After digging around on forums trying to find a solution, I finally came across XS and quickly realized this is not the average forum.
So I have a Fujitsu SAS Raid 5/6 LSI controller as shipped with a Primergy TX-200 S5. I have installed some NetApp OEM'd as Seagate ST3600057SS. I have flashed these to Seagate firmware with no issues. My problem is with creating a RAID+1 config the controller disables the drives and marks them bad each time it attempts to initialize them. So i assume my problem is with them being an un-certified disk per Fujitsu LDDB (whatever its called).
So how can I determine the LSI chipset/model and/or change the un-certified attribute to allow?
Also I may need to validate that this is indeed the problem as I have not witnessed any error messages. I'm simply going off experience in uncharted territory.
/opt/lsi/MegaCLI # ./MegaCli -AdpAllInfo -a0
Adapter #0
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Versions
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Product Name : RAID 5/6 SAS based on LSI MegaRAID
Serial No :
FW Package Build: 11.0.1-0051
Mfg. Data
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Mfg. Date : 00/00/00
Rework Date : 00/00/00
Revision No :
Battery FRU : N/A
Image Versions in Flash:
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FW Version : 1.40.352-2004
BIOS Version : 2.07.00
WebBIOS Version : 2.2-22-e_15-Rel
Preboot CLI Version: 01.40-010:#%00008
Boot Block Version : 1.00.00.01-0012
Pending Images in Flash
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None
PCI Info
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Controller Id : 0000
Vendor Id : 1000
Device Id : 0060
SubVendorId : 1734
SubDeviceId : 10f9
Host Interface : PCIE
Link Speed : 0
Number of Frontend Port: 0
Device Interface : PCIE
Number of Backend Port: 8
Port : Address
0 5000c500176fcb31
1 5000c500176f79e5
2 5000c500241b7e8d
3 5000c500284227b1
4 0000000000000000
5 0000000000000000
6 0000000000000000
7 0000000000000000
HW Configuration
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SAS Address : 5003005700aed2c0
BBU : Present
Alarm : Present
NVRAM : Present
Serial Debugger : Present
Memory : Present
Flash : Present
Memory Size : 256MB
TPM : Absent
On board Expander: Absent
Upgrade Key : Absent
Temperature sensor for ROC : Absent
Temperature sensor for controller : Absent
Settings
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Current Time : 4:57:28 8/23, 2013
Predictive Fail Poll Interval : 300sec
Interrupt Throttle Active Count : 16
Interrupt Throttle Completion : 50us
Rebuild Rate : 30%
PR Rate : 20%
BGI Rate : 30%
Check Consistency Rate : 30%
Reconstruction Rate : 30%
Cache Flush Interval : 4s
Max Drives to Spinup at One Time : 2
Delay Among Spinup Groups : 6s
Physical Drive Coercion Mode : Disabled
Cluster Mode : Disabled
Alarm : Disabled
Auto Rebuild : Enabled
Battery Warning : Enabled
Ecc Bucket Size : 15
Ecc Bucket Leak Rate : 1440 Minutes
Restore HotSpare on Insertion : Enabled
Expose Enclosure Devices : Disabled
Maintain PD Fail History : Enabled
Host Request Reordering : Enabled
Auto Detect BackPlane Enabled : SGPIO/i2c SEP
Load Balance Mode : Auto
Use FDE Only : No
Security Key Assigned : No
Security Key Failed : No
Security Key Not Backedup : No
Default LD PowerSave Policy : Controller Defined
Maximum number of direct attached drives to spin up in 1 min : 0
Auto Enhanced Import : No
Any Offline VD Cache Preserved : No
Allow Boot with Preserved Cache : No
Disable Online Controller Reset : No
PFK in NVRAM : No
Use disk activity for locate : No
POST delay : 1 seconds
BIOS Error Handling : Pause on Errors
Current Boot Mode :Normal
Capabilities
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RAID Level Supported : RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID00, RAID10, RAID50, RAID60, PRL 11, PRL 11 with spanning, SRL 3 supported, PRL11-RLQ0 DDF layout with no span, PRL11-RLQ0 DDF layout with span
Supported Drives : SAS, SATA
Allowed Mixing:
Mix in Enclosure Allowed
Status
