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Solution: Will be written here once I reboot into the HBA Setup Utility to see what the settings were that I changed to make it work. See the other posts, there are a few different solutions.
IRC UName: {HD}
MOBO: SuperMicro X8DTE-F (with up to date bios and ipmi firmware)
Backplane: SuperMicro SAS-846EL-1
PSU x 2: SuperMicro PWS-902-1R Redundant 900W
CPU x 2: X5650 6-core 2.66Ghz
96GB ECC DDR3
HBA: LSI9211-8i(IT)
Boot Pool: Mirrored SanDisk 16GB Cruzer Fits
OS: FreeNAS 9.10.1-U2
6 x 2TB WD REDS in Z2
1 x 2TB WD RED as spare
Ok...Starting there everything works as expected. I have everything setup the way I like it.
The issue came around when I try to reboot after adding 6 x 4TB WD Reds to the box.
Adding the drives went fine, no issues. I made a separate Z2 pool to test how it would work and what kind of additional storage capacity I will achieve. Then I went to reboot and got an error "Reboot and select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key". When I saw this I double checked the BIOS boot order and it looked as it should. I then tried removing the BOOT USBs and tried to boot from the INSTALL USB and it did not work. So, I unpluged all 6 4TB drives I had just added and it booted into the INSTALL USB with no issues...I quickly rebooted to the BOOT USBs and it worked as well. Then I added HDDs one at a time rebooting between each one. When it finally failed(after adding 4 HDDs) I tired several different Backplane slots and/or hard drives with no different results.
The BIOS and HBA config look good.
I can run with all drives once I am booted into system. But, in order to reboot or startup I need to undock 2 HDDs...Very Inconvenient...
If you need any additional data I will be happy to augment my original post(specs) just let me know what you need.
PS: Should this be in hardware? Or is it in the correct location in storage?
IRC UName: {HD}
MOBO: SuperMicro X8DTE-F (with up to date bios and ipmi firmware)
Backplane: SuperMicro SAS-846EL-1
PSU x 2: SuperMicro PWS-902-1R Redundant 900W
CPU x 2: X5650 6-core 2.66Ghz
96GB ECC DDR3
HBA: LSI9211-8i(IT)
Boot Pool: Mirrored SanDisk 16GB Cruzer Fits
OS: FreeNAS 9.10.1-U2
6 x 2TB WD REDS in Z2
1 x 2TB WD RED as spare
Ok...Starting there everything works as expected. I have everything setup the way I like it.
The issue came around when I try to reboot after adding 6 x 4TB WD Reds to the box.
Adding the drives went fine, no issues. I made a separate Z2 pool to test how it would work and what kind of additional storage capacity I will achieve. Then I went to reboot and got an error "Reboot and select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key". When I saw this I double checked the BIOS boot order and it looked as it should. I then tried removing the BOOT USBs and tried to boot from the INSTALL USB and it did not work. So, I unpluged all 6 4TB drives I had just added and it booted into the INSTALL USB with no issues...I quickly rebooted to the BOOT USBs and it worked as well. Then I added HDDs one at a time rebooting between each one. When it finally failed(after adding 4 HDDs) I tired several different Backplane slots and/or hard drives with no different results.
The BIOS and HBA config look good.
I can run with all drives once I am booted into system. But, in order to reboot or startup I need to undock 2 HDDs...Very Inconvenient...
If you need any additional data I will be happy to augment my original post(specs) just let me know what you need.
PS: Should this be in hardware? Or is it in the correct location in storage?
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