Help - New Build, having some problems.

[dmoney517]

1 hour ago, Bizquick said:

500 watts PSU does seam a bit low with that many drives and HBA cards.
older 4TB and lower Spin Drives do take some power when I ran 6 4TB WD reds. I made sure my PSU was 650.
kind of surprised your dual Xeon box didn't have power issues. unless the CPU's just constantly ran in low power mode.  Which can happen if your Bios is not set to turn off C-states and a few other things all depending on what the BIOS lets you do.  glad to hear it sounds like your up and running now. I would double check your HBA Firmware to make sure its P20. Sometimes I've gotten a few of those old 9201 cards and I've had to reflash them because who ever sold them didn't do it right or just claimed they did. But your log shows that's good I don't know how to read everything in the logs yet still learning.

 

Im not one to mess with BIOS a ton. So I didn't change any settings for the CPU. 

 

I had read that system was a power hog, so I assumed (incorrectly) that my PSU would be fine with the new hardware.  and my UPS even said it could power my old system for 5 minutes, and the new one for 20+ minutes.  It does seem to me that the new setup is using less power, but regardless here we are.  I am very happy it is a PSU issue.  Fairly easy, and not overly expensive fix (cheaper than getting 2 new HBAs or multiple new disks).  I have since all this started plugged the new system into a power calculator, and it called for 500-599 w.  So, I should have done my homework first and checked the power requirements for the new setup instead of making an assumption.

[JorgeB]

15 hours ago, dmoney517 said:

I did see some Power On Failures in the start up when i booted the system.

Those are normal.

[Bizquick]

from your Log post it does look like your HBA controllers are on a older firmware. But If you don't have any issues you might not need to do anything. I would guess that your older setup might have had the power settings in bios set low which was why it could boot up and make all your drives usable. Now in this newer setup. Generally they set things a little more on the higher side especially after you add 1 or 2 cards plugged into the motherboard. But for me when I'm building out systems if I got more than 5 drives I usually use a 650watt min PSU. and I was seeing 7 spin drives plus the small SSD's. That with a new Intel chip with igpu. 500watts was just a little under. might 550watts would be just enough. but it was just a little on the low side to me.

[dmoney517]

12 minutes ago, Bizquick said:

from your Log post it does look like your HBA controllers are on a older firmware. But If you don't have any issues you might not need to do anything. I would guess that your older setup might have had the power settings in bios set low which was why it could boot up and make all your drives usable. Now in this newer setup. Generally they set things a little more on the higher side especially after you add 1 or 2 cards plugged into the motherboard. But for me when I'm building out systems if I got more than 5 drives I usually use a 650watt min PSU. and I was seeing 7 spin drives plus the small SSD's. That with a new Intel chip with igpu. 500watts was just a little under. might 550watts would be just enough. but it was just a little on the low side to me.

 

This is what they should be, based on the listing.

 

LSI Avago IT mode firmware version P20 (20.00.07.00)

 

Is there a better firmware version? In my old setup I flashed myself. I wanted to avoid that step this time so bought pre-flashed.

[Bizquick]

Well like I said above a lot of times people will list and say anything. But you don't know for sure unless you check here is where I saw it in the log.

 

Mar 11 11:03:50 NAS kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: LSISAS2008: FWVersion(11.00.00.00), ChipRevision(0x03), BiosVersion(07.00.00.01)

I would think the firmware version would say something else. I just dont have a log file with one of these HBA cards to tell for sure.

So thats why I suggested you at least check. You ont have to flash it but I would try to follow the steps like you would flash it and check the firmware version. or if the place you got it from added the BIOS to it. you could check before boot and get into the controller. Just don't try to change anything.
It might be fine though so not sure. I wish I had a older log file from my older systems to see what mine said.

 

[dmoney517]

Hmm, Ill look into that.  Thanks.

 

For now, Thank you @JorgeB!  I was able to pre-clear one of my disks as well to confirm it is good.  My final disk seems to be dead.  SMART shows below.  When i tried to pre clear it had a ton of errors in the logs and smart shows below.

 

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAGS    VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     POSR--   069   064   006    -    163877417
  3 Spin_Up_Time            PO----   097   096   000    -    0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        -O--CK   084   084   020    -    16546
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   PO--CK   100   100   010    -    0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         POSR--   083   060   045    -    213584792
  9 Power_On_Hours          -O--CK   082   082   000    -    15876 (164 223 0)
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        PO--C-   100   100   097    -    0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       -O--CK   092   092   020    -    8295
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       -O--CK   100   100   000    -    0
184 End-to-End_Error        -O--CK   100   100   099    -    0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      -O--CK   081   081   000    -    19
188 Command_Timeout         -O--CK   100   100   000    -    0 0 8
189 High_Fly_Writes         -O-RCK   100   100   000    -    0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel -O---K   073   063   040    -    27 (Min/Max 20/28)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      -O--CK   100   100   000    -    0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count -O--CK   096   096   000    -    8234
193 Load_Cycle_Count        -O--CK   089   089   000    -    23081
194 Temperature_Celsius     -O---K   027   040   000    -    27 (0 17 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  -O-RC-   082   064   000    -    163877417
197 Current_Pending_Sector  -O--C-   100   100   000    -    40
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   ----C-   100   100   000    -    40
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    -OSRCK   200   200   000    -    0
240 Head_Flying_Hours       ------   100   253   000    -    3027h+32m+37.751s
241 Total_LBAs_Written      ------   100   253   000    -    55058677784
242 Total_LBAs_Read         ------   100   253   000    -    277759799893
                            ||||||_ K auto-keep

 

Thanks everyone for helping!

[JorgeB]

10 hours ago, dmoney517 said:

My final disk seems to be dead.

It does.