I have tried everything I can think of and I’m at a loss here and figure now’s the time to ask for help. truenas CE/core running on an hp dl 380 g6, 192gb ram, I’ve tried multiple different IT mode HBa’s with and without sas expander, multiple different jbod chassis, and even tried putting 2 test d…

high likelihood that one’s the onboard controller the board has built in. the only thing running through that is the boot ssd’s due to not really having any way to get it to play nice with a boot disk, though those are setup in single disk pass-through per ssd.

Fair enough. Do you have another motherboard, even just consumer grade, to try to rule out cpu/ram/mobo ?

absolutely, problem is, not many of them short of other servers are practical to get up and running on short notice, so at the risk of a stupid question, would another server work for the task? I can grab one of the other working HBA’s that are IT mode and pop it into another server I have, dl 360 G…

Post each command results in it’s own Preformatted Text window (</>) or Ctrl+e. I think trying to shove everything in one caused issues. You can switch to a Preview mode in the reply editor by clicking on the far left M / A icon. It may help you to see if the preview looks ‘correct’ to how you in…

I did try and put each blob in its own < > chunk but I guess I butchered it somehow, likely, assuming at least, not adding a space after the end of the command line $ spot, but that’s just a guess, I wont do anything for the time being and will wait to be asked to do something lest I goof something …

I can confirm that’s the HBA….though now I’m left to ask how/why in the crap its showing in IR mode when I explicitly bought an IT mode card on ebay, unless I’m misreading that, that would seem to indicate that HBA is NOT good to use and is in raid mode, though I suppose I could try and confirm that…

[image] mmd123: the only thing running through that is the boot ssd’ Nevertheless maybe that causes problems? There are errors like failed to unpack label and bad label cksum? Maybe try to boot from a different device like usb, just for testing. IIRC people had issues creating a data pool b…

I mean….honestly that’s easy as heck to test just to cover bases, I have half the front drive-bays using the onboard controller and the other half using the HBA so literally just swap sides and reboot….cant hurt to try at least?

okay, so I can absolutely confirm, though that blob says its in IR mode, invoking the bootup sas utility confirms its in IT mode and running firmware 7.15.08.00-IT, wanted to look at that while rebooting just to see what it showed.

well crap. it did not like trying to boot from the drives when not on the onboard controller so I get to reinstall and go from there so, some delay in my next reply.

Okay I'm at a loss and need to ask for help

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SmallBarky May 2, 2026, 6:30pm 31

See resources section. Should be correct section for HBA info

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Okay I'm at a loss and need to ask for help

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