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Wow, P14 firmware for SAS2 is ancient. I'm surprised it's been remotely stable, the lead-up to P16 was janky as hell.
Although... Have you tried different PSUs on the MD1200? It could be bad power... Hell, just the other day I thought I had a pair of bad LTO-3 tape drives and it turned out to almost certainly be a problem with the tape library's PSUs (almost certainly because I'm not throwing money into that thing, I just need my predecessors' data back!).
That's what I'd always heard (and I have an MD1200 at work I'd like to repurpose as the sneakernet/engineering needs disk chassis, so I'd hate to learn of weird incompatibilities).Something else worth noting is I have been using a very similar setup in production at another location with the below hardware.
Same ESXI 6.7u3, but TrueNAS is on v12.0 while I am using v13 on the crashing system.
R720xd LSI SAS9207-8i for internal 12 bays (completed before H710 cross flash had been developed)
MD1200 connected via LSI SAS9207-8e
Same exact model SATA WD HDD's used in the R720xd, MD1200, and the setup I am having stability issues with.
Here is the firmware list on this similar, but stable system running for a few years.
Let us know. Could very well be bad firmware.I have ordered a RS232 service cable for the MD1200 Control Module and it was delivered today. Will take me a little time to get connected to it as I am not yet familiar with doing so, not sure how much help it will be, but certainly wanted to have it as an option,
Although... Have you tried different PSUs on the MD1200? It could be bad power... Hell, just the other day I thought I had a pair of bad LTO-3 tape drives and it turned out to almost certainly be a problem with the tape library's PSUs (almost certainly because I'm not throwing money into that thing, I just need my predecessors' data back!).