December 31, 20214 yr Hi everyone I've a Dell R730XD and i've bought an Dell H200E PCI Card on Ebay , already in IT mode. I'll buy an extension array next month. How can i see if my card works ? I don't see my card on idrac interface -> Controller or in Unraid. Can you help me please ?
December 31, 20214 yr Author with the lspci command : 83:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03) Subsystem: Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA Adapter Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 121 NUMA node: 1 IOMMU group: 66 Region 0: I/O ports at 8000 [size=256] Region 1: Memory at c8040000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Region 3: Memory at c8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [68] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 4096 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset+ SlotPowerLimit 0.000W DevCtl: CorrErr+ NonFatalErr+ FatalErr+ UnsupReq+ RlxdOrd+ ExtTag+ PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ FLReset- MaxPayload 256 bytes, MaxReadReq 4096 bytes DevSta: CorrErr- NonFatalErr- FatalErr- UnsupReq- AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 5GT/s, Width x8, ASPM L0s, Exit Latency L0s <64ns ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp- LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 5GT/s (ok), Width x8 (ok) TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range BC, TimeoutDis+ NROPrPrP- LTR- 10BitTagComp- 10BitTagReq- OBFF Not Supported, ExtFmt- EETLPPrefix- EmergencyPowerReduction Not Supported, EmergencyPowerReductionInit- FRS- TPHComp- ExtTPHComp- AtomicOpsCap: 32bit- 64bit- 128bitCAS- DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 65ms to 210ms, TimeoutDis- LTR- OBFF Disabled, AtomicOpsCtl: ReqEn- LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis- Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS- Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB, EqualizationComplete- EqualizationPhase1- EqualizationPhase2- EqualizationPhase3- LinkEqualizationRequest- Retimer- 2Retimers- CrosslinkRes: unsupported Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data pcilib: sysfs_read_vpd: read failed: Input/output error Not readable Capabilities: [a8] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [c0] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=15 Masked- Vector table: BAR=1 offset=0000e000 PBA: BAR=1 offset=0000f800 Capabilities: [100 v1] Advanced Error Reporting UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol- UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt+ UnxCmplt+ RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol- UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP+ FCP+ CmpltTO+ CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC+ UnsupReq- ACSViol- CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- AdvNonFatalErr- CEMsk: RxErr+ BadTLP+ BadDLLP+ Rollover+ Timeout+ AdvNonFatalErr+ AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, ECRCGenCap+ ECRCGenEn+ ECRCChkCap+ ECRCChkEn+ MultHdrRecCap- MultHdrRecEn- TLPPfxPres- HdrLogCap- HeaderLog: 04008001 80180003 83010000 dcf53632 Capabilities: [138 v1] Power Budgeting <?> Kernel driver in use: mpt3sas Kernel modules: mpt3sas unraid-6.9.2.txt tower-diagnostics-20211231-1644.zip
December 31, 20214 yr When you mentioned not being detected by Unraid I assumed not detected by Linux, it's being detected by Unraid, it's in RAID mode and with a very old firmware, so it should be flashed to firmware 20.00.07.00 IT mode: Dec 31 16:29:04 Tower kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: LSISAS2008: FWVersion(07.15.08.00), ChipRevision(0x03), BiosVersion(07.02.04.00) Dec 31 16:29:04 Tower kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: Protocol=(Initiator,Target), Capabilities=(Raid,TLR,EEDP,Snapshot Buffer,Diag Trace Buffer,Task Set Full,NCQ)
December 31, 20214 yr Just now, JorgeB said: it's in RAID mode Well not sure now, these contradict themselves: Just now, JorgeB said: Protocol=(Initiator,Target) Just now, JorgeB said: Capabilities=(Raid
December 31, 20214 yr Could be the old firmware, try updating to latest, this is how it should look like: Dec 8 13:46:06 Tower7 kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: LSISAS2008: FWVersion(20.00.07.00), ChipRevision(0x03), BiosVersion(00.00.00.00) Dec 8 13:46:06 Tower7 kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: Protocol=(Initiator,Target), Capabilities=(TLR,EEDP,Snapshot Buffer,Diag Trace Buffer,Task Set Full,NCQ)
December 31, 20214 yr Author Thanks for your help ! I can make the update with a Linux live image on my dell R730XD ? There is no risk for my Dell H330 PERC RAID ?
December 31, 20214 yr 12 minutes ago, aldask775 said: I can make the update with a Linux live image on my dell R730XD ? You can use the link above to do it using Unraid, it's usually pretty safe, there could be a problem if you lose power during the update and there's no UPS.
January 2, 20224 yr Author Hi I tried to update the firmware but .. root@Tower:/lsi# sas2flash -o -f 2118it.bin 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. I need to reflash it ?
January 3, 20224 yr 14 hours ago, aldask775 said: ERROR: Cannot Flash IT Firmware over IR Firmware! Yeah, so it is an IR firmware, in that case a simple update won't do.
January 4, 20224 yr Author Hi I'd flash my card with Unraid Topics. I've an doubt if the last step (rewrite PCIe card adress) works. Meanwhile in the logfile, i have Quote Jan 4 17:15:18 Tower kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: LSISAS2008: FWVersion(20.00.07.00), ChipRevision(0x03), BiosVersion(00.00.00.00) Jan 4 17:15:18 Tower kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: Protocol=(Initiator,Target), Capabilities=(TLR,EEDP,Snapshot Buffer,Diag Trace Buffer,Task Set Full,NCQ) Is there other thing to verify is every is okay ? And if my PCI SAS Card will be ready for adding my Netapp DS4246 JBOD. tower-diagnostics-20220104-1725.zip
January 4, 20224 yr Author 9 minutes ago, JorgeB said: Looks fine now. Anything more to verify ? Thanks a lot for your help and your time. Appreciate !
January 4, 20224 yr Nothing that I can think of for now, good to run a stress test like a parity/read check when you have all the disks connected.
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