The Spyder
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I came across a strange one today at work. We have a newer ZFS NAS filled with 24 1.5tb drives and 20 1tb drives. I had some issues a few weeks back with some of the 1tb drives dropping (they were leftovers when this was built- I had two 16gb sticks fail and chocked it up to that), so I ordered 1.5tb Seagate 7200.14 drives to replace them. Yesterday, I installed the drives and ran in to a plethora of problems! First, the blue light stays on constantly on every drive. Second, the drives randomly detect in the LSI bios. Some times 0 will show up, some times 4 will show up, other times 16 will show up. At the same time, I upgraded out SSD's (2x80gb to 2x 512) and those won't detect period.
I switched controllers (we have 3 per system), I switched cables, I even switched JBODs.
All I can come up with is the LSI expander on the backplane must be SATA 2 and something is not right. (Backplane is SAS846El1). I am going to check the LSI firmware, but I can't shake the feeling it's the backplane. Has anyone else seen this?
I switched controllers (we have 3 per system), I switched cables, I even switched JBODs.
All I can come up with is the LSI expander on the backplane must be SATA 2 and something is not right. (Backplane is SAS846El1). I am going to check the LSI firmware, but I can't shake the feeling it's the backplane. Has anyone else seen this?