February 3, 201214 yr Been running unRAID v5.0b14 with a dedicate box up until just this week when I got an ESXi machine and consolidated my systems to that one box. My RAID card wasn't supported in ESXi, so I got a M1015 LSI9220-8i from eBay which was supported in ESXi and unRAID and had it flashed to LSI "IT" firmware (LSI 9210-8i). When using myMain and trying to run a Short Smart Test, I get this error. smartctl -t short -d ata /dev/sdb 2>&1 smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. terminate called after throwing an instance of 'int' Looking through the logs in MyMain, there is just a long list of errors that show this: Feb 3 09:18:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Device not ready (Drive related) Feb 3 09:18:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 (System) Feb 3 09:18:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : 0x2 [current] (Drive related) Feb 3 09:18:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x4 ASCQ=0x2 (Drive related) Feb 3 09:18:26 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 4a 85 82 a8 00 00 08 00 (Drive related) Feb 3 09:18:26 Tower kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 1250263720 (Errors) Feb 3 09:18:26 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 156282965 (Errors) I changed out the power supply to an 850 watt one but still getting one drop out, I have tried running the check disk on the first drive I had drop out but it came back clean. What can I do to stop the drives from dropping out?
February 3, 201214 yr You can try going back to an earlier beta, 11 perhaps. I seem to recall reading about LSI issues in the newer betas.
February 3, 201214 yr yes, there are issue with LSI controllers in the last couple of betas. I believe beta12a should work without issue with your LSI controllers.
February 3, 201214 yr Author Sounds good, I will give b12a a try tonight when I get home, hopefully that clears all of this up.
February 3, 201214 yr if 5b12a doesn't work for you, 5b11 should be good. Running that with 1x MV8 and 1xM1015 without issue. Had BLK issues when I tried 5b12a but think that is a MV8 not M1015 issue.
February 6, 201214 yr Author Dropping back down to 5 b12a solved my issue, I can now reboot my unRAID in ESXi and not have any issues with drives dropping out. Thank you! Hopefully this will help anyone else using unRAID 5 in ESXi v5 with an LSI card.
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