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Are birdhouse runs still worth doing after the Summer Sweep Up nerf?

So yew birdhouse XP got hit by 40%. I'm at 75 Hunter on an ironman and birdhouses have basically been my entire Hunter training method up to this point.

We still doing Birdhouses or is their a better method now?

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u/Suspicious_Fly_1838 — 16 hours ago

Unlimited vs Duo summer deal, worth it solo?

Duo is only like $30 more a year than Unlimited with the summer deal right now. Is there any actual reason to grab it if its just me? Nobody to give the second account to.

Anyone here running Duo by themselves or did you just stick with Unlimited?

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u/Suspicious_Fly_1838 — 2 months ago

Picked up some used Toshiba SAS drives from a Dell EMC SAN and can't reformat them every command fails, only INQUIRY works

Hey everyone, hoping someone here has dealt with this before.

I bought 10x Toshiba MG04SCA60EA 6TB SAS drives used. They came from a Dell EMC SAN the label shows customer part  number 58-100138-01 and "4kn". Firmware is 5703.                                                                                                                                                               
 I'm running them through an LSI SAS2308 HBA in IT mode on Unraid. The drives show up fine in sg_scan, INQUIRY works and returns full info (serial, LU name, etc.), but literally every other command fails with the same error:

Hardware Error, vendor specific ASC=c4, ASCQ=01

This includes MODE SENSE(6), MODE SENSE(10), SANITIZE, START STOP UNIT, and FORMAT UNIT sent directly via sg_raw. READ CAPACITY returns 0 blocks. sg_format can't even get past the MODE SENSE step.

I did a SCSI device reset with sg_reset which temporarily changed the error to "Unit Attention: Bus device reset function occurred". But the very next command goes straight back to ASC=c4.

 Interestingly, one drive from the same model and batch (different serial prefix) already had 4096 byte sectors and works perfectly in Unraid. So at least one of them was successfully reformatted at some point.

Is this EMC binding? Format in progress state? Is there a vendor specific SCSI command to unlock these? Has anyone successfully reformatted drives with this exact part number?

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u/Suspicious_Fly_1838 — 2 months ago

LSI SAS9223-8i in IR mode blocking Dell R730xd POST, can't get to UEFI shell to flash to IT mode

Hey all, been at this for far too many hours and need help.

Just installed an LSI SAS9223-8i into my Dell R730xd running Unraid. Card is in IR mode and I want to flash it to IT mode. The card is causing a UEFI0116 "Avago EFI SAS Driver unhealthy" error that completely halts POST, F1, F2, F11 do nothing on physical keyboard.

What I've tried so far:

  • Spamming F11 to get to Boot Manager (read it sometimes works)
  • Set all PCIe slots to Boot Driver Disabled in System BIOS
  • Disabled F1/F2 Prompt on Error in BIOS

Has anyone dealt with this on an R730xd? How did you get past it to flash the card?

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u/Suspicious_Fly_1838 — 2 months ago