Simmer Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 (edited) Hello! Yesterday I migrated my Unraid instance over to a new motherboard and chassis, same CPUs, RAM, and of course drives. Upon booting, Unraid will get to a screen (connected vga to box) with lots of error logs and hang there for over 15 minutes it seems - haven't actually timed it. It will eventually successfully boot, and runs fine once there. BIOS on new board is up to date. IPMI doesn't show any issues. Below are hardware specs, and attached is my diagnostic pull. Thank you!! - EDIT: Forgot to mention, Unraid 6.8.3 Hardware specs - old, working: Supermicro X9DRL-IF rev 1.01 mobo Dual Xeon 2667 v2 CPUs 8x8 DDR3 ECC (I think 1600?) Super Flower Leadex III 850w Gold Cheapo Sata expander cards (all drives were connected individual sata cables Fractal Design Define 7 tower chassis Hardware specs - new, working but with prolonged boot time SuperMicro 6047R-E1R36N is the overall server model - same board, backplanes, chassis, etc. Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ motherboard Dual Xeon 2667 v2 CPUs (same as before) 8x8 DDR3 ECC (I think 1600?) - (same as before) - placed into correct spots per Supermicro manual Supermicro 1200 sq platinum PSU SAS2 backplanes front and rear Dual LSI 9211-8i IT mode HBAs So, same CPU, RAM, HDDs, SSDs, but new everything else. Unraid boots just fine eventually after this weird delay, runs normal no issues (so far). I ran "fix common problems" plugin, but no errors, just a couple of minor recommendations. In old setup it booted very quick so this is definitely abnormal. Thank you very much for any help you can provide. Cheers tower-diagnostics-20210214-0855.zip Edited February 15, 2021 by Simmer Solved Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Problem appears to be the 2nd LSI, it's timing out waiting for the devices, try swapping them around or using different slots if available. Quote Link to comment
Simmer Posted February 15, 2021 Author Share Posted February 15, 2021 5 hours ago, JorgeB said: Problem appears to be the 2nd LSI, it's timing out waiting for the devices, try swapping them around or using different slots if available. Interesting, thank you! Does it say which one is timing out, perhaps based on which disks are connected? Or if you could point me in the direction of where you found that info I'd appreciate it. I wonder why it's having those time out issues, all of the disks work (disks split between the two HBAs). Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 2 minutes ago, Simmer said: Does it say which one is timing out All of them, it takes around 80 secs for each. Quote Link to comment
Simmer Posted February 15, 2021 Author Share Posted February 15, 2021 That's really weird. Okay, I will try swapping them around to different PCI slots. When you say it takes 80 sec for each, do you mean 80 sec for each LSI card or 80 sec for each disk connected to the LSI card? The latter would make sense for the 15 minute boot time. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 27 minutes ago, Simmer said: or 80 sec for each disk connected to the LSI card? this Quote Link to comment
Simmer Posted February 15, 2021 Author Share Posted February 15, 2021 Switching PCI slots doesn't change, still does the same thing. Is there any way to tell exactly what the problem is? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 1 minute ago, Simmer said: Is there any way to tell exactly what the problem is? No sorry, don't remember ever seeing anything like this before, If you swap HBAs does the problem follow the HBA or stay with the same disks? Quote Link to comment
Simmer Posted February 15, 2021 Author Share Posted February 15, 2021 19 minutes ago, JorgeB said: No sorry, don't remember ever seeing anything like this before, If you swap HBAs does the problem follow the HBA or stay with the same disks? When going to swap HBAs I noticed mis-matched cables. So what I had done is connect one HBA to both front and rear backplanes, then connected the front backplane again to a second HBA. So the timeout was the second HBA wanting to connect the disks, but the disks were already on the first HBA. Silly mistake, I removed the unnecessary HBA and cable, and it works great now Cheers, thank you very much for your help. You pointed me in the exact right direction! 1 Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 8 minutes ago, Simmer said: then connected the front backplane again to a second HBA. So the timeout was the second HBA wanting to connect the disks, That would explain it. Quote Link to comment
Simmer Posted February 15, 2021 Author Share Posted February 15, 2021 Yep. I'm silly. Thanks again Quote Link to comment
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