March 8, 20215 yr Hi - this has now happened three times, but earlier I wasn't sure whether it was because my Flash drive was full up. Drive 1 and 24 went into error state separately, and after a flash replacement, disk 24 has just done it again. Disks 1 & 24 are the newest drives in my array, and running a check on them has returned no errors. Unassigned, start, stop, reassign and rebuild returned to normal for a day or so. All 24 data drives are connected to a Supermicro backplane via a reverse breakout SAS cable from 4 SAS ports on the motherboard. Didn't have a problem on 6.8.3, but not pointing fingers as have replaced fans recently (case rebuild). Got a diagnostics file this time. Kinda sure drives are OK, but any idea what keeps happening? Edited April 8, 20242 yr by Cessquill Removed diagnostics file for safety
March 9, 20215 yr Community Expert There's a known issue with LSI + ST8000VN004, if you can't use another controller for those disks best to stick with v6.8 for now.
March 9, 20215 yr one of my drives has been doing this also since 6.9.0 but its a ST4000VN008, only done it twice though. I do have two ST8000VN004 as a parity drive no errors on those.
March 9, 20215 yr Author Ahh, thank you. I had seen that in the upgrade thread and in the back of my mind I wondered whether it applied to me. Don't have any other way of connecting them at the moment, so I'll look to roll back once this rebuild finishes. Tbank you
March 9, 20215 yr when you rollback it appears the cache drive pulls itself from the pool, it's in unassigned you will need to add it back in. Just in case you freak out like me.
March 9, 20215 yr Community Expert 14 minutes ago, Maticks said: I do have two ST8000VN004 as a parity drive no errors on those. Are they connected to an LSI? If yes please post diags just to see if there's something different.
March 9, 20215 yr 10 minutes ago, JorgeB said: Are they connected to an LSI? If yes please post diags just to see if there's something different. Yes mine are connected to a 9211-8i, but its been rebooted since the error because the tips and tweaks plugin broke my webui and i had to remove it and reboot the system. I haven't had errors yet, but if they appear again ill post them. it was 26 read errors that popped up. I do have two other ST4000VN008 also plugged into an LSI's cards not having problems and 2x ST8000VN004 but those are plugged into the onboard SATA Controller of my motherboard. Edited March 9, 20215 yr by Maticks
March 9, 20215 yr Author 21 minutes ago, Maticks said: when you rollback it appears the cache drive pulls itself from the pool, it's in unassigned you will need to add it back in. Just in case you freak out like me. Thanks. I've got a flash backup here that I should be good to copy over and reboot. The only thing I'm wary about is that I've changed my USB stick since upgrading - not sure whether it'll still show up as licensed on a previous install.
March 9, 20215 yr 3 minutes ago, Cessquill said: Thanks. I've got a flash backup here that I should be good to copy over and reboot. The only thing I'm wary about is that I've changed my USB stick since upgrading - not sure whether it'll still show up as licensed on a previous install. you should be able to go to tools/ update os and click restore on the right. it rolls it all back you just do that and reboot.
March 9, 20215 yr Community Expert 43 minutes ago, Maticks said: and 2x ST8000VN004 but those are plugged into the onboard SATA Controller of my motherboard. For now I'm only interest in the ST8000VN004 when connected to an LSI.
March 9, 20215 yr Author 19 minutes ago, JorgeB said: For now I'm only interest in the ST8000VN004 when connected to an LSI. Just so I can learn something, is LSI referring to the SAS ports on my motherboard? I have enough SATA ports for the 4 drives in question, but not enough space or molex/SATA power splitters. And when a drive goes into error state because of this, is rebuilding its contents the only way to get it back into the array?
March 9, 20215 yr Community Expert 5 minutes ago, Cessquill said: is LSI referring to the SAS ports on my motherboard? Yes, the LSI SAS/SATA controller, problem wouldn't exist if you could connect them to the onboard Intel SATA ports.
March 9, 20215 yr Author 2 minutes ago, JorgeB said: Yes, the LSI SAS/SATA controller, problem wouldn't exist if you could connect them to the onboard Intel SATA ports. Thanks. Might be able to shuffle internal drives into the hotswap bays and just about do it - I'll have a think.
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