High Voltage
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- Joined
- Jul 7, 2017
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- 56
soo....appologies if this happens to be in the wrong board, I'm honestly not sure if it should be exactly here, or not, but I'm shooting it here on the chance its NOT actually hardware related or other board related....
soooo....yea, had overheating issues on my dual cpu system, found out why, was in the process of replacing badly aged (AND PREMATURELY AGED) thermal paste, and one of the cpu heatsinks fell onto the motherboard shearing off a tiny component and manging pins on another microchip....so, finally got the board replaced, and what do ya know, I still, 4 months later from the date it went down, still have no idea if any of my data, time, and research into how to best set the storage up for near perfect chance of data protection, because its throwing errors that I do not understand.
so, long story short and to the point, everything is the same, except maybe the exact pcie slots things are plugged into as they were before the replacement motherboard, yet now, for some unknown reason, when freenas attempts to boot, it always gets to the point JUST RIGHT BEFORE the systems operating system fully initializes, and then detects that somehow, none of the 16 or 18 data disks are spun up, somehow, it sees them PERFECTLY then right before it loads them, mind you AFTER it imports the volume successfully, it then says someting to the effect of sata passthrough from sas failed to detect spinup - waiting X seconds for drive to attempt to spin up, and does this, for every single drive in the system that is used for data storage, does not have any issues with the mirrored boot ssds, nor the mirrored usb cache drives, JUST the sata data drives, that are plugged into the same exact sas hba (lsi 9something -8i model SPECIFICALLY recommended from here and another user) and the sas expanders that were also specifically recommended from here IF you could actually get a hold of them....so....nothing has changed, yet somehow it thinks all 16 or 18 of my drives are now not spinning up at all, which, entirely possible something fucked them all up, is unrealistic given they are separated by two totally different chassis via external sas cables to an external drive cage in addition to the internal drives in the server chassis itself.
so, I'm at a loss, and dont have the willpower to mess with it anymore myself without some sort of guidance or something...so.....anyone got anything?
soooo....yea, had overheating issues on my dual cpu system, found out why, was in the process of replacing badly aged (AND PREMATURELY AGED) thermal paste, and one of the cpu heatsinks fell onto the motherboard shearing off a tiny component and manging pins on another microchip....so, finally got the board replaced, and what do ya know, I still, 4 months later from the date it went down, still have no idea if any of my data, time, and research into how to best set the storage up for near perfect chance of data protection, because its throwing errors that I do not understand.
so, long story short and to the point, everything is the same, except maybe the exact pcie slots things are plugged into as they were before the replacement motherboard, yet now, for some unknown reason, when freenas attempts to boot, it always gets to the point JUST RIGHT BEFORE the systems operating system fully initializes, and then detects that somehow, none of the 16 or 18 data disks are spun up, somehow, it sees them PERFECTLY then right before it loads them, mind you AFTER it imports the volume successfully, it then says someting to the effect of sata passthrough from sas failed to detect spinup - waiting X seconds for drive to attempt to spin up, and does this, for every single drive in the system that is used for data storage, does not have any issues with the mirrored boot ssds, nor the mirrored usb cache drives, JUST the sata data drives, that are plugged into the same exact sas hba (lsi 9something -8i model SPECIFICALLY recommended from here and another user) and the sas expanders that were also specifically recommended from here IF you could actually get a hold of them....so....nothing has changed, yet somehow it thinks all 16 or 18 of my drives are now not spinning up at all, which, entirely possible something fucked them all up, is unrealistic given they are separated by two totally different chassis via external sas cables to an external drive cage in addition to the internal drives in the server chassis itself.
so, I'm at a loss, and dont have the willpower to mess with it anymore myself without some sort of guidance or something...so.....anyone got anything?