dashoe
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Some background
We've been running a Dell R730xd with TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.0 for about a year now. It functions but performs poorly. After scouring this forum, I'm fairly certain the the poor performance is due to the PERC H730p Mini raid controller (it's in HBA mode) which is running 24 drives (2.5" 10K rpm 600GB). I've pulled the unit out of operation to address the storage controller (I'll seek advice for that in another post) and to install larger capacity drives. There are no pools execpt for the boot pool.
TrueNAS was only showing 23 of the 24 drives (I'm not using the two rear drive bays). In order to determine which drive was not being recognized, I pulled out all but the two boot drives and then re-inserted them one by one while watching the output of dmesg -W
The last line above identified the faulty drive.
Now for my question - When I inserted a 1TB drive, I got no output from dmesg. I tried several known good 1TB drives in several drive bays and no response at all. I'm counting on being able to use 1TB and even larger drives in this system, I'm looking for any idea why these drives aren't being recognized?
Thanks
600 GB Drives - 10K SAS HP Model EG0600FBLSH
1TB Drives - Dell Constellation.2 7.2K SAS Model ST9000640SS
Dell R730xd
2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz
256 GB ECC
We've been running a Dell R730xd with TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.0 for about a year now. It functions but performs poorly. After scouring this forum, I'm fairly certain the the poor performance is due to the PERC H730p Mini raid controller (it's in HBA mode) which is running 24 drives (2.5" 10K rpm 600GB). I've pulled the unit out of operation to address the storage controller (I'll seek advice for that in another post) and to install larger capacity drives. There are no pools execpt for the boot pool.
TrueNAS was only showing 23 of the 24 drives (I'm not using the two rear drive bays). In order to determine which drive was not being recognized, I pulled out all but the two boot drives and then re-inserted them one by one while watching the output of dmesg -W
Code:
dmesg -W ... [ 241.298121] scsi 0:0:13:0: Direct-Access HP EG0600FBLSH HPD8 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 241.300577] sd 0:0:13:0: Attached scsi generic sg14 type 0 [ 241.301939] sd 0:0:13:0: [sdn] 1172123568 512-byte logical blocks: (600 GB/559 GiB) [ 241.302332] sd 0:0:13:0: [sdn] Write Protect is off [ 241.302384] sd 0:0:13:0: [sdn] Mode Sense: e7 00 10 08 [ 241.302871] sd 0:0:13:0: [sdn] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA [ 241.370814] sd 0:0:13:0: [sdn] Attached SCSI disk ... [ 261.353341] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: 126457 (754776072s/0x0002/FATAL) - Unable to access device PD 17(e0x20/s23)
The last line above identified the faulty drive.
Now for my question - When I inserted a 1TB drive, I got no output from dmesg. I tried several known good 1TB drives in several drive bays and no response at all. I'm counting on being able to use 1TB and even larger drives in this system, I'm looking for any idea why these drives aren't being recognized?
Thanks
600 GB Drives - 10K SAS HP Model EG0600FBLSH
1TB Drives - Dell Constellation.2 7.2K SAS Model ST9000640SS
Dell R730xd
2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz
256 GB ECC