On 06/17/2022 5:24 pm, Alexander Motin wrote:
On 17.06.2022 18:16, Larry Rosenman wrote:
On 06/17/2022 5:08 pm, Alexander Motin wrote:
On 17.06.2022 11:59, Larry Rosenman wrote:
I'm looking to upgrade the controllers in my TrueNAS box to something that will support 8TB drives because apparently my LSI 2108 controllers do not support 8TB drives.

What's the communities recommendation?
needs to support SFF connectors for a total of 4 SFF connectors, as I have 16 slots.

We at iX are still using LSI/Broadcom HBAs, just moved from long
discontinued mps(4) to newer mpr(4).  And I don't believe the problem
is directly related to capacity.  According to my observations it may
be Seagate HDDs of/above certain (8TB) generation.  We do not use
Seagate HDDs in our products, so about that instability I only heard
from forums and TrueNAS community user reports.

This is a mfi(4) set of controllers, and a ST80000Nm0045 8TB (CMR) drive.

Is this a bad combo?

mfi0: 9973 (708793330s/0x0002/WARN) - PD 00(e0xfc/s3) is not supported
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): Retrying command, 3 more tries remain
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): Retrying command, 2 more tries remain
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): Retrying command, 1 more tries remain
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): Retrying command, 0 more tries remain
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 00 00 24 00
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
(probe0:mfi0:0:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted

mfi0 Physical Drives:
 0 (  932G) UNCONFIGURED GOOD <ST8000NM0045-1RL UG07 serial=ZA1AC912> SATA E1:S3

mfi(4) are RAIDs, not HBAs.  We do not recommend RAIDs with TrueNAS
due to problems with hot-plug, disk identification, etc. and so have
limited experience with them.  But I know some of LSI RAIDs can be
reflashed into equivalent HBAs, so if they share the hardware, I can
speculate that they may share some issues.
I bought 2 of these:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/194910024856
to replace the 2 mfi(4)'s

Hopefully I can just move the controllers and TrueNAS 13.0-RELEASE will just notice them.
and pick up the new 8T disks.

let me know if I'm setting myself up for failure.

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