Hi,
I recently purchased a S1400FP server board along with the upgrade key C600 (RKSATA8R5) for enabling all of the 8 SATA/SAS ports in SATA mode.
However it is stated in the monthly specification update that RSTe is not supportable in linux operating systems, it did not mention that the pass-through mode did not work.
Can someone confirm that this is the case and provide information on whether this is planned to be fixed or not fixed?
I have 4 disks in a OS controlled software raid 5 (by mdadm) and want to use the pass-through functionality of the SATA/SAS controller. THe problem that I am seeing is the following:
* Every second time I reboot, only 2 of the 4 drives are readable and mdadm fails to reassemble the array
* All other times I reboot, 3 of 4 drives are detectable, and the array is assembled in a degraded mode.
* It is always the same hard drives that fail. The hard drives are in working order (bad blocks and smart tests are performed)
* When I move all drives to the AHCI sata ports all drives are detected and the raid assembles perfectly, always (i rebooted 10 times).
* I have seen similar problems on other server boards here:
* My hard drives in the raid array:
HDD1:
| Model Family: | Western Digital Caviar Green |
| Device Model: | WDC WD10EADS-00M2B0 |
| Serial Number: | WD-WCAV51002022 |
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2add5365b
Firmware Version: 01.00A01
| User Capacity: | 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] |
| Sector Size: | 512 bytes logical/physical |
| Device is: | In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] |
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
| Local Time is: | Wed Aug 14 13:46:41 2013 CEST |
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
HDD2:
| Model Family: | Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 |
| Device Model: | ST31000528AS |
| Serial Number: | 9VP17SJA |
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 015605d3b
Firmware Version: CC35
| User Capacity: | 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] |
| Sector Size: | 512 bytes logical/physical |
| Device is: | In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] |
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4
| Local Time is: | Wed Aug 14 13:49:44 2013 CEST |
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
HDD3:
| Model Family: | SAMSUNG SpinPoint F1 DT |
| Device Model: | SAMSUNG HD103UJ |
| Serial Number: | S13PJ1LS651116 |
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0024e9 001acfb0a
Firmware Version: 1AA01118
| User Capacity: | 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] |
| Sector Size: | 512 bytes logical/physical |
| Device is: | In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] |
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 3b
| Local Time is: | Wed Aug 14 13:53:32 2013 CEST |
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
HDD4:
| Model Family: | Western Digital Caviar Black |
| Device Model: | WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B0 |
| Serial Number: | WD-WMATV2735250 |
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 0ac274bc8
Firmware Version: 05.00K05
| User Capacity: | 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] |
| Sector Size: | 512 bytes logical/physical |
| Device is: | In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] |
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
| Local Time is: | Wed Aug 14 13:56:05 2013 CEST |
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Hard drive HDD1 is the one who is never detected by the SATA/SAS controller, and HDD2 is detected every second time I reboot. When I loog into the OS, HDD2 is always readable, but HDD1 is never readable. They all work on the AHCI capable SATA controllers without problems.
I am aware that this could be a HDD firmware related issue, but I would like to make sure it is not a known problem with the SATA/SAS controller pass-through in S1400FP first.
I appreciate all the help and tips I can get to fix this issue as I really want to use the SATA/SAS controller in SATA pass-through mode.
Thank you