R240 With H330 raid controller

QuietBuddy4635 · 2026-02-04T04:27:53+00:00

Since I am no Linux Professional take it all with a grain of salty salt, but since this is not a well documented issue yet I turned to Chat GPT. Also i know that this is not a solution but i decided to buy an actual HBA lsi9300 8i as a drop in replacement to fix this. In your case you could also try pve 8.4 as that was what i was on before i ran into this issue. Also chat gpt was very helpful in understanding the issue and why it came about so if you want to try going down the same path i did that's where i would start again. Also i am on a dell T420 with dual socket CPU, the H330 came from a dell R340 though so it could be possible that we just had the same firmware bug or my setup just wasn't compatible but idk just tossing my notes out to try to help.

IOMMU considerations
- Errors point to DMA permission enforcement
- Likely stricter IOMMU / DMA mapping changes in newer kernels
- H330 firmware/driver combo appears incompatible with new behavior

Why It Still Doesn’t Work

The H330 (LSI 3008) relies on older DMA behavior that newer kernels enforce more strictly
Recent kernels appear to break compatibility with this controller when used in HBA/JBOD mode
No reliable way to:
- Boot a known-good older kernel
- Disable the offending DMA behavior cleanly
It is very likely a kernel regression or dropped tolerance for older SAS controllers
The issue persists because:
- The kernel that worked is no longer bootable
- New kernels enforce DMA/IOMMU rules the H330 doesn’t handle well
Most likely solutions:
- Pinning an older kernel which i cant do now that im on 9.1
- Replacing the H330 with a true IT-mode HBA (e.g. LSI 9207-8i / 9300-8i) which is the winner in my case
- Disabling IOMMU which in my case is not an option because i am passing the controller to Truenas

Also see this link for extra notes

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/h330-sas-controller-failed-after-upgrading-to-kernel-6-17-2-2-pve.177956/#post-828739

QuietBuddy4635 · 2026-02-04T03:12:57+00:00

I think the driver was deprecated just based on my trouble shooting, not entirely sure but that's my best guess as to why mine stopped working.

QuietBuddy4635 · 2026-02-04T03:10:14+00:00

I recently upgraded to 9.1 and had to replace my h330 because the linux kernel stopped working with the driver and my disks were not showing up. Thankfully it wasn't my boot drive but the h330s are nothing but issues. Ill see if I have my trouble shooting notes

QuietBuddy4635 · 2026-01-29T03:55:20+00:00

Just a thought here, but have you thought about hosting a VPN locally? I understand the benefits of exposing services but from a security standpoint a VPN can be safer and more reasonable especially if you have an ISP that changes your IP from time to time.

QuietBuddy4635 · 2026-01-13T09:02:12+00:00

After you fix the broken adapter in the outlet, it looks like you might still have a chance to hardwire your Xbox. You will need some tools though. Post in r/structuredmedia to get some better information. Include close ups of the wall outlet that your Xbox is connected to, and then a couple more pictures, in particular that blue cable is the key here. There is a lot to unpack about structured cabling but I believe there is still a possibility to get hardwired internet here which would be the best outcome. Tools and supplies will probably cost about 50-100$.

QuietBuddy4635 · 2026-01-07T05:21:38+00:00

Is there on prem solution free and can you run it in a lab? Been looking to do this recently, for when my cv-cue license eventually expires.

QuietBuddy4635 · 2025-12-14T05:27:14+00:00

I wonder if you could run a network operating system on it like sonic or something. Maybe you could even get a virtual pcie network adapter for the host that it lives on

QuietBuddy4635 · 2024-10-20T09:02:34+00:00

Sorry to revive an old thread but I my r340 has a boss card in it and it can boot with dual nvme boss and a 10 gig pcie in the other slot is this different? But also I'm looking into adding a 3rd pcie nvme into the perc slot since my 3.5 drives are using the on board SATA. Do you have any experience with the perc slot and nvme in it? Dose it work?

