BobCochran
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Greetings!
I have a FreeNAS system as described in my signature block below. I built the system at a time when I did not know very much about LSI products, so I installed two SAS9220-8i adapters purchased on Ebay. I believe they are rebranded as an IBM HBA.
I have not kept the overall system up to date in terms of FreeNAS version upgrades. It worked very well, and the user was very happy and did not want the system taken down. Over many months we both effectively forgot it.
This evening, one of the two adapters has died, and the system is unusable. When I boot the system, this text shows up first:
Then I see this message:
..then I'm presented with a list of devices that appear to be associated with HBA 0. The first line identifies the firmware revision I think:
Then after FreeNAS appears to boot, I get many error messages that reference 'SATA passthru failure' and other messages that read like this:
Question: is this sequence of messages and the error messages themselves consistent with an LSI adapter failing?
How do I fix the issue?
I do have a spare LSI9220-8i adapter. However, I must flash this into IT mode with the same firmware revision as the still-living adapter. I assume that I can do this, and just swap the new adapter (properly flashed, of course) and boot the system up and it will work as before. Does my assumption seem correct?
Another option is, I could buy a new LSI adapter entirely set entirely. I'm really out of date now on how to build a FreeNAS system in 2016. If it makes sense to buy a new LSI adapter, what should I get? Would such an adapter work with the latest release of FreeNAS?
Thanks a ton for your help!
I have a FreeNAS system as described in my signature block below. I built the system at a time when I did not know very much about LSI products, so I installed two SAS9220-8i adapters purchased on Ebay. I believe they are rebranded as an IBM HBA.
I have not kept the overall system up to date in terms of FreeNAS version upgrades. It worked very well, and the user was very happy and did not want the system taken down. Over many months we both effectively forgot it.
This evening, one of the two adapters has died, and the system is unusable. When I boot the system, this text shows up first:
Code:
LSI CORPORATION MPT SAS2 BIOS MPT2BIOS-7.25.00.00 (2012.02.17) Copyright 2000-2012 LSI Corporation Initializing.../
Then I see this message:
Code:
Adapter configuration may have changed, reconfiguration is suggested! Searching for devices at HBA 0...
..then I'm presented with a list of devices that appear to be associated with HBA 0. The first line identifies the firmware revision I think:
Code:
LSI SAS2008-IT 13.00.01.00
Then after FreeNAS appears to boot, I get many error messages that reference 'SATA passthru failure' and other messages that read like this:
Code:
mpssas_fw_work: failed to add device with handle 0xe mpssas_prepare_remove 476 : invalid handle 0xe mps_config_get_sas_device_pg0: page read with error; iocstatus = 0x22 ...
Question: is this sequence of messages and the error messages themselves consistent with an LSI adapter failing?
How do I fix the issue?
I do have a spare LSI9220-8i adapter. However, I must flash this into IT mode with the same firmware revision as the still-living adapter. I assume that I can do this, and just swap the new adapter (properly flashed, of course) and boot the system up and it will work as before. Does my assumption seem correct?
Another option is, I could buy a new LSI adapter entirely set entirely. I'm really out of date now on how to build a FreeNAS system in 2016. If it makes sense to buy a new LSI adapter, what should I get? Would such an adapter work with the latest release of FreeNAS?
Thanks a ton for your help!