SAS Drives Not Recognized

[HomeSadder]

Hi everyone,

I've got a Dell H310 PERC flashed to IT mode in a Dell R710 chassis, which should support SAS and SATA on the backplane. I recently got two new SSD SAS drives for it, and the HBA's don't seem to like the drives. It says "State: Blocked". Anyone have any ideas as to what's going on here? Latest P20 firmware, I think.

http://imgur.com/neOQ9cC

http://imgur.com/XZqSuc3

Thanks in advance,

 

[BeTeP]

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/how-to-reformat-hdd-ssd-to-512b-sector-size.4968/

 

[HomeSadder]

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/how-to-reformat-hdd-ssd-to-512b-sector-size.4968/

Tried that already, sg3-utils doesn't even see the drive passed through to the OS.


root@pxmx03:~# sg_scan -i
/dev/sg0: scsi3 channel=0 id=0 lun=0
ATA KINGSTON SVP200S BBF0 [rmb=0 cmdq=1 pqual=0 pdev=0x0]
/dev/sg1: scsi3 channel=0 id=1 lun=0
ATA SAMSUNG MZ7PD256 6H6Q [rmb=0 cmdq=1 pqual=0 pdev=0x0]
/dev/sg2: scsi3 channel=0 id=2 lun=0
ATA SAMSUNG MZ7PD256 6H6Q [rmb=0 cmdq=1 pqual=0 pdev=0x0]
root@pxmx03:~#

 

[HomeSadder]

Bump on this topic. Why would a drive show as blocked in the LSI config options?

 

[vanfawx]

Try using a LSI HBA in IT mode. The H310 is in iMR (Integrated MegaRaid) mode, which can't work non-512 byte sector drives. A LSI 9211-8i is a popular choice.

The BIOS screen you're showing is the Dell H310 interface, not the LSI IT BIOS. Are you sure the flash to IT mode worked as expected?

 

[Spartacus]

^ This ~ I used this guide on all my H310s to convert them to the 9211 IT mode equivalent: Flash Dell PERC H310 to LSI 9211-8i IT Mode Using Legacy (DOS) and UEFI Method (HBA Firmware + BIOS) | JC-LAN.org

I did **** it up my first time, I was able to reflash/erase it to stock and try again though, so I imagine its pretty hard to fully brick it.