Coco Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 hi all, I have 2 disks in my array that failed and went to emulated mode in the last 4 days, both disks are not even a year old yet. First one is a 4 tb wd red plus, hosting all my TV shows, went down, rebuild the array, all good. Second one, 2 days later, is another wd red plus, 4tb, went down, rebuild it, all good for not even a day and went down again. I know both disk are good as I tested them et the result showed no errors. Any idea what's going on? could it be because they're to full, almost at capacity now? or because I am currently re-transcoding all my libraries? too much read and writed back to back ? I am restoring the one that failed twice now. any help would be appreciated as it is getting annoying to restore, taking a lot of time and it is close to impossible to use plex while doing it. Movies keep buffering...... thanx jarvis-diagnostics-20211123-0725.zip Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 Try upgrading the LSI firmware to latest, all p20 releases except 20.00.07.00 have known issues. 1 Quote Link to comment
Coco Posted November 23, 2021 Author Share Posted November 23, 2021 thanks I'll give this a try. newbie questions here, how foI know which firmware to use? how do I put the firmware on the flash drive, do I need to power down the server and put it on from à pc ? any chance this is going to brick my HBA ? just a little nervous about this has I never played around with this staff. thank you Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 8 hours ago, Coco said: could it be because they're to full, almost at capacity now? or because I am currently re-transcoding all my libraries? too much read and writed back to back ? These will not disable a disk. 1 Quote Link to comment
Coco Posted November 23, 2021 Author Share Posted November 23, 2021 understood, I'll give the HBA firmware update and post the result, thanx Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 11 hours ago, Coco said: how do I put the firmware on the flash drive, You can share the flash drive over SMB. 11 hours ago, Coco said: any chance this is going to brick my HBA ? It's a fairly safe procedure, maybe a power failure during could cause issues. 1 Quote Link to comment
Coco Posted November 24, 2021 Author Share Posted November 24, 2021 thanx, I'll give it à go later today, I'll let you know. appreciate the help Quote Link to comment
Coco Posted November 24, 2021 Author Share Posted November 24, 2021 ok, i have tried to flash it but here is the error i get: LSI Corporation SAS2 Flash Utility Version 20.00.00.00 (2014.09.18) Copyright (c) 2008-2014 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved Advanced Mode Set Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS: SAS2008(B2) Executing Operation: Flash Firmware Image Firmware Image has a Valid Checksum. Firmware Version 20.00.07.00 Firmware Image compatible with Controller. Valid NVDATA Image found. NVDATA Version 14.01.00.00 Checking for a compatible NVData image... NVDATA Device ID and Chip Revision match verified. NVDATA Versions Compatible. Valid Initialization Image verified. Valid BootLoader Image verified. ERROR: Cannot Flash IT Firmware over IR Firmware! Firmware Image Validation Failed! Due to error remaining commands will not be executed. Unable to Process Commands. Exiting SAS2Flash. any idea ? also here is the list all result LSI Corporation SAS2 Flash Utility Version 20.00.00.00 (2014.09.18) Copyright (c) 2008-2014 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS: SAS2008(B2) Num Ctlr FW Ver NVDATA x86-BIOS PCI Addr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 SAS2008(B2) 20.00.06.00 14.01.00.09 07.39.02.00 00:04:00:00 Finished Processing Commands Successfully. Exiting SAS2Flash. thanks Quote Link to comment
Solution JorgeB Posted November 24, 2021 Solution Share Posted November 24, 2021 That means it's using RAID firmware, ideally you'd crossflash to IT mode, there's a thread about that, but it's more complicated than just an update, and it can't be done inside Unraid, alternatively update it with RAID firmware to 20.00.07 and see if it helps. 1 Quote Link to comment
Coco Posted November 24, 2021 Author Share Posted November 24, 2021 ok thanks ill give it a go. which one is the better option you think ? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 1 hour ago, JorgeB said: ideally you'd crossflash to IT mode 1 Quote Link to comment
Coco Posted November 24, 2021 Author Share Posted November 24, 2021 yep that's what I figured. read the thread, I do not understand at all how to this. i'll keep reading and try to figure it out lol thanks for all the help Quote Link to comment
Coco Posted November 24, 2021 Author Share Posted November 24, 2021 for now till I figure it out I updated to IR 07, I'll see if it works while I try to figure out how to cross flash it to IT mode Quote Link to comment
Coco Posted December 1, 2021 Author Share Posted December 1, 2021 Good day, finally was able to flash to IT mod, turns out I was forgetting to put a ':' at the end of the line to access the thumb drive in EFI ..... doh!!!! anyway, it is now flsh to firmware 20.00.07 in IT mode. everything seems to be working fine for now, i'll repost if I get another error. just the rebuild process is going way faster since flash, don't know if it is related but went from 75MB/sec to 130 MB/sec ... thanks all for your help. Quote Link to comment
Coco Posted December 1, 2021 Author Share Posted December 1, 2021 LSI Corporation SAS2 Flash Utility Version 20.00.00.00 (2014.09.18) Copyright (c) 2008-2014 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS: SAS2008(B2) Controller Number : 0 Controller : SAS2008(B2) PCI Address : 00:04:00:00 SAS Address : 500605b-0-02c8-ccf4 NVDATA Version (Default) : 14.01.00.08 NVDATA Version (Persistent) : 14.01.00.08 Firmware Product ID : 0x2213 (IT) Firmware Version : 20.00.07.00 NVDATA Vendor : LSI NVDATA Product ID : SAS9211-8i BIOS Version : 07.39.02.00 UEFI BSD Version : N/A FCODE Version : N/A Board Name : SAS9211-8i Board Assembly : N/A Board Tracer Number : N/A Finished Processing Commands Successfully. Exiting SAS2Flash. Quote Link to comment
Coco Posted December 1, 2021 Author Share Posted December 1, 2021 just wanted to show, my acheivement ..... lol thanks again Quote Link to comment
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