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Date:      Sat, 18 Jun 2022 01:20:09 +0200
From:      Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org>
To:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc:        Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, Freebsd current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: SAS/SATA controllers: 8 port that support 8TB Drives
Message-ID:  <736314DA-354C-465C-8D8C-AF67AAD68F5D@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <f31ff2942ca3d3f1389f21157986ce46@lerctr.org>
References:  <f31ff2942ca3d3f1389f21157986ce46@lerctr.org>

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> On 18. Jun 2022, at 00:57, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> wrote:
> =EF=BB=BFOn 06/17/2022 5:48 pm, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>>> On 18. Jun 2022, at 00:31, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> =EF=BB=BF
>>>> 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 somethin=
g 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) dri=
ve.
>>>>> 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=3DZA1AC912=
> 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 ex=
perience with them.  But I know some of LSI RAIDs can be reflashed into equi=
valent HBAs, so if they share the hardware, I can speculate that they may sh=
are some issues.
>>> I've just noticed "932G" instead of "8000G".  It is obviously a bigger p=
roblem than what we heard for HBAs.  It looks like a kind of problems that s=
hould 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)

Ok, that=E2=80=99s sad (and explains the wrong size calculation as 4096/512=3D=
8).

Is this in HBA mode? (Like Alexander suggested, re-/crossflashing using an I=
T firmware might be an option). What controller / firmware image version is i=
t?

-m


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