[SOLVED] Concerned my motherboard doesn't support HBA cards

[sniggil]

I plan to move an existing unraid from a Chenbro box and bought (abbreviated list):

• GIGABYTE Z590 VISION D LGA 1200 Intel Z590 ATX Motherboard

• LSI SAS 9207-8e in IT mode and a JBOD box

• and also a QNAP TL-D1600S JBOD box along with its PCIe SATA Interface Card (QXP-1600eS)

I adjusted the BIOS and have a trial version of unraid working without issue.  It's a huge upgrade from the dual Xeon L5640.  Unfortunately, I can not see either SATA card, only the MB provided ports.  After reviewing the forums for a few days and tinkering with the BIOS, I haven't been able to 'see' the cards.  Any advise or suggestions would be great.

Edited February 19, 2022 by sniggil

[Squid]

Which slot is the card in?  Did you change the BIOS settings to effectively disable slot 2 by forcing slot 1 to be x16?   Can you enter the "bios" of the LSI card?  Post your diagnostics

 

 

[sniggil]

I've placed it in PCIEX16 and checked the MB BIOS and the card does not show up, nor are any PCI slots selectable in the BIOS. They are greyed out. At this point I would not know how to enter the bios of the LSI card.  Attached are the diagnostics. 

 

pinfish-diagnostics-20211217-2212.zip

[Vr2Io]

 

It have report doesn't work, should be due to Unraid haven't driver for the SATA card (QXP-1600eS). But OP have detect the controller but you haven't.

 

 

 

9 hours ago, sniggil said:

LSI SAS 9207-8e in IT mode and a JBOD box

9207-8e also can't detect QNAP TL-D1600S ??

 

Edited December 18, 2021 by Vr2Io

[Squid]

The LSI is appearing

 

01:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: Broadcom / LSI SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [1000:0087] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Hewlett Packard Enterprise H221 / 9207-8e [1590:0042]
    Kernel driver in use: mpt3sas
    Kernel modules: mpt3sas

 

But, it's firmware is also I believe very out of date

Dec 17 19:11:04 PinFish kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: LSISAS2308: FWVersion(11.10.07.00), ChipRevision(0x01), BiosVersion(07.20.10.00)

I think that P20 is the version that you should be running.

 

 

[sniggil]

1 hour ago, Squid said:

I think that P20 is the version that you should be running.

Thank you. It's strange that I can not find it in the BIOS. I'll get the LSI BIOS updated as soon as I can get my hands on a windows box.  Dropping the QNAP card and using the LSI card as suggested by Vy2lo is making the system sluggish. I'll update the diagnostics file and respond to Vr2lo.

[sniggil]

2 hours ago, Vr2Io said:

9207-8e also can't detect QNAP TL-D1600S ??

I have tried that and yes, the 9207-8e has recognized the corresponding drives.  The system boots much slower, CPU usage is relatively high and the system is overall sluggish, such as when I assigned those drives and started the array.  Attached is an updated diagnostics file which seems to indicate some problems.  It may be related to the old firmware as Squid has pointed out.  I will look to get that updated asap.  If I can get this worked out and get a different card with 4 ports, the DL1600 may become a viable solution even if the QNAP card is not viable.

pinfish-diagnostics-20211218-0537.zip

[JorgeB]

29 minutes ago, sniggil said:

I'll get the LSI BIOS updated as soon as I can get my hands on a windows box.

You can do it using Unraid.

[Vr2Io]

Great, LSI HBA have detect the enclosure / disk.

 

2 hours ago, sniggil said:

CPU usage is relatively high and the system is overall sluggish

 

Not a good sign and have below error

 

Dec 18 01:20:34 PinFish kernel: sd 1:0:1:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI disk
Dec 18 01:20:34 PinFish kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: attempting task abort!scmd(0x000000001b9bb15f), outstanding for 30233 ms & timeout 30000 ms
Dec 18 01:20:34 PinFish kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdf] tag#2722 CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 00 00 02 08 00 01 f8 00
Dec 18 01:20:34 PinFish kernel: scsi target1:0:0: handle(0x0009), sas_address(0x4433221100000000), phy(0)
Dec 18 01:20:34 PinFish kernel: scsi target1:0:0: enclosure logical id(0x500605b005c78f60), slot(1) 
Dec 18 01:20:34 PinFish kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: task abort: SUCCESS scmd(0x000000001b9bb15f)
Dec 18 01:20:34 PinFish kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdf] tag#2722 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x03 driverbyte=0x00 cmd_age=32s
Dec 18 01:20:34 PinFish kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdf] tag#2722 CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 00 00 02 08 00 01 f8 00
Dec 18 01:20:34 PinFish kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 520 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 31 prio class 0

 

 

 

sdi sdg sdf sdh come from enclosure, quite weird have ASMT109x device there .... I expect you can't use the enclosure, pls also try update enclosure firmware as mention in previous post.

Edited December 18, 2021 by Vr2Io