Dell Precision 7910 running the included Dell LSI 3008 SAS controller. Flashed to LSI 9300 IT Mode firmware, all appears to have gone successful with that, verified IT mode, disabled BIOS, and set drives to JBOD but I'm still getting the weird syslog messages..

 

Mar 31 23:32:11 Bahamut kernel: sd 2:0:8:0: [sdf] tag#127 CDB: opcode=0x85 85 06 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 e5 00
Mar 31 23:32:11 Bahamut kernel: sd 2:0:8:0: [sdf] tag#64 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=0s
Mar 31 23:32:11 Bahamut kernel: sd 2:0:8:0: [sdf] tag#64 CDB: opcode=0x85 85 06 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 98 00
Mar 31 23:32:11 Bahamut kernel: sd 2:0:11:0: [sdi] tag#507 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=0s

 

First thought was the card didn't really go into IT mode but I have confirmed this through the flashing tool. Perhaps JBOD is incorrect and I need the drives set to unconfigured? I really don't like messing with the RAID card settings for obvious reasons. System is running great otherwise but the syslog messages make it difficult to see whats happening.

1 hour ago, BrandonG777 said:

First thought was the card didn't really go into IT mode but I have confirmed this through the flashing tool. Perhaps JBOD is incorrect and I need the drives set to unconfigured? I really don't like messing with the RAID card settings for obvious reasons. System is running great otherwise but the syslog messages make it difficult to see whats happening.

Your diagnostics would show more details on how the card and the drives are detected.

knew I should have included it... thank you kindly for your assistance. bahamut-diagnostics-20220401-0409.zip

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Diags can't be downloaded. 

try this again from an actual PC...

bahamut-diagnostics-20220402-0741.zip

and not sure if it matters or not, heres one with the array started. 

bahamut-diagnostics-20220402-0745.zip

 

This was the process I used to flash the IT mode firmware using firmware files I pulled from Dell's website.

 

also tried booting into UEFI mode thinking that might make a difference but I just get a black screen when I boot via that mode, pretty sure I had that working on my last hardware setup, no dash at the end of the UEFI folder. i was thinking it would resolve the issue of the BIOS throwing up no system disks errors upon doing a reboot. 

 

thanks for the help. 

Edited April 2, 20224 yr by BrandonG777

You have one LSI HBA and one LSI RAID controller:

 

01:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 [1000:0097] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Broadcom / LSI SAS9300-8i [1000:30e0]
    Kernel driver in use: mpt3sas
    Kernel modules: mpt3sas
02:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Broadcom / LSI MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 [Invader] [1000:005d] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Broadcom / LSI MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i [1000:9361]
    Kernel driver in use: megaraid_sas
    Kernel modules: megaraid_sas

 

Disks are connected to the RAID controller.

3 hours ago, JorgeB said:

You have one LSI HBA and one LSI RAID controller:

 

01:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 [1000:0097] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Broadcom / LSI SAS9300-8i [1000:30e0]
    Kernel driver in use: mpt3sas
    Kernel modules: mpt3sas
02:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Broadcom / LSI MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 [Invader] [1000:005d] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Broadcom / LSI MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i [1000:9361]
    Kernel driver in use: megaraid_sas
    Kernel modules: megaraid_sas

 

Disks are connected to the RAID controller.

 

Dang, that explains a lot...LOL! I feel a bit silly but in my defense these other multilane connectors were hiding under PCIe card brace towards the front of the machine. 

 

Think I'll ditch this 3108 altogether.

 

 

Thank you, thank you!