Can't create Volume with disks attached to LSI 9300-8e

[Matt Kent]

I have a new Dell R730xd server that I have Freenas 9.10 installed on. It has 32 GB of RAM.
The drives attached to the internal H730 Mini controller were found fine and are being addressed with no issues.
The drive hooked up to the LSI 9300-8e are having problems. They are in a Dell MD1400 disk enclosure
I have flashed the controller to P12 IT mode, per the needs of Freenas 9.10.

When I try to configure a volume with these drives I get this in the log files:
Aug 18 10:34:04 xxxxxxxx (da0:mpr0:0:8:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00
Aug 18 10:34:04 xxxxxxxx (da0:mpr0:0:8:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
Aug 18 10:34:04 xxxxxxxx (da0:mpr0:0:8:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
Aug 18 10:34:04 xxxxxxxx (da0:mpr0:0:8:0): SCSI sense: ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:20,0 (Invalid command operation code)
Aug 18 10:34:04 xxxxxxxx (da0:mpr0:0:8:0): Error 22, Unretryable error

Repeated for multiple time, for each one of the drives.
I have checked the controller, and it says the drives are in HBA mode.

Any suggestions on what to try next? Or more diagnostic information to get?

Matt

 

[Spearfoot]

I have a new Dell R730xd server that I have Freenas 9.10 installed on. It has 32 GB of RAM.
The drives attached to the internal H730 Mini controller were found fine and are being addressed with no issues.
The drive hooked up to the LSI 9300-8e are having problems. They are in a Dell MD1400 disk enclosure
I have flashed the controller to P12 IT mode, per the needs of Freenas 9.10.

When I try to configure a volume with these drives I get this in the log files:
Aug 18 10:34:04 xxxxxxxx (da0:mpr0:0:8:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00
Aug 18 10:34:04 xxxxxxxx (da0:mpr0:0:8:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
Aug 18 10:34:04 xxxxxxxx (da0:mpr0:0:8:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
Aug 18 10:34:04 xxxxxxxx (da0:mpr0:0:8:0): SCSI sense: ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:20,0 (Invalid command operation code)
Aug 18 10:34:04 xxxxxxxx (da0:mpr0:0:8:0): Error 22, Unretryable error

Repeated for multiple time, for each one of the drives.
I have checked the controller, and it says the drives are in HBA mode.

Any suggestions on what to try next? Or more diagnostic information to get?

Matt

Yikes!

First things first: have you tried re-connecting the cables? Do you have spare, 'known-good' cables you can use? This is stupefyingly obvious, I know, but it never hurts to check the obvious...

 

[Matt Kent]

I have tried reconnecting the one cable between the HBA and the disk enclosure.
Dell only sent me the one cable, so at this point I have to assume that it is good.
The drive show up in the web interface properly, with serial numbers and everything, so some communication is happening, but there is a miss configuration somewhere in the system.

Matt

 

[Spearfoot]

I have tried reconnecting the one cable between the HBA and the disk enclosure.
Dell only sent me the one cable, so at this point I have to assume that it is good.
The drive show up in the web interface properly, with serial numbers and everything, so some communication is happening, but there is a miss configuration somewhere in the system.

Matt

Yes, you'd think the connection would either work, or not... and that particular cable isn't cheap or readily available at your local big-box store, either.

@Mirfster, you're a Dell afficianado - any idea what might be wrong with the OP's setup?

 

[depasseg]

da0 could be one of the internal drives. what is the output of camcontrol devlist?

 

[Matt Kent]

I'm currently doing a low level format of one of the drives via the controller, so I can't give the output, right now, but the internal drives show up as mfisyspd0-7, and thes one in the enclosure show up at da0-7.

I have verified this via live disconnect of drives, and seeing which ones drop out.

Matt

 

[depasseg]

I'm pretty sure mfi is bad and not what you want. mpr is the correct driver. I think mfi means that the controller isn't in IT mode.

 

[Mirfster]

The drive show up in the web interface properly, with serial numbers and everything, so some communication is happening, but there is a miss configuration somewhere in the system.

Since you can see them in the GUI, they are being detected but are they any good?

 

[Matt Kent]

Mirfster,

Since they are brand new I would assume that they are good, as in in working order, it would be unusual for all 8 drives to fail in the new shelf.

What command, outside the camconrol devlist that is requested would help me see that?

