Hey all, weird issue i’ve run into with 6 of these Samsung Enterprise SSDs. I have installed in a Dell PE R710 and have replaced the controller with a H200 HBA in IT Mode. In the controller BIOS it sees all 6 drives fine, but after installing Proxmox none of the drives show up in the GUI. If i run LSBLK it shows all 6 of the SSD drives but all 6 show a capacity of 0 Bytes. If I run FDISK -L it doesn’t show any of the SSDs. Anyone have any idea why the HBA isn’t passing these disks through to the OS the way it’s supposed to?
EDIT: For clarification Proxmox is installed on 2 mirrored SAS HDDs connected to the same controller that show up in Proxmox just fine. I should have noticed something was off when none of the SSDs showed up in the installer as candidates for the OS install.
EDIT 2: So to add to the weirdness, when I run LSHW on the host it does list the drives, but it shows ‘logicalsectorsize=512’ and ‘sectorsize=8320’. The 2 HDDs the host OS is installed on both have matching logicalsector and sector sizes.
I’ve run these after rebooting the server and entering the H200 BIOS and formatted all 6 of the SSDs. It’s so strange that Proxmox is reading the physical sector size as 8320 bytes. I don’t know enough about storage and sectors and such to know if that’s why the disks are unusable or if it’s just coincidence.
