I upgraded a system from OpenIndiana to FreeNAS a few months ago. At the same time, I purchased 5 more WD red drives, and went from 5x drives to 10x drives. The supermicro motherboard that I have has three slots. This is the motherboard that I have:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3400/X8SIL.cfm?IPMI=N
The motherboard has these pci-e slots:
2 (x8) PCI-E 2.0 slot
1 (x4) PCI-E (using x8 slot)
I have a 10gbit fiber card in one of the (x8) PCI-E 2.0 slot's, and the other two slots are filled with 92118i's. The last (x8) PCI-E 2.0 slot, and the other (x4) PCI-E (using x8 slot).
The system has been working good for the last few months. Today a scheduled scrub ran, and I am getting all sorts of checksum/read/write errors.
I had a situation like this before, it was when I upgraded to the latest (2 months ago) P20 firmware. I know there was a bug in this firmware previously, but there was an update to the P20 firmware that fixed this bug (w/ freenas). Everything should have been fine, but I downgraded to P19 anyways, and I did not have an issue after that.
Like I said, today I am. No changes in FreeNAS software (I have not upgraded).
Now, I did read something about having two of the same cards in two different slot types (x8 vs x4), and I am wondering if this is the issue. I could be that I have a bad 9201-8i two.
To make a long story short, I just purchased a 9201-16I to remove any slot issue (I do not even know if this exists), and also check for bad cards.
What firmware do I need to use for the 9201-16I?
What firmware do I need to use for the 9211-8i?
Have you heard of issues with different speed slots being used like I am?
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3400/X8SIL.cfm?IPMI=N
The motherboard has these pci-e slots:
2 (x8) PCI-E 2.0 slot
1 (x4) PCI-E (using x8 slot)
I have a 10gbit fiber card in one of the (x8) PCI-E 2.0 slot's, and the other two slots are filled with 92118i's. The last (x8) PCI-E 2.0 slot, and the other (x4) PCI-E (using x8 slot).
The system has been working good for the last few months. Today a scheduled scrub ran, and I am getting all sorts of checksum/read/write errors.
I had a situation like this before, it was when I upgraded to the latest (2 months ago) P20 firmware. I know there was a bug in this firmware previously, but there was an update to the P20 firmware that fixed this bug (w/ freenas). Everything should have been fine, but I downgraded to P19 anyways, and I did not have an issue after that.
Like I said, today I am. No changes in FreeNAS software (I have not upgraded).
Now, I did read something about having two of the same cards in two different slot types (x8 vs x4), and I am wondering if this is the issue. I could be that I have a bad 9201-8i two.
To make a long story short, I just purchased a 9201-16I to remove any slot issue (I do not even know if this exists), and also check for bad cards.
What firmware do I need to use for the 9201-16I?
What firmware do I need to use for the 9211-8i?
Have you heard of issues with different speed slots being used like I am?