Errors after upgrade to 11.2U8 with USB drive

[marlonc]

Hi,

The other day I upgraded my dev Freenas 11.1 to 11.2 U8. I have a Dell R710 populated with all 6 3.5 drives. It booted from a single USB Sandisk on the rear.

On boot up after the upgrade, I was getting (da6:umass-sim8:0:0:0:0): CAM Status: CCB request completed with error Retrying command.

I rebooted a few more times and same thing. Then I moved the USB drive to the front panel USB on the Dell R710 and rebooted and it came up normally. I got lucky.

I am not trusting the USB stick anymore or the USB slots and would like to move the OS to something more stable. I have 2 free PCIE full length slots on the R710.

Can anyone suggest a stable solution and the process to do it as I will be upgrading to TrueNas 12.x when the stable version is available.

Thanks,

 

[Basil Hendroff]

In the interim, you could mirror the boot drive for peace of mind.

 

[marlonc]

Ok, I will do that this weekend with this link https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/9.10/system.html#mirroring-the-boot-device

Any suggestive USB make and model that is most recommended?

 

[Basil Hendroff]

Not really. The same brand/model of USB I've used on one server weren't much chop in a different model server. Some trial and error required I'm afraid. Check my signature block for the stick brands/models I've had success with.

 

[marlonc]

got it, thanks. Do you think using the PCIE slots would be a waste of a slot for OS boot?

 

[marlonc]

I actually think it was more of the slot that was bad or flaky

 

[Basil Hendroff]

I've stuck with USB sticks as I don't have spare slots, but many forum members are using SSD for a boot drive as they are more reliable. Search the forum as there are plenty of posts on this.

 

[marlonc]

got it and thanks.