Matt

 

[Matt Kent]

Sorry for the long delay, but here is the camcontrol devlist report:
[root@xxxxxxx] ~# camcontrol devlist
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass2)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (pass3)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass4)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus0 target 5 lun 0 (pass5)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus0 target 6 lun 0 (pass6)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus0 target 7 lun 0 (pass7)
<DP BP13G+EXP 3.31> at scbus0 target 32 lun 0 (pass8,ses0)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus5 target 8 lun 0 (pass9,da0)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus5 target 9 lun 0 (pass10,da1)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus5 target 10 lun 0 (pass11,da2)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus5 target 11 lun 0 (pass12,da3)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus5 target 12 lun 0 (pass13,da4)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus5 target 13 lun 0 (pass14,da5)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus5 target 14 lun 0 (pass15,da6)
<TOSHIBA MG04SCA40EN DS06> at scbus5 target 15 lun 0 (pass16,da7)
<DELL MD1400 1.05> at scbus5 target 20 lun 0 (pass17,ses1)
<SanDisk Ultra 1.00> at scbus7 target 0 lun 0 (pass18,da8)

Matt

 

[depasseg]

The disks in the MD1400 enclosure are detected (da#). The ones in the R730 are visible, but not available. This provides additional information that indicates the controller might not be flashed to IT mode properly.

I think your original post mentioned a SCSI 0:8:0 error which could correlate to the 13G BP enclosure (bus 0, device 8)

 

[Spearfoot]

The disks in the MD1400 enclosure are detected (da#). The ones in the R730 are visible, but not available. This provides additional information that indicates the controller might not be flashed to IT mode properly.

I think your original post mentioned a SCSI 0:8:0 error which could correlate to the 13G BP enclosure (bus 0, device 8)

Yes, a little research indicates there may be problems with the H730 controller not working well with FreeNAS/FreeBSD:

Our own @Mirfster pointed this out earlier this year:

As far as I know the H700 (H700, H710,& H730) family does not work and cannot be cross-flashed to a true HBA/IT Mode. Same is true for the H800s. Get a LSI 9211-8i, IBM M1015, Perc H200, Perc H310, etc. that can actually be cross-flashed or set to IT Mode.

And I found this thread on serverfault.com, key quote:

The DELL PERC H330 or H730 aren't suitable cards for ZFS in FreeBSD. There's a lot of misunderstandings about the "passthrough" mode of those cards and they simply don't implement this the way it should be for FreeBSD. It sure works on Windows but it's not the case with FreeBSD.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Agreed with the idea that you aren't using IT mode. Especially when you said you are formatting then with the controller, lol.

 

[Spearfoot]

@Matt Kent, is this a new build? Do you have the option of replacing the H730 controller? If our suppositions are correct, you may need to do so, and a good replacement would be the LSI 9300-8i.

Were I in your place, I would do some more troubleshooting and make sure the H730 can't be made to work. It isn't prudent to go ripping out and replacing expensive RAID cards on a whim.

For starters, I would load a shell (or attach to the server with SSH) and use the smartmontools to see what's what. For example, this command would list all devices:

Code:

smartctl --scan

 

[Matt Kent]

Here's the problem. The internal drives are working fine. I have a volume made out of them using the H730 controller, and everything appears fine.
It's the drives on the LSI controller that are causing the problem.

[root@xxxxxxxx] ~# smartctl --scan
/dev/pass0 -d scsi # /dev/pass0, SCSI device
/dev/pass1 -d scsi # /dev/pass1, SCSI device
/dev/pass2 -d scsi # /dev/pass2, SCSI device
/dev/pass3 -d scsi # /dev/pass3, SCSI device
/dev/pass4 -d scsi # /dev/pass4, SCSI device
/dev/pass5 -d scsi # /dev/pass5, SCSI device
/dev/pass6 -d scsi # /dev/pass6, SCSI device
/dev/pass7 -d scsi # /dev/pass7, SCSI device
/dev/ses0 -d scsi # /dev/ses0, SCSI device
/dev/da0 -d scsi # /dev/da0, SCSI device
/dev/da1 -d scsi # /dev/da1, SCSI device
/dev/da2 -d scsi # /dev/da2, SCSI device
/dev/da3 -d scsi # /dev/da3, SCSI device
/dev/da4 -d scsi # /dev/da4, SCSI device
/dev/da5 -d scsi # /dev/da5, SCSI device
/dev/da6 -d scsi # /dev/da6, SCSI device
/dev/da7 -d scsi # /dev/da7, SCSI device
/dev/ses1 -d scsi # /dev/ses1, SCSI device

Drives pass0-7 would be the ones on the H730, and they are working.
The drives da0-7 show up and should be fine, but are not able to join a group.
I have Build FreeNAS-9.10.1 (d989edd).

The H730 is currently using the mfi driver, and the LSI is using mpr.

While debugging this, I can pull all the drives from the H730 controller, and only have drives connected on the LSI, whould that help the debug?

Matt

 

[Matt Kent]

Agreed with the idea that you aren't using IT mode. Especially when you said you are formatting then with the controller, lol.

I was going with Well I can try this, and see what I get.

