4Kn drives don't show in OMV

I have a problem with SAS 4kn (native) harddrives, connected to my server via a SAS controller.

The controller can see the HD and it reports correct size 3.7 TB but after booting, in OMV/Debian the drive does not show up at all.

The drives are 4TB Seagate drives, type  ST4000NM014

The SAS controller is a HP (725904-001) 9217-4i4e-HP - FH PCIe-x8 RAID Controller running in IT-mode (HBA).

The controller also has 2 'normal' SAS drives attached and they work well under OMV.

Is there anything I need to install to make 4Kn drives work?

>> my parted --list output:

# SATA drive (not scsi)

Model: ATA TOSHIBA DT01ACA0 (scsi)

Disk /dev/sda: 500GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B

Partition Table: loop

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Flags

1 0.00B 500GB 500GB btrfs

# SATA drive (not scsi)

Model: ATA ST3000VN007-2E41 (scsi)

Disk /dev/sdb: 3001GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B

Partition Table: gpt

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 17.4kB 3001GB 3001GB ntfs msftdata

# SATA SSD

Model: ATA Corsair Force GT (scsi)

Disk /dev/sdc: 60.0GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: msdos

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags

1 1049kB 59.0GB 59.0GB primary ext4 boot

2 59.0GB 60.0GB 1022MB extended

5 59.0GB 60.0GB 1022MB logical linux-swap(v1)

# 'normal SAS drive, non 4Kn

Model: SEAGATE ST330006CLAR3000 (scsi)

Disk /dev/sdd: 3001GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 1049kB 3001GB 3001GB ext4

# 'normal SAS drive, non 4Kn

Model: SEAGATE ST33000650SS (scsi)

Disk /dev/sde: 3001GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 1049kB 3001GB 3001GB ext4

Kernel 6.1.0-0.deb11.7-amd64

Here it seems to see 3 disks

root@T110:~# sudo dmesg | grep -A3 'Attached SCSI'
[    1.745168] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
[    1.779150] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[    1.780872] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=8087, idProduct=0024, bcdDevice= 0.00
[    1.780880] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[    1.781469] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
--
[    1.803448] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[    2.084472] usb 2-1.5: new low-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
[    2.199252] usb 2-1.5: New USB device found, idVendor=1c4f, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 3.30
[    2.199260] usb 2-1.5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
--
[   10.535921] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk
[   10.551374]  sdd: sdd1
[   10.551464] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
[   10.558765]  sde: sde1
[   10.558827] sd 0:0:1:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk
[   10.780442] raid6: sse2x4   gen() 16702 MB/s
[   10.848441] raid6: sse2x2   gen() 17768 MB/s
[   10.916440] raid6: sse2x1   gen() 14077 MB/s

Its a common SAS controller based on the LSI 2308 chip which has widely been reported as supporting 4Kn drives.

The controller has nothing to setup and the other SAS drives work well. The 4Kn drive shows up there in the list without any issues, even shows the right size 3.7TB so the controller knows about the 4096 sector size. Other SAS controllers I tried did not show the correct disk size as they did not support 4K sectors.

I will check the firmware. Maybe i need to tweak that.

thanks