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      dlucas46 @stephenw10
      last edited by dlucas46

      @stephenw10 said in pfSense on Watchguard M370:

      CAM errors like that are almost always a bad drive or drive controller. Do you have the exact error you were seeing?

      It's during the installer stage.

      Everything installs fine with the original 16gb.

      Anyway of capturing the installer data or do I need to manually write it down else where?

      But from what I recall you choose zfs auto and it immediately says operation not permitted.

      When you try and create a ufs system the drive spews these ATA timeout cam errors.

      I booted system rescue cd over serial and ran smartmon tools and they pass the drive after a health check.

      I agree that errors like this are normally a bad drive, just wondering if the msata port has a max drive limit?

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        I'm not aware of a limit. 256GB isn't especially large.

        Can you not copy/paste the error from the terminal during the install? Or grab a screenshot?

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          dlucas46 @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10 said in pfSense on Watchguard M370:

          I'm not aware of a limit. 256GB isn't especially large.

          Can you not copy/paste the error from the terminal during the install? Or grab a screenshot?

          Possibly but the screen rolls the error and returns to the installer screen.

          I can definitely get the data from smartmon tools.

          I have just ordered an 120gb msata and another 2.5 120gb ssd.

          That will give me enough new parts to test with.

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            dlucas46 @stephenw10
            last edited by dlucas46

            @stephenw10 said in pfSense on Watchguard M370:

            I'm not aware of a limit. 256GB isn't especially large.

            Can you not copy/paste the error from the terminal during the install? Or grab a screenshot?

            Ok terminal errors:

            
            
            ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): CAM status: ATA Status Error
            (ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): ATA status: 00 ()
            (ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): RES: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
            (ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): Error 5, Retries exhausted
            Input/output error
             GPT boot partition write failed 
            
            gpart: Input/output error
            
            (ada0:ahcich1:0:0x Initializ Input/output error (ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 61 10 40 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00u   wait.   
            (ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): CAM status: Auto-Sense Retrieval Failed
            (ada0:ahcich1:0:0:0): Error 5, Unretryable error
            
            
            Smartmon Tools output 
            
            === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
            Device Model:     SAMSUNG SSD SM841 SED mSATA 256GB
            LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 500000000
            Firmware Version: DXM44D6Q
            User Capacity:    256,060,514,304 bytes [256 GB]
            Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
            Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
            TRIM Command:     Available, deterministic, zeroed
            Device is:        Not in smartctl database 7.3/5528
            ATA Version is:   ACS-2, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4c
            SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
            Local Time is:    Wed Mar 27 16:32:08 2024 UTC
            SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
            SMART support is: Enabled
            AAM feature is:   Unavailable
            APM feature is:   Unavailable
            Rd look-ahead is: Enabled
            Write cache is:   Enabled
            DSN feature is:   Unavailable
            ATA Security is:  Unavailable
            Wt Cache Reorder: Enabled
            
            === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
            SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
            
            General SMART Values:
            Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                                                    was never started.
                                                    Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
            Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                                    without error or no self-test has ever
                                                    been run.
            Total time to complete Offline
            data collection:                (53956) seconds.
            Offline data collection
            capabilities:                    (0x53) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                                    Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                                                    Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                                    command.
                                                    No Offline surface scan supported.
                                                    Self-test supported.
                                                    No Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                                    Selective Self-test supported.
            SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                                    power-saving mode.
                                                    Supports SMART auto save timer.
            Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                                    General Purpose Logging supported.
            Short self-test routine
            recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
            Extended self-test routine
            recommended polling time:        (  20) minutes.
            SCT capabilities:              (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
                                                    SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
                                                    SCT Feature Control supported.
                                                    SCT Data Table supported.
            
            SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
            Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
            ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAGS    VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
              5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   PO--CK   100   100   010    -    0
             12 Power_Cycle_Count       -O--CK   098   098   000    -    1571
            175 Program_Fail_Count_Chip -O--CK   100   100   010    -    0
            176 Erase_Fail_Count_Chip   -O--CK   100   100   010    -    0
            177 Wear_Leveling_Count     PO--C-   088   088   005    -    420
            178 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Chip  PO--C-   100   100   010    -    0
            179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot   PO--C-   100   100   010    -    0
            180 Unused_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot PO--C-   100   100   010    -    9152
            181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total  -O--CK   100   100   010    -    0
            182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total  -O--CK   100   100   010    -    0
            187 Reported_Uncorrect      -O--CK   100   100   000    -    0
            195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  -O-RC-   200   200   000    -    0
            241 Total_LBAs_Written      -O--CK   099   099   000    -    17757354518
            242 Total_LBAs_Read         -O--CK   099   099   000    -    53456616621
                                        ||||||_ K auto-keep
                                        |||||__ C event count
                                        ||||___ R error rate
                                        |||____ S speed/performance
                                        ||_____ O updated online
                                        |______ P prefailure warning
            
            General Purpose Log Directory Version 1
            SMART           Log Directory Version 1 [multi-sector log support]
            Address    Access  R/W   Size  Description
            0x00       GPL,SL  R/O      1  Log Directory
            0x01       GPL,SL  R/O      1  Summary SMART error log
            0x02       GPL,SL  R/O      1  Comprehensive SMART error log
            0x03       GPL,SL  R/O      1  Ext. Comprehensive SMART error log
            0x06       GPL,SL  R/O      1  SMART self-test log
            0x07       GPL,SL  R/O      1  Extended self-test log
            0x09       GPL,SL  R/W      1  Selective self-test log
            0x10       GPL,SL  R/O      1  NCQ Command Error log
            0x11       GPL,SL  R/O      1  SATA Phy Event Counters log
            0x30       GPL,SL  R/O      1  IDENTIFY DEVICE data log
            0x80-0x9f  GPL,SL  R/W     16  Host vendor specific log
            0xa0       GPL,SL  VS      16  Device vendor specific log
            
            SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
            No Errors Logged
            
            SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
            Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
            # 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      6100         -
            
            SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
             SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
                1        0        0  Not_testing
                2        0        0  Not_testing
                3        0        0  Not_testing
                4        0        0  Not_testing
                5        0        0  Not_testing
              255        0    65535  Read_scanning was never started
            Selective self-test flags (0x0):
              After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
            If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
            
            SCT Status Version:                  3
            SCT Version (vendor specific):       256 (0x0100)
            Device State:                        SCT command executing in background (5)
            Current Temperature:                    40 Celsius
            Power Cycle Min/Max Temperature:     40/40 Celsius
            Lifetime    Min/Max Temperature:      0/70 Celsius
            Under/Over Temperature Limit Count:   0/0
            
            SCT Temperature History Version:     3 (Unknown, should be 2)
            Temperature Sampling Period:         1 minute
            Temperature Logging Interval:        1 minute
            Min/Max recommended Temperature:      0/70 Celsius
            Min/Max Temperature Limit:            0/70 Celsius
            Temperature History Size (Index):    128 (0)
            
            Index    Estimated Time   Temperature Celsius
               1    2024-03-27 14:25     ?  -
             ...    ..(125 skipped).    ..  -
             127    2024-03-27 16:31     ?  -
               0    2024-03-27 16:32    40  *********************
            
            SCT Error Recovery Control:
                       Read: Disabled
                      Write: Disabled
            
            Device Statistics (GP/SMART Log 0x04) not supported
            
            Pending Defects log (GP Log 0x0c) not supported
            
            SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11)
            ID      Size     Value  Description
            0x0001  2            0  Command failed due to ICRC error
            0x0002  2            0  R_ERR response for data FIS
            0x0003  2            0  R_ERR response for device-to-host data FIS
            0x0004  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS
            0x0005  2            0  R_ERR response for non-data FIS
            0x0006  2            0  R_ERR response for device-to-host non-data FIS
            0x0007  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device non-data FIS
            0x0008  2            0  Device-to-host non-data FIS retries
            0x0009  2            2  Transition from drive PhyRdy to drive PhyNRdy
            0x000a  2            2  Device-to-host register FISes sent due to a COMRESET
            0x000b  2            0  CRC errors within host-to-device FIS
            0x000d  2            0  Non-CRC errors within host-to-device FIS
            0x000f  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS, CRC
            0x0010  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS, non-CRC
            0x0012  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device non-data FIS, CRC
            0x0013  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device non-data FIS, non-CRC
            
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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              Hmm, that error sure looks like a bad drive. But it could be some low level compatibility issue with the drive controller.

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                dlucas46 @stephenw10
                last edited by dlucas46

                @stephenw10 said in pfSense on Watchguard M370:

                Hmm, that error sure looks like a bad drive. But it could be some low level compatibility issue with the drive controller.

                I have ordered a brand new 120GB MSATA and a 120GB 2.5" SSD.
                As both of the MSATA drives I have tried are second hand I have no history and can only go by the data.

                Odd thing that the smart data says healthy but I have seen a nearly dead drive reported as good before, so I always take the results it gives with a pinch of salt.

                If I had an MSATA adapter I could try testing the drive on another machine but the M370 is the only MSATA device I have.

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  Mmm, I've got an m.2 SATA drive here that behaves similarly. It usually allows an install but throws errors continually. Shows as good in tests, though with a lot of ware. I wouldn't trust it with anything vaguely important! Odd to see the same on two drives though.

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                    dlucas46 @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10

                    The other one was showing errors about read write and invalid geometry and invalid primary GPT using secondary. Even writing DD zeros to it produced errors.

                    Unfortunately I can not test that one anymore as I no longer have it to test.

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                      it.adminpmaria @HangmansNoose001380
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                      @HangmansNoose001380 Can you DM me the BIOS-File?.

                      BigThx

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                        kapook00789
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                        Can anyone DM me the unlock password bios please?

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                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                          Sent.

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                            it.adminpmaria @kapook00789
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                            @kapook00789 Me too! TNX!

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                              it.adminpmaria @Mookatroid
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                              @Mookatroid Can you please send me the password?

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                                djstrauss @stephenw10
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                                @stephenw10 hi, just to confirm the correct one is in /post/1067389 ? Thank

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                                  Mookatroid @it.adminpmaria
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                                    VioletDragon @networkBob
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                                    @networkBob Can’t really find much on the board, can you see a header to clear BIOS Password ? If not you would require to re-program the BIOS chip, I’ve done quite a few on Security Appliances and Laptops.

                                    Regards.

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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                      I think you may be replying to an old post there. 😉

                                      Most of that has been solved or at least understood at this point.

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                                        VioletDragon @stephenw10
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                                        @stephenw10 My bad. Sorry about that, I saw the post on a email notification so thought I’d chime in.

                                        Regards.

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                                          it.adminpmaria
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                                          Thanks everyone for the info! I realized leter that the PS was on that image. jejejje
                                          Another question. It make sense to use SATA port with a SSD instead the MSATA? I saw that we can disable the MSATA PORT, so we can test on the SSD without buying another disk or removing the original.

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                            Yes, if you have a spare SSD or mSATA drive you can just swap it in and retain the original driver and OS.

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