Hi All,
Previously played around with VMs and various flavours of pre built NAS, Thecus, Synology & QNAP. My current setup is a simple one with Supermicro tower sitting in the garage with 4x seagate 16tb x16 Exos in Raid 10. Running Hyper-V, had been running ESXi previously but change of server from HP ML350P meant I switched over. Usual stuff on it, Plex, Home Automation, recursive DNS, gameservers etc.
Have recently been given a box of 6TB drives (30+) which were in a netapp previously, I have converted them all to 512 bytes and checked all the drives. Keeping Toshiba, HGST and Seagate only. Since I had multiples of these and none of them showed anything other than 100% on Crystal disk. So I know all the drives are good and are spinning up ok in the HP Z840 I used to conver them.
Thought Truenas would be a useful way to utilise some of the drives as a disk to disk back up for the Supermicro, using bits and pieces I have around the house. Starting point only and may see how it all works out.
Setup as follows:
Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H
Spent some time getting the adapter into IT mode, took a few goes but that bit seemed to work ok, intially had an issue with the disks not starting in the chassis, been messing around with it and have realised they were not starting due to the 3.3v on pin 3 that is resolved and the disks now start.
Now having gone from flashing adapter into IT mode and seeing no disks, I now have disks starting but cannot see my adapter.
From within the Truenas Shell, sas2flash -c 0 -list returns:
Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS: SAS2008(B2)
Controller Number : 0
Controller : SAS2008(B2)
PCI Address : 00:05:00:00
SAS Address : 5b82a72-0-ce7f-4f00
NVDATA Version (Default) : 14.01.00.08
NVDATA Version (Persistent) : 14.01.00.08
Firmware Product ID : 0x2213 (IT)
Firmware Version : 20.00.07.00
NVDATA Vendor : LSI
NVDATA Product ID : SAS9211-8i
BIOS Version : N/A
UEFI BSD Version : N/A
FCODE Version : N/A
Board Name : 6Gbps SAS HBA
Board Assembly : N/A
Board Tracer Number : N/A
However that was yesterday and looking at it today I am now getting this:
root@truenas[~]# sas2flash -listall
LSI Corporation SAS2 Flash Utility
Version 16.00.00.00 (2013.03.01)
Copyright (c) 2008-2013 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved
No LSI SAS adapters found! Limited Command Set Available!
ERROR: Command Not allowed without an adapter!
ERROR: Couldn't Create Command -listall
Exiting Program.
Originally I thought the disk issue was PCIe related and swapped slots, my guess is I have somehow killed my card in the process, 1st time for everything I suppose!
Anything I can do here other than order another card?
No change as a result of any of the above would welcome any thoughts here or suggestions to try?
Thanks in advance.
Biffa
Previously played around with VMs and various flavours of pre built NAS, Thecus, Synology & QNAP. My current setup is a simple one with Supermicro tower sitting in the garage with 4x seagate 16tb x16 Exos in Raid 10. Running Hyper-V, had been running ESXi previously but change of server from HP ML350P meant I switched over. Usual stuff on it, Plex, Home Automation, recursive DNS, gameservers etc.
Have recently been given a box of 6TB drives (30+) which were in a netapp previously, I have converted them all to 512 bytes and checked all the drives. Keeping Toshiba, HGST and Seagate only. Since I had multiples of these and none of them showed anything other than 100% on Crystal disk. So I know all the drives are good and are spinning up ok in the HP Z840 I used to conver them.
Thought Truenas would be a useful way to utilise some of the drives as a disk to disk back up for the Supermicro, using bits and pieces I have around the house. Starting point only and may see how it all works out.
Setup as follows:
Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H
- i7-3770K
- Boot Drive 128GB SK Hynix mSata
- 32GB (4x8GB Corsair Vengeance LP)
- 6TB SAS tried with Toshiba MGO4SCA60EE & other drives too just in case.
- Dell Perc H200 with SFF-8087 to four SFF-8482 (with SATA power)
- 700W PSU in an ancient but very solid Coolermaster Praetorian case.
Spent some time getting the adapter into IT mode, took a few goes but that bit seemed to work ok, intially had an issue with the disks not starting in the chassis, been messing around with it and have realised they were not starting due to the 3.3v on pin 3 that is resolved and the disks now start.
Now having gone from flashing adapter into IT mode and seeing no disks, I now have disks starting but cannot see my adapter.
From within the Truenas Shell, sas2flash -c 0 -list returns:
Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS: SAS2008(B2)
Controller Number : 0
Controller : SAS2008(B2)
PCI Address : 00:05:00:00
SAS Address : 5b82a72-0-ce7f-4f00
NVDATA Version (Default) : 14.01.00.08
NVDATA Version (Persistent) : 14.01.00.08
Firmware Product ID : 0x2213 (IT)
Firmware Version : 20.00.07.00
NVDATA Vendor : LSI
NVDATA Product ID : SAS9211-8i
BIOS Version : N/A
UEFI BSD Version : N/A
FCODE Version : N/A
Board Name : 6Gbps SAS HBA
Board Assembly : N/A
Board Tracer Number : N/A
However that was yesterday and looking at it today I am now getting this:
root@truenas[~]# sas2flash -listall
LSI Corporation SAS2 Flash Utility
Version 16.00.00.00 (2013.03.01)
Copyright (c) 2008-2013 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved
No LSI SAS adapters found! Limited Command Set Available!
ERROR: Command Not allowed without an adapter!
ERROR: Couldn't Create Command -listall
Exiting Program.
Originally I thought the disk issue was PCIe related and swapped slots, my guess is I have somehow killed my card in the process, 1st time for everything I suppose!
Anything I can do here other than order another card?
- Have removed and re-sited the card in both PCIe (x16) slots
- Have reset BIOS to Defaults and Optimised defaults.
- Have tried to boot with and without the SFF-8087 attached.
Thanks in advance.
Biffa