Problem installing a 4 TB Hitachi in Freebsd 11.2

If the disk was previously used as part of a RAID volume there may still be some metadata on the disk. Look for things like "foreign" configs, these are part of the old metadata. Clear those. Make sure the controller detects the disk as "Unconfigured Good". This means it's "clean" and ready to be configured. If the controller has any RAID functionality but you're not using it configure the disk (or the whole controller) for JBOD.
 
mrredeyeflight said:
It looks like the 4 TB hard disk to too big for the computer. It only can use up to a 3 TB hard drive. I will look into getting a updated Hard disk controller? I will try to contact Dell and see if they have updated Hard disk controllers?
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Most Dell PERC controllers are just relabeled LSI (now Broadcom) controllers. The PERC H310 is based on the LSISAS2008 chipset. The upper limit for SAS 1 is 2TB. This card is SAS2 and supports disks above 2TB. As far as I know a 3TB limit doesn't exist anywhere.

I have a LSISAS2308 based card with 4 * 3TB drives and it's been running for quite some time (the volume is now 99% full, I really need to expand). As far as I know the difference between SAS2008 and SAS2308 is the PCIe version and the maximum number of devices.

Code: 
root@molly:~ # mpsutil show adapter
mps0 Adapter:
       Board Name: SAS9207-8i
   Board Assembly: H3-25412-00K
        Chip Name: LSISAS2308
    Chip Revision: ALL
    BIOS Revision: 7.39.00.00
Firmware Revision: 20.00.02.00
  Integrated RAID: no

PhyNum  CtlrHandle  DevHandle  Disabled  Speed   Min    Max    Device
0       0001        0009       N         6.0     1.5    6.0    SAS Initiator
1       0002        000a       N         6.0     1.5    6.0    SAS Initiator
2       0003        000b       N         6.0     1.5    6.0    SAS Initiator
3       0004        000c       N         6.0     1.5    6.0    SAS Initiator
4       0005        000d       N         6.0     1.5    6.0    SAS Initiator
5       0006        000e       N         6.0     1.5    6.0    SAS Initiator
6       0007        000f       N         6.0     1.5    6.0    SAS Initiator
7                              N                 1.5    6.0    SAS Initiator
Code: 
root@molly:~ # zpool status storage
  pool: storage
 state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 1 days 12:36:51 with 0 errors on Thu Oct 19 13:48:52 2017
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        storage     ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz1-0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            da1     ONLINE       0     0     0
            da0     ONLINE       0     0     0
            da2     ONLINE       0     0     0
            da3     ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors
Code: 
root@molly:~ # smartctl -i /dev/da0
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF)
Device Model:     ST3000DM001-1ER166
Serial Number:    Z500D2BQ
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0794803f3
Firmware Version: CC25
User Capacity:    3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Form Factor:      3.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2, ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Wed Mar  6 14:05:36 2019 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

If I had the money to spend I would have replaced the 3TB disks with 4 or 6 TB ones a long time ago (I don't have space for additional disks).
 
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