I have a SuperMicro 6036ST-LR chassis (Nexgen N5) dual-node shared storage bridge chassis. It uses a LSI-SAS2008-IR mezzanine card in each node to attach to a 16 disk shared SAS Expander on the front of the chassis.
I wanted to follow up, I had issues where the disks would not show up in the UI but would report in `camcontrol -devlist` and I received unique serial numbers for each disk using `camcontrol -S <devname>`.. smartctl also was able to read the smart data from each disk as well.
Assuming this was a firmware issue (I was on 11.00.01.00), I upgraded to 20.00.04.00 on each LSI SAS2008-IR mezz.
Retreieved DOS firmware at
supermicro.com. I copied all the rom files in the IR firmware onto a freshly installed 13.0-U3 instance on each node and translated the `sas2flsh.exe` commands in the bat file to `sas2flash` commands on TrueNAS. All went well. Still no disks in the UI.
I was about to jump to IT firmware, when I noticed that DNS wasn't resolving at the CLI and middlewared was failing to start in the logs. There were also a bunch of failures to install plugins.
I updated the DNS configuration in my DHCP server, /etc/resolv.conf and in the UI to point to 1.1.1.1 and rebooted. This time, the primary node once rebooted began installing plugins and eventually middlewared completed its startup process. Now all disks are visible in the UI.
I am not sure if I was just being impatient and TrueNAS hadn't completed its installation, or if the lack of DNS was an issue. Either way, all is well now.