Treytor

I bought a used SuperMicro 4u case on ebay, and didn't know about the 2TB drive limit with the SAS1 backplane that came with it and am now paying the price. Does anyone have an extra BPN-SAS2-846EL1 they'd be willing to part with to help me out? I'd like to not have to spend as much as I spent on the server initially to get this backplane. Thanks!

Yeah... Once I get a hold of the supplier (a large ebay refurbished seller) I may ask if they have a SAS2 backplane they'd be willing to sell me minus the difference of the broken SAS1 backplane. This is 3 times now that I've moved all 20 drives from one server to the other. Frankly I'm surprised the old one still fires up each time without issue. Thanks again for your feedback guys!

So I haven't made much headway, but in my troubleshooting I went into the LSI card's BIOS and found a screen where it lists all the connected devices. This screen automatically refreshes when you add or remove devices, so I proceeded to remove ALL the drives and tried a single 2TB spare in each bay to make sure they all work. Surprisingly, the drive didn't even spin up on 4 of the 24 bays. This is reproducible with other drives in those "dead" bays as well. So I believe I had a faulty backplane to begin with. I will contact the seller to see if I can get a replacement and keep you posted. Thanks again for your help!

Hmm! The motherboard is a Supermicro X8DTE-F (REV 1.3), and the card was in slot 3 which is PCI-E 2.0x4. I just moved it to slot 4 which is PCI-E 2.0x8 (and the fastest available on this board). Booting now... I poked around a bit in the BIOS of the card and didn't see anything obviously out of whack. It did recognize the backplane as supporting up to 24 devices. Weird... Those didn't come up when I searched. That's a little better I suppose. Thank you!

Interesting... Waiting for it to boot up now. Still taking a LONG time to boot up and initialize. Would there be any reason your Dell Perc H310 would work and my LSI 9210-8i wouldn't?

Trying that now, thank you. Do you have drives bigger than 2TB on your backplane? What controller are you using with it exactly? Thanks again for your feedback!

Yeah, they're also $700 on ebay...

It has 3 ports. I've been plugging J1 and J2 into my controller, as that's how it was with the Adaptec 5805 controller. I was under the impression that J0 was for hooking to another (possibly external) backplane?

So that card arrived today and I installed it, but still having some problems. It took FOREVER to initialize (longer than 10 minutes), and when it finally did, none of my drives were visible to UNRAID. I tried removing them all and just putting 2 spare drives (2TB and 5TB) and that seemed to work just fine, so I don't think there's a size limitation on the controller card or the backplane with the >2TB drive, but for some reason when I plug them all in (20 drives, currently) it completely fails. Any ideas? Do you think it's the backplane that might be causing the problems?

Thanks for the reply, I posted a new thread about it here if you're interested in my findings: https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=56030.0

Okay, ordered. Hopefully this works! Thank you

Would this work? - http://www.ebay.com/itm/UNRAID-IT-Mode-LSI-9210-8i-SAS-SATA-8-port-PCI-E-6Gb-s-Controller-Card-FREENAS-/142233544984?hash=item211dc7a918:g:zEwAAOSw44BYbDdQ

I just repeated the procedure but proceeded to wipe the config and start a new array, and assign the 2 drives to see if it picked it up. That did not work, and UNRAID said the drives were unmountable. I had to format them to bring the now empty array online through the Adaptec controller / backplane. Side note: I now notice the drive temps and SMART data is not accessible through the adaptec controller / backplane as well... Ugh, this is turning into a nightmare! Thanks again for your input, guys. I tried it but it doesn't really work. The controller times out while waiting for the drives to spin up, and if I proceed anyway UNRAID throws a bunch of errors and a few drives are missing. The missing drives appear to be random each reboot, as well. I only tried it a few times though so I don't know for certain what might be going on here. Do you know if an LSI based controller will be able to read SMART data / drive temps through the backplane?