I'm fairly certain that the LSI is in IT mode. This is from my saved log of teh controller re-flash from P3 (What was shipped) to P12.

[root@xxxxxxx] /mnt/main/LSI# ./sas3flash -list
Avago Technologies SAS3 Flash Utility
Version 13.00.00.00 (2016.03.07)
Copyright 2008-2016 Avago Technologies. All rights reserved.

Adapter Selected is a Avago SAS: SAS3008(C0)

Controller Number : 0
Controller : SAS3008(C0)
PCI Address : 00:83:00:00
SAS Address : 500605b-0-0ab0-9160
NVDATA Version (Default) : 0b.02.00.08
NVDATA Version (Persistent) : 0b.02.00.08
Firmware Product ID : 0x2221 (IT)
Firmware Version : 12.00.00.00
NVDATA Vendor : LSI
NVDATA Product ID : SAS9300-8e
BIOS Version : 08.29.00.00
UEFI BSD Version : 14.00.00.00
FCODE Version : N/A
Board Name : SAS9300-8e
Board Assembly : 03-25656-02A
Board Tracer Number : SV53346119

Finished Processing Commands Successfully.
Exiting SAS3Flash.

Matt

 

[Spearfoot]

Well, @Matt Kent, perhaps we've been barking up the wrong tree!

Did you pull any disk info using the SMART tools? I'd be curious to see the output of these commands:

Code:

smartctl -a /dev/da0
smartctl -a /dev/pass0

(If you post the results, enclose them in code tags to make them more legible.)

 

[Matt Kent]

Here we go,

<code>
[root@xxxxxxxxxxx] ~# smartctl -a /dev/da0
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: TOSHIBA
Product: MG04SCA40EN
Revision: DS06
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5000039728387e05
Serial number: 76L0A0RPFVNC
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is: Fri Aug 19 14:43:53 2016 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Temperature Warning: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK

Current Drive Temperature: 24 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 65 C

Manufactured in week 29 of year 2016
Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 50000
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 9
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 600000
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 84
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Error counter log:
Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total
ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 0 0 0 0 0 18027.851 0
write: 0 0 0 0 0 4039.009 0
verify: 0 0 0 0 0 200.008 0

Non-medium error count: 7466

SMART Self-test log
Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
Description number (hours)
# 1 Reserved(7) Completed 64 21 - [- - -]
# 2 Reserved(7) Completed 64 18 - [- - -]

Long (extended) Self Test duration: 26198 seconds [436.6 minutes]

[root@xxxxxxxx] ~# smartctl -a /dev/pass0
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: TOSHIBA
Product: MG04SCA40EN
Revision: DS06
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Formatted with type 2 protection
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x500003972838fdfd
Serial number: 76L0A16CFVNC
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is: Fri Aug 19 14:44:29 2016 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Temperature Warning: Disabled or Not Supported

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK

Current Drive Temperature: 24 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 65 C

Manufactured in week 29 of year 2016
Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 50000
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 25
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 600000
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 37
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Error counter log:
Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total
ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 0 0 0 0 0 9088.995 0
write: 0 0 0 0 0 20.116 0
verify: 0 0 0 0 0 14.670 0

Non-medium error count: 25

SMART Self-test log
Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
Description number (hours)
# 1 Background short Completed 80 3 - [- - -]
# 2 Reserved(7) Completed 64 3 - [- - -]

Long (extended) Self Test duration: 26198 seconds [436.6 minutes]

</code>

Hopefully that wrapped properly.

Matt

 

[Matt Kent]

Try again? ^_^

Code:

[root@xxxxxx] ~# smartctl -a /dev/da0
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               TOSHIBA
Product:              MG04SCA40EN
Revision:             DS06
Compliance:           SPC-4
User Capacity:        4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Rotation Rate:        7200 rpm
Form Factor:          3.5 inches
Logical Unit id:      0x5000039728387e05
Serial number:        76L0A0RPFVNC
Device type:          disk
Transport protocol:   SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is:        Fri Aug 19 14:43:53 2016 EDT
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
Temperature Warning:  Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK

Current Drive Temperature:     24 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        65 C

Manufactured in week 29 of year 2016
Specified cycle count over device lifetime:  50000
Accumulated start-stop cycles:  9
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime:  600000
Accumulated load-unload cycles:  84
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Error counter log:
           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes    Total
               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed    uncorrected
           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]  errors
read:          0        0         0         0          0      18027.851           0
write:         0        0         0         0          0       4039.009           0
verify:        0        0         0         0          0        200.008           0

Non-medium error count:     7466

SMART Self-test log
Num  Test              Status                 segment  LifeTime  LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
     Description                              number   (hours)
# 1  Reserved(7)       Completed                  64      21                 - [-   -    -]
# 2  Reserved(7)       Completed                  64      18                 - [-   -    -]

