While @wintermute000 is trying to disable staggered spin-up, I'm trying to get it enabled. Here are the relevant pieces:
I have, however, been able to enable PUIS on the drives using the HDAT2 utility. But once I do that, the LSI configuration utility can't recognize the drives and FreeNAS won't finish booting. FreeNAS booting hangs with an endless sequence of this message:
Other points to consider:
What am I missing? Is it not possible to get staggered spin-up with this combination of hardware?
- FreeNAS 9.3-RELEASE
- SuperMicro X10SRi-F motherboard
- LSI SAS 9211-8i controller flashed to P16 IT-mode firmware
- 4x WD30EFRX HDs (to be expanded to 24 soon)
- NORCO RPC-4224 chassis
I have, however, been able to enable PUIS on the drives using the HDAT2 utility. But once I do that, the LSI configuration utility can't recognize the drives and FreeNAS won't finish booting. FreeNAS booting hangs with an endless sequence of this message:
Code:
(probe0:mps0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00 length 36 SMID 110 terminated ioc 804b scsi 0 state c xfer 0
Other points to consider:
- I currently have the spin-up delay set to 1 second in the LSI configuration. Max targets to spin up = 2. I've tried setting the LSI "Boot support" option to all of its possibilities without success and currently have it set to "Enabled OS only".
- Attaching the drives (with PUIS enabled) directly to the motherboard causes them to spin up at boot. In other words, the motherboard's controller can recognize and spin them up just fine.
- At one point I had PUIS disabled on the drives and booted into a portable Windows 8.1 environment. I spun down the drives manually using an HD utility. Then, when I tried to access the drives again, they spun up in a staggered fashion. If I enable PUIS, however, and then boot into Windows, it can't see the drives at all.
What am I missing? Is it not possible to get staggered spin-up with this combination of hardware?