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ECC Bucket Count : 0
Limitations
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Max Arms Per VD : 32
Max Spans Per VD : 8
Max Arrays : 128
Max Number of VDs : 64
Max Parallel Commands : 1008
Max SGE Count : 80
Max Data Transfer Size : 8192 sectors
Max Strips PerIO : 42
Max LD per array : 16
Min Strip Size : 8 KB
Max Strip Size : 1.0 MB
Max Configurable CacheCade Size: 0 GB
Current Size of CacheCade : 0 GB
Current Size of FW Cache : 0 MB
Device Present
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Virtual Drives : 2
Degraded : 0
Offline : 0
Physical Devices : 5
Disks : 4
Critical Disks : 0
Failed Disks : 0
Supported Adapter Operations
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Rebuild Rate : Yes
CC Rate : Yes
BGI Rate : Yes
Reconstruct Rate : Yes
Patrol Read Rate : Yes
Alarm Control : Yes
Cluster Support : No
BBU : Yes
Spanning : Yes
Dedicated Hot Spare : Yes
Revertible Hot Spares : Yes
Foreign Config Import : Yes
Self Diagnostic : Yes
Allow Mixed Redundancy on Array : No
Global Hot Spares : Yes
Deny SCSI Passthrough : No
Deny SMP Passthrough : No
Deny STP Passthrough : No
Support Security : No
Snapshot Enabled : No
Support the OCE without adding drives : No
Support PFK : No
Support PI : No
Support Boot Time PFK Change : No
Disable Online PFK Change : No
Support Shield State : No
Block SSD Write Disk Cache Change: No
Support Data LD on SSC Array : No
Supported VD Operations
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Read Policy : Yes
Write Policy : Yes
IO Policy : Yes
Access Policy : Yes
Disk Cache Policy : Yes
Reconstruction : Yes
Deny Locate : No
Deny CC : No
Allow Ctrl Encryption: No
Enable LDBBM : No
Support Breakmirror : No
Power Savings : No
Supported PD Operations
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Force Online : Yes
Force Offline : Yes
Force Rebuild : Yes
Deny Force Failed : No
Deny Force Good/Bad : No
Deny Missing Replace : No
Deny Clear : No
Deny Locate : No
Support Temperature : No
Disable Copyback : No
Enable JBOD : No
Enable Copyback on SMART : No
Enable Copyback to SSD on SMART Error : Yes
Enable SSD Patrol Read : No
PR Correct Unconfigured Areas : Yes
Enable Spin Down of UnConfigured Drives : No
Disable Spin Down of hot spares : No
Spin Down time : 0
T10 Power State : No
Error Counters
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Memory Correctable Errors : 0
Memory Uncorrectable Errors : 0
Cluster Information
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Cluster Permitted : No
Cluster Active : No
Default Settings
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Phy Polarity : 0
Phy PolaritySplit : 0
Background Rate : 30
Strip Size : 64kB
Flush Time : 4 seconds
Write Policy : WT
Read Policy : None
Cache When BBU Bad : Disabled
Cached IO : No
SMART Mode : Mode 6
Alarm Disable : No
Coercion Mode : None
ZCR Config : Unknown
Dirty LED Shows Drive Activity : No
BIOS Continue on Error : 1
Spin Down Mode : None
Allowed Device Type : SAS/SATA Mix
Allow Mix in Enclosure : Yes
Allow HDD SAS/SATA Mix in VD : No
Allow SSD SAS/SATA Mix in VD : No
Allow HDD/SSD Mix in VD : No
Allow SATA in Cluster : No
Max Chained Enclosures : 3
Disable Ctrl-R : Yes
Enable Web BIOS : Yes
Direct PD Mapping : No
BIOS Enumerate VDs : Yes
Restore Hot Spare on Insertion : Yes
Expose Enclosure Devices : No
Maintain PD Fail History : Yes
Disable Puncturing : No
Zero Based Enclosure Enumeration : No
PreBoot CLI Enabled : Yes
LED Show Drive Activity : Yes
Cluster Disable : Yes
SAS Disable : No
Auto Detect BackPlane Enable : SGPIO/i2c SEP
Use FDE Only : No
Enable Led Header : No
Delay during POST : 0
EnableCrashDump : No
Disable Online Controller Reset : No
EnableLDBBM : No
Un-Certified Hard Disk Drives : Block
Treat Single span R1E as R10 : No
Max LD per array : 16
Power Saving option : All power saving options are enabled
Default spin down time in minutes: 0
Enable JBOD : No
Time taken to detect CME : 60s
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