I believe a FW fix would do the trick as it seems the controller and/or FreeBSD driver is too quick to fault the drive instead of giving it a second or two to reply properly. FW downgrade is just a shot in the dark that I will try some day.Sorry, I don't know why I don't have the HBA listed with the rest of my hardware in my sig. It came with an LSI 9211-8i, I replaced it with an LSI 9240-8i, which was a bunny and a half to remove the IBM firmware it came with so I could flash the correct one. So do you think my issue is the firmware for the HBA? I flashed the latest, P20. I wish I had the option to move them to onboard ports, but that isn't possible in this chassis, since the drives are all connected to a backplane. At this point, I guess I should cancel the RMA on the drive. I don't know what to do to fix this problem though. I just keep rebooting my server every few days when my server isn't responding properly. It's actually causing more problems. Today I started getting spammed every 5 minutes about my UPS not having a connection. While trying to diagnose that problem I saw two drives had faulted. After reboot, my server now has a connection to the UPS again. It's all very frustrating.
I too am getting the no UPS connection warnings. About one per day or two.
Sorry, but that is kind of BS go-to default reasoning. These drives get trashed far more in my desktop builds in worse conditions, and nothing in the NAS is so special for them to be problematic. This is purely an HBA FW and/or FreeBSD/FreeNAS driver issue. As reported in this and related threads, none of the affected drives are failing and are working without problems when moved from the problematic HBAs.Here is the thing. I used 6 of the very similar Toshiba DT01ACA200 drives to replace the drives in one of the vdevs in one of my storage pools and after less than 6 months 3 of them had failed. These drives are desktop computer drives and they are NOT suitable to use in a server.
They are not rated for the service and the drives that are showing as failed are really failed. Buy actual NAS drives.
It's reported as being a rebranded Hitachi HDS723030BLE640, but I don't know the details.No. Totally different company and even when it was the same company it was a different design at a different plant.