Okay, so I just made a quick new array with 2 drives (no parity) directly connected to the motherboard's SATA ports and copied a few files over. I then powered down and moved the drives over to the Adaptec controller / backplane, initialized them in the controller's BIOS (as JBOD), then booted into UNRAID. Interestingly the drives showed up in UNRAID (with the same identification serial numbers), but UNRAID reported the drives as being wrong. I figured this means the controller was in fact destructively wiping the drives. Out of curiosity I tried moving them back to the mobo SATA connectors, and the array came back online with the files intact! Very perplexing... The Adaptec controller initialization is NOT destructive, but it's doing something to cause UNRAID to not recognize the drives. Any ideas?

I'm in the process of moving all my drives back to the old enclosure while I figure this out (Plex server downtime isn't fun). That's a good idea, I think I will try that.

I suppose the question is what SAS card will work best with the BPN-SAS-846EL1 backplane and allow me to use drives formerly used on the AOC-SASLP-MV8 controller. I'm also seeing some whispers of this particular backplane not supporting drives over 2TB, but nothing definite. Is anyone able to shed some light on that? Thanks again!

Thank you for the reply! In the Adaptec card's BIOS it does "allow" me to specify each drive as JBOD, but I have to initialize them first. That's the part that scares me. I did just try putting one of my AOC-SASLP-MV8 cards in, and that kind of works? It times out when spinning up drives, but if I proceed anyway UNRAID sees them, but a few drives are missing. Something isn't quite right... Yes, I did take note of my drives before doing this, thank you!

Hey guys! I'm in the process of upgrading and moving my 20 drive array into a 24 drive SuperMicro 4u enclosure I picked up off ebay. It has an an Adaptec 5805 controller and a BPN-SAS-846EL1 backplane. My previous 20 drive enclosure was driven by 2 x Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 controllers with the Norco SAS backplane. All my drives show up on the Adaptec controller initialization screen, but then it says "no logical drives found". Once UNRAID boots up, it's unable to see any of my drives. Looking at the Adaptec documentation it says I have to "initialize" the drives in the Adaptec BIOS, even for JBOD. I have not done this, as I fear it will erase the drives. It's 65 TB of data and reformatting the drives is not an option. Will initializing the drives really erase them like i suspect? Did I just blow it by getting an enclosure with this adaptec controller? Thanks!

I was wondering the same thing. I'm in the process of upgrading my 20 drive array into a 24 drive enclosure with an Adaptec 5805 controller. The 20 drives in my previous enclosure were driven by 2 x Supermicro SAS controllers (don't have the specific model handy at the moment). On boot the drives show up on the adaptec controller initialization screen, but then it says "no logical drives found". UNRAID is unable to see any of my drives. This is 65 TB of data, so reformatting the drives is obviously not an option...

Yeah, looks like the same problem again. The script that detects the latest version isn't reporting it - http://plex.baconopolis.net/latest.php It should be reporting https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.1.0.2611-ba905d2/plexmediaserver_1.1.0.2611-ba905d2_amd64.deb I just sent a tweet to the author of the script to let him know. That sorted it last time for me. Edit: He fixed it and it's working for me.

A new version of Plex (1.0.1.2396-c094d0d) is out for plexpass members, and the docker is failing to grab the latest version again. Just a heads up! I see from your previous posts that the needo docker uses your script to get the latest version - http://plex.baconopolis.net/latest.php Right now it's reporting an old build - https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.0.0.2261-a17e99e/plexmediaserver_1.0.0.2261-a17e99e_amd64.deb While the latest is actually - https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.0.1.2396-c094d0d/plexmediaserver_1.0.1.2396-c094d0d_amd64.deb Is there any way to manually override this script and use our own URL to download plex? I tried adding a VERSION variable in the docker settings and setting it to 1.0.1.2396-c094d0d but that didn't seem to work. Thanks!

Working great for me now, thanks!

It seems like this docker was broken with the latest update of plex to version 1.0.

Came here to post about my plex docker (now version 1.0) not updating. Looks like I'm not the only one.

As I suspected, xfs_repair didn't fix anything. I figured out how to install TestDisk on my server and am now running it. How do I know what partition table type to choose? TestDisk is detecting EFI GPT, but another thread here says to choose Intel... Which is it?