Ok, I was on here before under another sign in but forgot my credentials as I upgraded my browser. I had scale installed and working for a few years. It was working perfectly until my power supply failed. I replaced my power supply with a much better one, and still could not get Scale to install. After trying for weeks I ended up replacing my entire machine and hard drives. I was thinking stuff got corrupted from the power supply spiking over 3 weeks. So I got a deal on some new hardware to fill the case, here is the list.
Motherboard is an ASUS P6t with a core i-7 950 MHz cpu.
Memory is 36 GB of Corsair Vengence DDR3 ram (3 8GB and 3 4GB)
1000 gold power supply
LSI HBA card
11 2TB Western Digital Sata hard drives. 1 Samsung 250GB Sata SSD (7 hard drives and ssd connected to the motherboard and 4 connected to HBA card)
Jbod has 16 SAS drives with 3 and 4 TB on another LSI HBA card
I tried to install core and got it to install. When I upgrade it to Scale it fails. When I try booting with Scale if fails. I tried setting my bios to basic settings. It ran farther, but after 3 days, no boot. So I disconnect the JBOD and try to boot and I see failures on most lines such as Failure at drivers/scsi/mp3_sas transport….and a few others. I open bios and try different settings but I have no idea where the problem lies. I tried configuring drives as AHCI, IDE, Raid no change. I reformatted and wiped all drives. No change I’ve tried using Rufus in MBR and GPT as well as Balena Etcher and 5 different versions of scale with different results, but still no boot. Tomorrow I am going to find the latest Bios for the motherboard and retry. Beyond that I am lost.
My system has been down since October 27th. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Use Rufus and chose DD method for burning the USB drive. Computer should just have 3x 4GB sticks in the correct slots per MB manual. Manual say 12GB Max. if I have the correct one. Boot drive only, remove all other unnecessary hardware. What HBA cards do you have? MB says 3 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (at x16 / x16 / x4 mode)
Thanks so much you gave me some stuff to consider. However,I’ve tried with just 12 gb in slots a, and 9 gb in slots a only with no luck. I’ve tried with all hardware removed, and with just the drives connected to the motherboard directly. Tomorrow I will try with only the ssd. I have an 468406-B21 HP LSI HBA card in both the jbod and server. I have another HP HBA card to use that has the port for connecting to the jbod, and 2 more stand alone. All are switched to IT mode, I have also tried without any HBA card or drives connected. Right now my plans stands to remove all drives but the boot drive, remove the HBA, and reset the bios back to basic settings, then after upgrading the bios to the latest version I can find as well as reducing memory. Otherwise I see no hope for this system. One last issue is I am seeing failures all over as I watch the script run
I know this is an older mobo, but it has the option of more memory (6 slots) to make operation faster. So that is why I chose it. This is my prime server. Once up I have already started building another server from scratch for an offsite backup.
Screw it I am disconnectiong everything but the boot right now and see. I’m off work tomorrow. So we’ll see
Are you sure on the motherboard model? There is a P6T and a P6T Deluxe on Asus
Those old motherboards use triple channel memory. You should have been using three sticks of the 4GB ram. If I got the correct MB manual, it topped out at 12GB so that would mean 6x 2GB in all the slots. You also need to check the speed as it required pretty slow RAM. 1333 / 1066 per manual. I doubt it will go any faster with all the slots filled. You need to make sure to read the QVL documentation for supported RAM configurations as it has footnotes on what slots can be filled.
I have an old Alienware (Dell) with an Intel Core i7 920 with the triple channel RAM. I think I am 18GB but it took me a bit to get the correct slots populated. My MB is rated for up to 24GB.
Woohoo! Last night I removed all hard drives except the SSD and removed my HBA card and I was able to boot Core. Once booted I was able to upgrade to scale. When I shut down and connceted everything boot errors appeared and no boot. Shut down and removed all drives connected to the HBA, errors and no boot. Switched HBA cards and connected the drives and it booted! So it was my HBA card that failed! At some point I questioned the HBA and had bought another and it worked!
