SOLVED Problems activating mrsas on H310 IT

[ntrp]

Hello, I have a Dell PERC H310 flashed in IT mode. The 8 * 4TB IronWolf disks are recognized and the zpool is working properly but I get no S.M.A.R.T. info and the Dashboard UI crashes because of that..



The driver being loaded is the mfis one and I tried everything to force mrsas by setting the recomended hints but it did not work. I have although /dev/passX devices that allow S.M.A.R.T. readings and after setting mfis passthrough using the cam property I have seen duplicated disks (/dev/daX and /dev/mfisyspdX) but still broken monitoring.

Some debug:

Code:

% sudo mfiutil show adapter
mfi0 Adapter:
    Product Name: PERC H310 Adapter
   Serial Number: 46J008N
        Firmware: 20.12.1-0002
     RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID10, RAID50
  Battery Backup: not present
           NVRAM: 32K
  Onboard Memory: 0M
  Minimum Stripe: 64K
  Maximum Stripe: 64K
% sudo mfiutil show firmware
mfi0 Firmware Package Version: 20.12.1-0002
mfi0 Firmware Images:
Name  Version                        Date         Time         Status
BIOS  4.34.00_4.12.05.00_0x05260000  12/10/2012
  12/10/2012
  active
PCLI  03.02-015:#%00008              Oct 12 2010  14:13:05     active
CTLR  3.00-0022                      Nov 29 2012  21:27:42     active
NVDT  3.09.03-0038                   May 25 2012  16:49:53     active
APP   2.120.14-2657                  Jul 22 2013  15:29:43     active
BTBL  2.02.00.00-0001                Aug 18 2010  11:44:44     active
% sudo mfiutil show drives
mfi0 Physical Drives:
0 ( 3726G) JBOD <ST4000VN008-2DR1 SC60 serial=ZGY3TF71> SATA S0
1 ( 3726G) JBOD <ST4000VN008-2DR1 SC60 serial=ZGY3TJ2A> SATA S1
2 ( 3726G) JBOD <ST4000VN008-2DR1 SC60 serial=ZGY3THH3> SATA S2
3 ( 3726G) JBOD <ST4000VN008-2DR1 SC60 serial=ZGY3TGWQ> SATA S3
4 ( 3726G) JBOD <ST4000VN008-2DR1 SC60 serial=ZGY3THRY> SATA S4
5 ( 3726G) JBOD <ST4000VN008-2DR1 SC60 serial=ZGY3THFP> SATA S5
6 ( 3726G) JBOD <ST4000VN008-2DR1 SC60 serial=ZGY3THW2> SATA S6
7 ( 3726G) JBOD <ST4000VN008-2DR1 SC60 serial=ZGY3TEZA> SATA S7
% sudo pciconf -lvcb mfi0
mfi0@pci0:4:0:0:        class=0x010400 card=0x1f4e1028 chip=0x00731000 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic'
    device     = 'MegaRAID SAS 2008 [Falcon]'
    class      = mass storage
    subclass   = RAID
    bar   [10] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xe000, size 256, enabled
    bar   [14] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xfb160000, size 16384, enabled
    bar   [1c] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xfb100000, size 262144, enabled
    cap 01[50] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
    cap 10[68] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 256(4096) FLR NS
                 link x8(x8) speed 5.0(5.0) ASPM disabled(L0s)
    cap 03[d0] = VPD
    cap 05[a8] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message
    cap 11[c0] = MSI-X supports 15 messages
                 Table in map 0x14[0x2000], PBA in map 0x14[0x3800]
    ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 1 corrected
    ecap 0004[138] = Power Budgeting 1

Anybody has a clue on what should I do?

EDIT: Just after posting I found this /index.php?threads/confused-about-that-lsi-card-join-the-crowd.11901. Could it be that it's not properly flashed? Is there a solution?

 

[Chris Moore]

Detailed newcomers' guide to crossflashing LSI 9211 HBA and variants
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...o-crossflashing-lsi-9211-hba-and-variants.54/

 

[ntrp]

Thanks, I just actually realized it is not properly flashed as I erroneously assumed by seeing single disks in linux.. I will check out the tutorial and flash it.

 

[ntrp]

Ok seems like now the disks are correctly recognized and they are using the msp driver. Still have some UI and performance quirks but I will research on them first.

As a reference for anybody finding this post I used this tutorial:
https://techmattr.wordpress.com/201...r-flashing-to-it-mode-dell-perc-h200-and-h310

p.s. I kinda feel stupid after wasting so much time on it (even trying it for days in Xpenology) just because I assumed was already flashed..