SAS drives off an LSI 9211 not detected by fdisk/lsblk but visible to WebUI & smartctl

[aean]

I've got an odd issue that I can't find anything about online. Running an LSI 9211-8i with 5 SAS drives /dev/sda-sde

The drives are all listed in the WebUI as 0 B. Trying to add them to a pool nets me the error code "Unable to determine size of sdX" and a failure.

The output of smartctl --scan clearly shows them as well:

Code:

root@SKYSERVER[~]# smartctl --scan
/dev/sda -d scsi # /dev/sda, SCSI device
/dev/sdb -d scsi # /dev/sdb, SCSI device
/dev/sdc -d scsi # /dev/sdc, SCSI device
/dev/sdd -d scsi # /dev/sdd, SCSI device
/dev/sde -d scsi # /dev/sde, SCSI device
/dev/sdg -d scsi # /dev/sdg, SCSI device
/dev/nvme0 -d nvme # /dev/nvme0, NVMe device

As does ls /dev/disk/by-id/:

Code:

root@SKYSERVER[~]# ls /dev/disk/by-id/
ata-MKNSSDE3480GB_ME1603221001B5A89        nvme-INTEL_MEMPEK1J032GA_PHBT809300M3032P        scsi-35000c50040a436d3                                  wwn-0x5000c50040a436d3
ata-MKNSSDE3480GB_ME1603221001B5A89-part1  nvme-INTEL_MEMPEK1J032GA_PHBT809300M3032P-part1  scsi-35000c50040a446d3                                  wwn-0x5000c50040a446d3
ata-MKNSSDE3480GB_ME1603221001B5A89-part2  nvme-eui.5cd2e4661c1e0100                        usb-Samsung_Flash_Drive_FIT_0302321040009036-0:0        wwn-0x58889141001b5a89
ata-MKNSSDE3480GB_ME1603221001B5A89-part3  nvme-eui.5cd2e4661c1e0100-part1                  usb-Samsung_Flash_Drive_FIT_0302321040009036-0:0-part1  wwn-0x58889141001b5a89-part1
ata-MKNSSDE3480GB_ME1603221001B5A89-part4  scsi-35000c500350c81e3                           wwn-0x5000c500350c81e3                                  wwn-0x58889141001b5a89-part2
dm-name-sdg4                               scsi-35000c5004094551b                           wwn-0x5000c5004094551b                                  wwn-0x58889141001b5a89-part3
dm-uuid-CRYPT-PLAIN-sdg4                   scsi-35000c5004095732b                           wwn-0x5000c5004095732b                                  wwn-0x58889141001b5a89-part4

However, fdisk -l nets nothing:

Code:

root@SKYSERVER[~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 27.25 GiB, 29260513280 bytes, 57149440 sectors
Disk model: INTEL MEMPEK1J032GA                     
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: BD94ED42-A5B3-44B3-9856-28168C5B643B

Device         Start      End  Sectors  Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1    40 57149406 57149367 27.3G Solaris /usr & Apple ZFS


Disk /dev/sdg: 447.13 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
Disk model: MKNSSDE3480GB   
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: D451A3CE-41A2-4D61-990F-2A4CEF3027C7

Device        Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sdg1      4096      6143      2048     1M BIOS boot
/dev/sdg2      6144   1054719   1048576   512M EFI System
/dev/sdg3  34609152 937703054 903093903 430.6G Solaris /usr & Apple ZFS
/dev/sdg4   1054720  34609151  33554432    16G Linux swap

Partition table entries are not in disk order.


Disk /dev/sdf: 59.75 GiB, 64160400896 bytes, 125313283 sectors
Disk model: Flash Drive FIT
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 1AE6C1DD-5D2A-9444-A24F-65FCDA4AEF6E

Device     Start       End   Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdf1   2048 125313249 125311202 59.8G Linux filesystem


Disk /dev/mapper/sdg4: 16 GiB, 17179869184 bytes, 33554432 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

And neither does lsblk:

Code:

root@SKYSERVER[~]# lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
sdf           8:80   1  59.8G  0 disk 
└─sdf1        8:81   1  59.8G  0 part 
sdg           8:96   0 447.1G  0 disk 
├─sdg1        8:97   0     1M  0 part 
├─sdg2        8:98   0   512M  0 part 
├─sdg3        8:99   0 430.6G  0 part 
└─sdg4        8:100  0    16G  0 part 
  └─sdg4    253:0    0    16G  0 crypt [SWAP]
nvme0n1     259:0    0  27.3G  0 disk 
└─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0  27.3G  0 part  

B550 mITX motherboard on a headless server without any onboard graphics, or even PCIe slots, so flashing the firmware would be impractical. Hell, it was impractical just installing. The Ebay listing where I got the LSI card said it was already setup for this. Does anybody have any input or things worth trying regarding this?

Here's some info about the LSI card in lspci:

Code:

09:00.0 RAID bus controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Fujitsu Technology Solutions HBA Ctrl SAS 6G 0/1 [D2607]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 39, IOMMU group 16
        I/O ports at d000 
        Memory at c04c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Memory at c0080000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        Expansion ROM at c0000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [68] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [a8] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [c0] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=15 Masked-
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [138] Power Budgeting <?>
        Capabilities: [150] Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
        Capabilities: [190] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI)
        Kernel driver in use: mpt3sas
        Kernel modules: mpt3sas

Regards,
aean

 

[aean]

idk why the text size pumped near the end of the post there. I can't edit though, so I guess we all have to deal with it.