Long (extended) Self Test duration: 26198 seconds [436.6 minutes]

[root@xxxxx] ~# smartctl -a /dev/pass0
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               TOSHIBA
Product:              MG04SCA40EN
Revision:             DS06
Compliance:           SPC-4
User Capacity:        4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Formatted with type 2 protection
Rotation Rate:        7200 rpm
Form Factor:          3.5 inches
Logical Unit id:      0x500003972838fdfd
Serial number:        76L0A16CFVNC
Device type:          disk
Transport protocol:   SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is:        Fri Aug 19 14:44:29 2016 EDT
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
Temperature Warning:  Disabled or Not Supported

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK

Current Drive Temperature:     24 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        65 C

Manufactured in week 29 of year 2016
Specified cycle count over device lifetime:  50000
Accumulated start-stop cycles:  25
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime:  600000
Accumulated load-unload cycles:  37
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Error counter log:
           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes    Total
               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed    uncorrected
           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]  errors
read:          0        0         0         0          0       9088.995           0
write:         0        0         0         0          0         20.116           0
verify:        0        0         0         0          0         14.670           0

Non-medium error count:       25

SMART Self-test log
Num  Test              Status                 segment  LifeTime  LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
     Description                              number   (hours)
# 1  Background short  Completed                  80       3                 - [-   -    -]
# 2  Reserved(7)       Completed                  64       3                 - [-   -    -]

Long (extended) Self Test duration: 26198 seconds [436.6 minutes]

 

[Spearfoot]

Try again? ^_^

Code:

[root@xxxxxx] ~# smartctl -a /dev/da0
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               TOSHIBA
Product:              MG04SCA40EN
Revision:             DS06
Compliance:           SPC-4
User Capacity:        4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Rotation Rate:        7200 rpm
Form Factor:          3.5 inches
Logical Unit id:      0x5000039728387e05
Serial number:        76L0A0RPFVNC
Device type:          disk
Transport protocol:   SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is:        Fri Aug 19 14:43:53 2016 EDT
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
Temperature Warning:  Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK

Current Drive Temperature:     24 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        65 C

Manufactured in week 29 of year 2016
Specified cycle count over device lifetime:  50000
Accumulated start-stop cycles:  9
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime:  600000
Accumulated load-unload cycles:  84
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Error counter log:
           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes    Total
               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed    uncorrected
           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]  errors
read:          0        0         0         0          0      18027.851           0
write:         0        0         0         0          0       4039.009           0
verify:        0        0         0         0          0        200.008           0

Non-medium error count:     7466

SMART Self-test log
Num  Test              Status                 segment  LifeTime  LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
     Description                              number   (hours)
# 1  Reserved(7)       Completed                  64      21                 - [-   -    -]
# 2  Reserved(7)       Completed                  64      18                 - [-   -    -]

Long (extended) Self Test duration: 26198 seconds [436.6 minutes]

[root@xxxxx] ~# smartctl -a /dev/pass0
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               TOSHIBA
Product:              MG04SCA40EN
Revision:             DS06
Compliance:           SPC-4
User Capacity:        4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Formatted with type 2 protection
Rotation Rate:        7200 rpm
Form Factor:          3.5 inches
Logical Unit id:      0x500003972838fdfd
Serial number:        76L0A16CFVNC
Device type:          disk
Transport protocol:   SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is:        Fri Aug 19 14:44:29 2016 EDT
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
Temperature Warning:  Disabled or Not Supported

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK

Current Drive Temperature:     24 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        65 C

Manufactured in week 29 of year 2016
Specified cycle count over device lifetime:  50000
Accumulated start-stop cycles:  25
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime:  600000
Accumulated load-unload cycles:  37
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Error counter log:
           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes    Total
               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed    uncorrected
           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]  errors
read:          0        0         0         0          0       9088.995           0
write:         0        0         0         0          0         20.116           0
verify:        0        0         0         0          0         14.670           0

Non-medium error count:       25

SMART Self-test log
Num  Test              Status                 segment  LifeTime  LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
     Description                              number   (hours)
# 1  Background short  Completed                  80       3                 - [-   -    -]
# 2  Reserved(7)       Completed                  64       3                 - [-   -    -]

Long (extended) Self Test duration: 26198 seconds [436.6 minutes]

Much better than the first try!

Not a dime's worth of difference in the output. These are SAS drives, so perhaps that explains why there is so much less information than I'm used to seeing for SATA drives? I dunno.

Delving deeper... what do you mean, precisely, when you say you "can't configure a volume"? I assumed that you encountered an error when loading the GUI and selecting 'Volume Manager' from the 'Storage' menu... is this correct? If so, what error did the GUI report? Can you show us a screen shot of the error? Also, a screen shot of the Storage->View Disks output might be useful as well. (Mine is below.)