I have a unique problem with a new TrueNAS Scale. I have a drive that keeps power cycling and only does this when TrueNAS is booted. The drive itself is good and was confirmed by booting into a clean windows installation. When TrueNAS is booted, it starts doing a power flap stating that sectors are bad when they are not. Based on my research, it appears that the mpt3sas driver (43.100.0.0) is out of date in Debian. Ive updated the firmware on my SAS controller LSI3008. I have moved the affected drive to a different slot which works fine. Then a random different disk will start doing the same symptoms. There is nothing wrong with the hardware just the TrueNAS installation is not happy. How can we update the mpt3sas driver to the most current version available on Broadcom’s website? I have seen posts that v47.0.0 and higher resolve this issue.
No, manually updating the driver like you describe is not supported.
Post a bug report (top of this page) explaining your issue and it may be added in a future update.
Thanks for the report @seth
Is it all one particular drive model that is flapping, or do multiples have this behavior?
I’d definitely like to see a debug and bug report filed for this, using either the “Report a Bug” link at the top of the forums, or the “Smiley-Face” in the TrueNAS UI - you will need a Jira login for this.
@seth it looks like TrueNAS Scale 25.04 (future release) has v48.### of mpt3sas. Of course, 25.04 is nightly only right now, but I wonder if you can attempt a test with a nightly build to check if the higher driver version resolves your specific issue?
Also BTW, can you link to the post(s) where you saw the higher mpt3sas version would resolve this particular problem?
Ive had to put it on the back burner for a bit. They are all the same drive and its usually specific slots. You can boot into other OS’s such as Windows, Linux and they work fine. Just TrueNas Scale has issues with it. Im hoping to revisit this soon. Im looking at a hardware upgrade in a few months and will try it again. The posts I found regarding the higher version of the SAS driver were discovered in various reddits and websites based on the issues I was having. The firmware on my controllers were up to date. But will revisit soon as I need the storage to host my streaming video library.