HP Smart Array P812 HBA mode Masked Drives

Question

I have an HP Smart Array P812 card flashed to HBA mode. Kernel patched Linux for this module, Ubuntu 22. Everything was working a week ago, I had passthrough of the drives, I even used them to test the setup and copied files, etc. It worked. Starting two days ago it just wasn't showing up anymore. I rebooted, no change.

Pulled up ssacli to check controller and drives, seems like everything is ok, but drives still don't show up on lsblk.

$ ssacli ctrl all show detail
Smart Array P812 in Slot 4
   Bus Interface: PCI
   Slot: 4
   Serial Number: PAGXQ0ARHZY04W
   Cache Serial Number: PBCDF0CRH0D5U9
   RAID 6 Status: Enabled
   Controller Status: OK
   Hardware Revision: C
   Firmware Version: 3.66
   Firmware Supports Online Firmware Activation: False
   Cache Board Present: True
   Cache Status: Not Configured
   Total Cache Size: 1.0
   Total Cache Memory Available: 0.9
   Battery Backed Cache Size: 0.9
   Cache Backup Power Source: Capacitors
   Battery/Capacitor Count: 1
   Battery/Capacitor Status: OK
   Number of Ports: 6 (2 Internal / 4 External )
   Driver Name: hpsa
   Driver Version: 3.4.20
   WWN Port: 50014380132301B0
   HBA Mode Enabled: True
   PCI Address (Domain:Bus:Device.Function): 0000:42:00.0
   Port Max Phy Rate Limiting Supported: False
   Sanitize Erase Supported: False
   Primary Boot Volume: None
   Secondary Boot Volume: None
   SPDM Supports Get Slot Certificate Chain: no
   SPDM Supports Get Controller Info       : no
   SPDM Supports Get Slot Info             : no
   SPDM Supports Set Import Certificate    : no
   SPDM Supports Set Invalidate Slot       : no
   Surface Scan Completion Supported: False
   Persistent Event Log Policy Change Supported: False
$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP       Model: P812             Rev: 3.66
  Type:   RAID                             ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ST3146356SS      Rev: HS0F
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
  Vendor: WD       Model: WD3001FYYG-01SL3 Rev: VR07
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 06
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
  Vendor: WD       Model: WD3001FYYG-01SL3 Rev: VR07
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 06
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
  Vendor: WD       Model: WD3001FYYG-01SL3 Rev: VR07
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 06
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ST3146356SS      Rev: HS0F
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
  Vendor: WD       Model: WD3001FYYG-01SL3 Rev: VR07
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 06
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
  Vendor: WD       Model: WD3001FYYG-01SL3 Rev: VR07
$ ssacli ctrl slot=4 pd all show detail
Smart Array P812 in Slot 4
HBA Drives
  physicaldrive 4E:1:1
     Port: 4E
     Box: 1
     Bay: 1
     Status: OK
     Drive Type: HBA Mode Drive
     Interface Type: Solid State SATA
     Size: 2 TB
     Drive exposed to OS: False
     Logical/Physical Block Size: 512/512
     Firmware Revision: U1014A0
     Serial Number: AA202300002100001831
     WWID: 50014380042BA501
     Model: ATA     SSD 2TB
     SATA NCQ Capable: True
     SATA NCQ Enabled: True
     SSD Smart Trip Wearout: Not Supported
     PHY Count: 1
     PHY Transfer Rate: 1.5Gbps
     PHY Physical Link Rate: Unknown
     PHY Maximum Link Rate: Unknown
     Sanitize Erase Supported: False
     Shingled Magnetic Recording Support: None

If I check out dmesg is knows they are there but they are masked. I've tried re-running modprobe hbsa but no change, not to mention it should run that at boot anyways, I rebooted a few times after getting all this to work a few weeks ago with no issues.

$ dmesg | grep masked
[    4.554241] hpsa 0000:42:00.0: scsi 1:0:1:0: masked Direct-Access     ATA      SSD 2TB          PHYS DRV SSDSmartPathCap- En- Exp=0
[    4.568580] hpsa 0000:42:00.0: scsi 1:0:2:0: masked Direct-Access     ATA      SSD 2TB          PHYS DRV SSDSmartPathCap- En- Exp=0
[    4.583223] hpsa 0000:42:00.0: scsi 1:0:3:0: masked Direct-Access     ATA      SSD 2TB          PHYS DRV SSDSmartPathCap- En- Exp=0
[    4.597927] hpsa 0000:42:00.0: scsi 1:0:4:0: masked Direct-Access     ATA      SSD 2TB          PHYS DRV SSDSmartPathCap- En- Exp=0
[    4.612871] hpsa 0000:42:00.0: scsi 1:0:5:0: masked Enclosure         HP       MSA70            enclosure SSDSmartPathCap- En- Exp=0
[    4.628075] hpsa 0000:42:00.0: scsi 1:0:6:0: masked Enclosure         HP       P812 INT EXP     enclosure SSDSmartPathCap- En- Exp=0
[    4.643197] hpsa 0000:42:00.0: scsi 1:0:7:0: masked Enclosure         PMCSIERA  SRC 8x6G        enclosure SSDSmartPathCap- En- Exp=0

UPDATE

Tried clearing config on the drives, it won't let me. I can only imaging because the controller is in HBA mode so it thinks nothing to clear:

$ ssacli ctrl slot=4 physicaldrive 4E:1:5 modify clearconfigdata
Error: This operation is not supported with the current configuration. Use the 
       "show" command on devices to show additional details about the
       configuration.
       Reason: Not supported

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 18 '23 at 14:36

I ended up changing code bases to the one below:

https://github.com/99dimitris/hpsahba

It seems the original Git code to convert the card to HBA mode, the kernel driver must of had issues. By changing to that codebase above, re-doing my marking my controller as HBA, then re-installing the new DKMS driver with this package worked. After a reboot all my drives worked fine.

Seemed to be a driver issue with the previous codebase.

HP Smart Array P812 HBA mode Masked Drives

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