Proxmox 8.3 + TL-D800s + LSI 9207-8e

[RejectedGranny]

Hi, so I'm pretty new here...

My current setup is:
MS-01
TL-D800s
LSI 9207-8e
Virtualizing TrueNAS Scale in VM under Proxmox with PCI passthrough.

for now i'm populating the JBOD with 1 drive (in transition from DSM to TrueNAS) - my proxmox recognizes the drive, but also it lists ALL other bays (the empty ones), so we can see in the picture /dev/sdb as the drive, and 7 "drives" of model ASMT109x-_Config.

also noticed that sometimes on reboots, the drive is mounted as /dev/sda, sometimes as /dev/sdb and so on, i assume depends on the mounting ordered... i'm not sure if it matters that the mounting point changes for the drives (assuming later there's going to be more drives)



The problem is that once I pass the LSI HBA to the VM, the VM doesn't start because lots of `dev sdc sector 520 op...` (dev sdb would not fail) - aka, the actual drive...



Does anybody knows why this happens? how to I configure LSI HBA to "ignore" the empty drive bays? or how to configure TrueNAS Scale to ignore them?

With the QNAP PCI card it did not show the empty bays, but it had other issues with TrueNAS, that's why I chose to go with the LSI HBA...

Any assistance would be highly appreciated!
Thank you.

 

[waltar]

You cannot use (Netapp/EMC ?) disks with sector size 520 bytes and so need to reformat them
like eg. "sg_format --format --size=512 /dev/sdf".

 

[RejectedGranny]

sdX (b-h) are not really drives... so i cannot format a non-existing drive..

 

[waltar]

Where did you get virtual drives with 520 byte sectors from ?

 

[RejectedGranny]

Inside the TL-D800s there's only 1 physical drive (4TB), connecting the D800s to LSI-9207 shows 8 "drives" on proxmox...

 

[RejectedGranny]

Trying to format (sg_format) fails

 

[waltar]

Aah, die TL-D800s ist eine Qnap, die macht (soweit ich das ermitteln kann) und mag daher auch keine 520byte Platten (aus einer Natapp/EMC) ?!
Wenn du nicht explizit in der Doku was davon liest, daß 520byte Sektoren verwendet werden ..., Platte ausbauen, mit sg_format auf 512byte bringen und wieder zurück in die Qnap. (7x virtuelle 105 MB Volumes aus einer 4 TB Platte ...,)

 

[RejectedGranny]

That did not work =\
the 4TB works fine, it is 512 bytes