SMART Tests Haven't Been Running?

[Fleshmauler]

@koberulz

Can I get something specific on the HBA issue?

My experience buying and flashing a used LSI HBA (SAS9207-8i, aka SAS9208-8i, aka 2308) to replace my "dodgy port multiplier"

So, after the recent Dragonfish upgrade, my cheap no-name SATA port multiplier card stopped working. This problem was reported by multiple people and is being tracked as bug NAS-128478 by the TrueNAS engineers, but in the meantime I read through a lot of discussion about SATA port multipliers vs host bus adapters (HBAs), and in particular the “legendary” (according to the docs) LSI HBAs. Although I think using junk hardware in general is a fine and wonderful thing, I found several persuasive ar…

Not necessarilly specific to your exact hba or firmware, but goes over steps on how to find firmware and flash in pretty good detail. Should be a lot of parralels.

Edit: I’m also fairly certain that I previously linked to a post with your exact model of HBA as someone else in the past did upgrade the firmware; likely they also included steps & their experiences.