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Date:      Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:29:43 -0500
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Freebsd current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: SAS/SATA controllers: 8 port that support 8TB Drives
Message-ID:  <5366dceb38e43bc5bd1e84cb90ea31ac@lerctr.org>
In-Reply-To: <9ad99f2c-3d63-ccab-f730-e355f0297d72@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <96f9a47659ac052b8d806bb9b7ab2b51@lerctr.org> <1a795a4e-2b1e-2cba-484b-52811546e277@FreeBSD.org> <97624e2a4e0887ede029e71c47bb6060@lerctr.org> <9ad99f2c-3d63-ccab-f730-e355f0297d72@FreeBSD.org>

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On 06/17/2022 5:24 pm, 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 bought 2 of these:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/194910024856
to replace the 2 mfi(4)'s

Hopefully I can just move the controllers and TrueNAS 13.0-RELEASE will 
just notice them.
and pick up the new 8T disks.

let me know if I'm setting myself up for failure.

-- 
Larry Rosenman                     http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
Phone: +1 214-642-9640                 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org
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