Hi. Having a strange drive detection issue. First I will give you my config and a little history, then the specific issue. But basicall I hace 2 1T drives and 6 6T drives and the HBA is detecting 8 6T drives (and not the existing config, that I could import if the drives were detecting correctly).
Build is as follows:
Server
--Dell R620
--Perc H810
Rosewill 12 bay server chassis
--old intel core mobo+cpu (to power SAS expander)
--550W PSU
--HP 468406-B21 SAS Expander (do not know firmware revision)
--SFF-8088 to SFF-8087 Pass through
--RAID-6 (6x 6TB SATA NAS drives)
--RAID-1 (2x 1TB SATA drives)
This is the basic setup. The server was already built and the drives in a makeshift PC case wired directly to the PERC controller. It was ugly, and had no way to add hot spares or expand.
I just built out the rosewill case and got the expander to make it neater and allow for growth.
The PERC has both external SFF-8088 conenctors wired to the pass through, then SFF8087 to the expander. Four of the expanders backplane connectors are wired to the drive bays using SFF-8087 to 4x SATA cables.
All looks good, the expander and all drives/fans/drive LEDs power as expected. However the PERC does not detect the drives correctly. It detects a foreign config which is not entirely suprising, but it only shows one 6TB drive with a config. When I look at physical drives it shows all 8 drives, but instead of detecting 6x6TB and 2x1TB it shows 8 6TB drives. For grins I added another 1TB drive in a spare bay and rebooted. It then shows 9x 6TB drives.
Could this be a firmware issue, or has anyone seen anything like thie before?
I can probably update the firmware as I have an old HP server I can but linux on (once I put some RAM in it, someone scavenged the RAM).
Thanks in advance!
Build is as follows:
Server
--Dell R620
--Perc H810
Rosewill 12 bay server chassis
--old intel core mobo+cpu (to power SAS expander)
--550W PSU
--HP 468406-B21 SAS Expander (do not know firmware revision)
--SFF-8088 to SFF-8087 Pass through
--RAID-6 (6x 6TB SATA NAS drives)
--RAID-1 (2x 1TB SATA drives)
This is the basic setup. The server was already built and the drives in a makeshift PC case wired directly to the PERC controller. It was ugly, and had no way to add hot spares or expand.
I just built out the rosewill case and got the expander to make it neater and allow for growth.
The PERC has both external SFF-8088 conenctors wired to the pass through, then SFF8087 to the expander. Four of the expanders backplane connectors are wired to the drive bays using SFF-8087 to 4x SATA cables.
All looks good, the expander and all drives/fans/drive LEDs power as expected. However the PERC does not detect the drives correctly. It detects a foreign config which is not entirely suprising, but it only shows one 6TB drive with a config. When I look at physical drives it shows all 8 drives, but instead of detecting 6x6TB and 2x1TB it shows 8 6TB drives. For grins I added another 1TB drive in a spare bay and rebooted. It then shows 9x 6TB drives.
Could this be a firmware issue, or has anyone seen anything like thie before?
I can probably update the firmware as I have an old HP server I can but linux on (once I put some RAM in it, someone scavenged the RAM).
Thanks in advance!