New FreeNAS build, I have some SAS questions

[morningwon]

Hello freenas gurus!

I am finishing up my first official FreeNAS build. I have been toying around with FreeNAS for months now and I think that I now have a production unit. (no longer an experiment.)

Here is what I have:

TYAN s8229 2RU server with 12 hotswap bays (LSI SAS 2008), 4 sea-gate iron wolf 4TB NAS drives, 2 160GB intel SSD's for R/W cache 2 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4122 at 2.2ghz, and 32GB of ECC DDR3.

I have been reading up on SAS drives and I wasn't sure if its in IT mode. I ran these commands and this is what I get:

Code:

root@freenas:~ # dmesg | grep mpt
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present - tray open

root@freenas:~ # dmesg | grep mps
mps0: <Avago Technologies (LSI) SAS2008> port 0xb000-0xb0ff mem 0xfe43c000-0xfe43ffff,0xfe440000-0xfe47ffff irq 36 at device 0.0 on pci8
mps0: Firmware: 09.00.00.00, Driver: 21.02.00.00-fbsd
mps0: IOCCapabilities: 1285c<ScsiTaskFull,DiagTrace,SnapBuf,EEDP,TransRetry,EventReplay,HostDisc>
mps0: SAS Address for SATA device = 3c3c82328b8b553f
mps0: SAS Address for SATA device = d2404c61c4ecaa97
mps0: SAS Address for SATA device = 3c3c82328b6b644a
mps0: SAS Address for SATA device = d33f4860c4ecc79b
mps0: SAS Address for SATA device = 3c39713480744231
mps0: SAS Address for SATA device = 3c3c82328b8c3e48
mps0: SAS Address from SATA device = 3c3c82328b8b553f
mps0: SAS Address from SATA device = d2404c61c4ecaa97
mps0: SAS Address from SATA device = 3c3c82328b6b644a
mps0: SAS Address from SATA device = d33f4860c4ecc79b
mps0: SAS Address from SATA device = 3c39713480744231
mps0: SAS Address from SATA device = 3c3c82328b8c3e48
da4 at mps0 bus 0 scbus0 target 30 lun 0
da5 at mps0 bus 0 scbus0 target 31 lun 0
da1 at mps0 bus 0 scbus0 target 27 lun 0
da0 at mps0 bus 0 scbus0 target 26 lun 0
da3 at mps0 bus 0 scbus0 target 29 lun 0
da2 at mps0 bus 0 scbus0 target 28 lun 0
ses0 at mps0 bus 0 scbus0 target 20 lun 0

Is this a good sign?

I know that this is old equipment but this server was brand new wrapped in plastic in the box. It was supposed to be part of an install years ago but the project got scrapped and this server sat on the shelf never even powered on.

Thanks!

 

[Johnnie Black]

It's using the IT mode driver, so you're fine there, you should update the firmware though since it's ancient, current one is 20.00.07.00

 

[morningwon]

Thank you for the reply, do you know where I can find the firmware and the update utility? I found the bios for the system board but not the SAS firmware and update utility.

Another weird thing, this thing will boot a linux thumb drive, boots windows 7, and of course freenas but no matter what it will not boot a dos thumb drive (to update bios/firmware), it gives me a panic message. I tried both rufas and power iso to make the image for dos/open dos. I does not want to boot them. I went through all bios options.

Thanks!

 

[Johnnie Black]

sas2flash is included with FreeNAS and can be used to update the LSI firmware, as for the firmware if the HBA is onboard not sure if you can use the regular firmware, but would think so, but best to google it or ask Tyan's support.

 

[morningwon]

sas2flash is included with FreeNAS and can be used to update the LSI firmware, as for the firmware if the HBA is onboard not sure if you can use the regular firmware, but would think so, but best to google it or ask Tyan's support.

For some reason sas2flash on freenas wouldnt work, I cannot get open dos to boot. I used hirens boot cd and the 64bit version of sas2flash and it is now version 20. Thanks!

 

[xerxies]

For some reason sas2flash on freenas wouldnt work, I cannot get open dos to boot. I used hirens boot cd and the 64bit version of sas2flash and it is now version 20. Thanks!

Sorry to necrobump this super ancient thread, but @morningwon I also have a handful of Tyan boards that have integrated lsi2008 controllers that I haven't been able to find firmwares for. Did you end up using the standard IT firmware with success?