Zaaphod
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It does seem to be happening to all 3 hard drives. I can try a different power supply pretty easily, so I will try that first.
The firmware for my HBA seems to be more difficult... I have 20.00.00.00 installed that supermicro e-mailed to me, but when I tried to see if they would send me 20.00.04.00, I got a response, all we have for that motherboard is V19, and we don't know how you even got 20.00.00.00 Strange... 20.00.04.00 for that other board would not install correctly, but I noticed that it was dated 2014, I'm not sure why it's still not available for my motherboard in the downloads area yet. I'm going to see if I can dig up the email where they sent me 20.00.00.00 and perhaps that will have the name of the right person to talk to about it.
The only other possibility none of this can be resolved, is that it's a hard ware issue with my motherboard. I like that motherboard because it has 16 SATA III / SAS ports on it, lots of room for expansion... but it seems the controller that makes this happen is also the thing that is very difficult to keep current, so maybe it's not worth it when I'm nowhere near needing that many ports.... so here's a question:
I have the motherboard for my ESXi Server here, it's not in production so I could use it as a test. It's also a supermicro motherboard, but not the same model.. this one has lots of LAN ports, but not so many hard drive ports. I don't think it even has a SAS controller on it, but it does have 6 SATAIII ports on it and it does have ECC RAM installed. Since my drives are all SATA III, not SAS, I'm wondering if I should just switch to a motherboard without SAS capability and do away with the HBA firmware issue altogether.
anyway - for testing purposes... Can I just switch motherboards (to a different model)... just move my drives and USB Boot stick to the other system.. or would I need to re-install FreeNAS on the other motherboard then somehow import my data structure?
The firmware for my HBA seems to be more difficult... I have 20.00.00.00 installed that supermicro e-mailed to me, but when I tried to see if they would send me 20.00.04.00, I got a response, all we have for that motherboard is V19, and we don't know how you even got 20.00.00.00 Strange... 20.00.04.00 for that other board would not install correctly, but I noticed that it was dated 2014, I'm not sure why it's still not available for my motherboard in the downloads area yet. I'm going to see if I can dig up the email where they sent me 20.00.00.00 and perhaps that will have the name of the right person to talk to about it.
The only other possibility none of this can be resolved, is that it's a hard ware issue with my motherboard. I like that motherboard because it has 16 SATA III / SAS ports on it, lots of room for expansion... but it seems the controller that makes this happen is also the thing that is very difficult to keep current, so maybe it's not worth it when I'm nowhere near needing that many ports.... so here's a question:
I have the motherboard for my ESXi Server here, it's not in production so I could use it as a test. It's also a supermicro motherboard, but not the same model.. this one has lots of LAN ports, but not so many hard drive ports. I don't think it even has a SAS controller on it, but it does have 6 SATAIII ports on it and it does have ECC RAM installed. Since my drives are all SATA III, not SAS, I'm wondering if I should just switch to a motherboard without SAS capability and do away with the HBA firmware issue altogether.
anyway - for testing purposes... Can I just switch motherboards (to a different model)... just move my drives and USB Boot stick to the other system.. or would I need to re-install FreeNAS on the other motherboard then somehow import my data structure?