Hello all, I'm new here and looking for some help on my server. Not sure if this is the right section to post, Admin please move if needed.
I have a Dell R720 server running Truenas Scale with a Dell perc H710 mini that is flashed to IT mode (reporting as LSI SAS9207-8i firmware 20.00.07.00). it has been fine up until I purchased several 3tb Seagate Constellation ES.2 SAS drives to expand the raid pool.
I started off by removing the existing drives and installing 8 of these new - used drives into the slots to begin burn-in testing on them to verify if they are good and ready to use. when booting up into truenas, I can see all 8 drives but they all are showing 0mb. I have gone through wiping them and attempted to create a zfs pool which failed.
then I went on the go into the Debian shell attempting to run some tests on them. smart status shows them only for a short test and all check out, but attempting to create a partition on them in order to run badblocks test failed. I also tried booting into a windows install usb just to attempt a format. that also didn't work.
lastly I rebooting the server into the Avago utility and began formatting each drive from there. the first drive as of 10 hours ago is still currently formatting the drive. It's showing progress at about 3/4's complete, but I feel this is excessively a long time to do a low level format on a 3tb drive!
I did some searching online and found very little information on what to do, but I am wondering if there is something up with my raid controller too old or not being compatible with these drives. I looked on Seagate's website to see if there is a firmware update for the drives and nothing was available there.
I also have another LSI H200 SAS 9210-8i P20 HBA card I can try to connect these drives and see if I get any different results, but I think this card is older than the H710 for compatibility.
has anyone ran into this type of issue and was able to find a solution on this? are there other checks or utilities I can run to confirm if there is a hardware compatibility issue?
I have a Dell R720 server running Truenas Scale with a Dell perc H710 mini that is flashed to IT mode (reporting as LSI SAS9207-8i firmware 20.00.07.00). it has been fine up until I purchased several 3tb Seagate Constellation ES.2 SAS drives to expand the raid pool.
I started off by removing the existing drives and installing 8 of these new - used drives into the slots to begin burn-in testing on them to verify if they are good and ready to use. when booting up into truenas, I can see all 8 drives but they all are showing 0mb. I have gone through wiping them and attempted to create a zfs pool which failed.
then I went on the go into the Debian shell attempting to run some tests on them. smart status shows them only for a short test and all check out, but attempting to create a partition on them in order to run badblocks test failed. I also tried booting into a windows install usb just to attempt a format. that also didn't work.
lastly I rebooting the server into the Avago utility and began formatting each drive from there. the first drive as of 10 hours ago is still currently formatting the drive. It's showing progress at about 3/4's complete, but I feel this is excessively a long time to do a low level format on a 3tb drive!
I did some searching online and found very little information on what to do, but I am wondering if there is something up with my raid controller too old or not being compatible with these drives. I looked on Seagate's website to see if there is a firmware update for the drives and nothing was available there.
I also have another LSI H200 SAS 9210-8i P20 HBA card I can try to connect these drives and see if I get any different results, but I think this card is older than the H710 for compatibility.
has anyone ran into this type of issue and was able to find a solution on this? are there other checks or utilities I can run to confirm if there is a hardware compatibility issue?
