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Date:      Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:55:50 -0500
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.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:  <f31ff2942ca3d3f1389f21157986ce46@lerctr.org>
In-Reply-To: <32B35839-84F9-4BDC-B8B5-AF576E21041C@freebsd.org>
References:  <e7db07b6-4098-453e-8422-7d20ae01522e@FreeBSD.org> <32B35839-84F9-4BDC-B8B5-AF576E21041C@freebsd.org>

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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
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