Initial storage when installing.

[Ericloewe]

It's a bad solution and the ZFS police will pull you over for using it.

We don't have sirens, but we have the screams from the souls of those who have been emptied by Oracle. It's very appropriate on Halloween, but excessively creepy the rest of the year.

 

[James Richardson]

Yeah I've just done that but I'll have to deal with the consequences until I get a NEW controller :(.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192161127069 "IBM M1050" is the recommended one isn't it, what's the disk size limit for this card?

James

 

[danb35]

Not M1050, M1015. Also LSI 9211-8i and other variants. No disk size limit for that card AFAIK.

 

[James Richardson]

Sorry i meant M1015, my bad typo, I've just double checked that's right one and it's been ordered, hopefully shouldn't have to wait too long :) :) :).

Super thank you :).

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

I've just done that

Be prepared to backup the data and rebuild the pool when you get the new controller. FreeNAS is unlikely to recognize a pool build from a set of RAID0 pseudo-disks when the original controller is replaced.

 

[James Richardson]

I thought as much, I'm stilling playing at the moment, but thank you : ) :) :)

 

[wblock]

Just installed FreeNAS 9.3

9.3 is a legacy version from years ago. Please use the current version, 9.10.

 

[James Richardson]

9.3 is a legacy version from years ago. Please use the current version, 9.10.

This is the only download I could get from the FreeNAS website but I've already done the upgrade to 9.10 STABLE thank you, sorry i forgot to mention that :).

There is a 9.10 Nightlies and 11 Stable and nighties, what nightlies version about??

James

 

[wblock]

Please see http://doc.freenas.org/11/system.html#updates-and-trains.

 

[Stux]

This is the only download I could get from the FreeNAS website but I've already done the upgrade to 9.10 STABLE thank you, sorry i forgot to mention that :).

There is a 9.10 Nightlies and 11 Stable and nighties, what nightlies version about??

James

http://www.freenas.org/download-freenas-release/

Navigated to from front page of website...

 

[James Richardson]

Hi again guys,

I've got my IBM M1015 raid card and appears the card has already been flashed to the IT mode and set as JBOD, started the server it said there was 7 JBOD logical drives, 1 was a bad configure so i wiped and now there is 8 drives as JBOD, saved me a job :) :).

The only thing I've got a problem with is the server is saying "SAS cable B has a failure" on the display panel and the front, the server says when booting, "SAS cable B Missing/Fault/Misconfigured" but everything is running OK, FreeNAS can see the drives quite happily.

I've switched the cables around on both the card and then the SAS drive connection itself too and still keeps complaining the "SAS cable B has a failure" everytime.

I assume port 0 will be "A" and Port 1 will be "B", do you think the Card is faulty??

Thanks
James

 

[SweetAndLow]

Hi again guys,

I've got my IBM M1015 raid card and appears the card has already been flashed to the IT mode and set as JBOD, started the server it said there was 7 JBOD logical drives, 1 was a bad configure so i wiped and now there is 8 drives as JBOD, saved me a job :) :).

The only thing I've got a problem with is the server is saying "SAS cable B has a failure" on the display panel and the front, the server says when booting, "SAS cable B Missing/Fault/Misconfigured" but everything is running OK, Freenas can see the drives quite happily.

I've switched the cables around on both the card and then the SAS drive connection itself too and still keeps complaining the "SAS cable B has a failure" everytime.

I assume port 0 will be "A" and Port 1 will be "B", do you think the Card is faulty??

Thanks
James

This sounds suspicious. There should not be any logical volumes or configuration. If you used any other interface besides the freenas GUI that means the card is in raid mode.

Can you check the driver being used? You will have to look up how to do that, I'm not in front of a computer to give you the command.

Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

the card has already been flashed to the IT mode and set as JBOD

Many RAID cards offer JBOD mode. That doesn't imply that the card has been flashed to IT mode.

 

[James Richardson]

Oh i see, so if i set a raid on it then it's won't be a JBOD anymore.

My other controller that I've just replaced it with had no Raid configuration either like I've done with this one but it didn't show any drives in Freenas like this one did.

The drives are coming up, as shown screen attached in the Freenas GUI.

Thanks
James

 

[James Richardson]

Nevermind I've flashed it to IT mode now.

That was a piece of P**S and the drives are showing differently now too, i assume normal.

It's still complaining about SAS cable B missing though. So I googled it and found a thread for the exact server and controller and i think it's just not liking it because it's not Dell lol. Everything appears and works ok.

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/45lc5i/dell_poweredge_r510_sas_cable_b_failure/

Thanks
James

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

Much better.

 

[danb35]

Agreed.

 

[James Richardson]

Thanks for sticking with me guys .

 

[James Richardson]

Sorry I spoke to soon :-( :-(, it looked ok but I've just come create a raid through FreeNAS and noticed that 1 of 8 drives is missing. It's the last drive (Slot 7) but according to the LSI configure Slot 3 is missing?!?!? Everything was visible until i did the IT mode.

I switched drive 6 with 7 to see if it was a bad drive or slot and it appears to be the slot.

So config the physical slot 6 is shown as slot 2 and slot 7 is shown as slot 3. Is that normal??

See attached, slot 3 missing but it's actually slot 7.

James.

 

[James Richardson]

It's ok I've got it back but I'll keep an eye on it.

Thanks guys.