs and so on. in the end, it > > turned out that the indel dcs 3500 ssd wich where connected via a lsi > > sas 2008 where the root cause of all. after they where hooked onto the > > onboard sata ports, everything was fine. on the other side the intel dcs > > 3700 sata ssd works fine in sas/sata mix. you see, its nothing you can > > count on. stay with sas, or with sata and use proper controllers. > > I've seen both. I have two nice Asus boxes with 12 4GB SATA drives in > RAIDZ2, and they work wonderfully. > > OTOH, I recently built a new system with a 3 drive RAIDZ (using SSD), and > it constantly blew chunks (timeouts etc). After going through multiple > servers, drives,backplanes (both expanders and just generic hot-swap) and > controllers, it turns out the latest LSI firmware is garbage. You have to > downgrade the LSI firmware to 'p17' (IIRC) - and preferrably if you're > using ZFS, change it to IT firmware (for 'real' JBOD). It would seem as if fixes have gone into P19 that sounded like it should fix our issues but doesn´t seem like it´s done us difference: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg74313.html /Khelp
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