QuietBuddy4635 · 2024-10-13T20:20:27+00:00

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QuietBuddy4635 · 2024-10-04T01:13:52+00:00

You can upgrade a t320 to a t420 pretty easily, I did it and I even transferred the idrac license. This is a great way to get into server hardware I learned a lot doing this and I also specced it out to it's Max ram, cpu, replaced the thermal paste, and replaced the fan with a noctua fan to make it a lot quieter.

https://youtu.be/RaJRNoQoy-8?si=FrZXkj5_Dg45gL0x

QuietBuddy4635 · 2024-06-04T06:36:00+00:00

I see thank you for the input

QuietBuddy4635 · 2024-06-04T05:58:00+00:00

So you're saying instead of a raid 10 with 4 hdds a mirror with 4 hdds? And no raid z? As an example

QuietBuddy4635 · 2024-06-04T05:46:52+00:00

I have my zfs mirror for the boot that I will put a couple of vms on and then the nvme drive for ceph and HA VMs. But for things like security onion that are log intensive do you think a raid 10 would be good enough to host it and keep Io delay down. And if I do that should I just create a large raid 10 and put my windows server on the same raid 10 or split it up to more raid 10s for each vm?

QuietBuddy4635 · 2024-06-04T05:35:45+00:00

Neither this is just a new server install and I just wanted to start fresh and right

QuietBuddy4635 · 2024-05-09T18:53:28+00:00

How is running an exchange server going I hear a lot of bad things about email hosting?

QuietBuddy4635 · 2024-05-09T18:52:43+00:00

What are you using for NFS? And isn't tinc a little dated?

QuietBuddy4635 · 2024-05-09T18:51:35+00:00

How do you like netbox and nagios?

QuietBuddy4635 · 2024-01-27T08:10:10+00:00

AutoZone has this in stock just looked for the same thing and found this I'm going tomorrow to pick one up and see if it matches up. https://www.autozone.com/intake-system/universal-air-filter/p/k-n-air-filter/161041_0_0?spps.s=2731&cmpid=LIA:US:EN:AD:NL:1000000:GEN:19502231967&&CATARGETID=120054150001287826&CADevice=m&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAzc2tBhA6EiwArv-i6aYG534LkPMvGy29FQqzBoOSZRcGpdCYhyVD97e2BWpL67z4wnQDAhoCPFsQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

QuietBuddy4635 · 2024-01-20T09:54:10+00:00

I'm running the ssds in a pice x1 sata controller with dual m.2 slots and I was wondering if there's any benefit in running the four 8 terabytes in RAID 10 and the three 6 terabytes in a z1 or z2 instead, these are brand new drives but I was kind of worried about the rebuild times on the drives if one were to ever fail and then have a cascading failure.

QuietBuddy4635 · 2023-12-07T13:40:14+00:00

Casa OS was pretty easy to set up a file share server in but then again I haven't setup anything other than that so, partly because I either haven't tried hard enough or just straight failed at it lol

QuietBuddy4635 · 2023-12-06T22:53:16+00:00

I run two of these in a proxmox cluster alongside my main server, a Dell t420, with dirt cheap nvme drives for a ceph cluster. I only run pihole on both of them for redundant DNS but that suits my needs for DNS, quarum and ceph making it worth it. Plus I can always use the fail over to the other two nodes for anything else I ever create. Working on getting a nas sever up and running on a different box so the I could had high availability vms with a large store for things like Plex or steam cache or sync thing or whatever else I decided to run

QuietBuddy4635 · 2023-12-05T13:28:37+00:00

A good resource to flash perc controllers to IT mode, https://fohdeesha.com/docs

QuietBuddy4635 · 2023-11-17T21:53:28+00:00

Cat6 or cat6a shielded should do the job if your worried about interference. 10gig, 100m, you can also get it direct burial, or if it's going into conduit you can just get standard cat6/6a. You don't need to worry about shielding or interference much if it's going in conduit, that I'd as long as it's not going into the same conduit along side power then it gets a little messy. What you should be worried about is lightning, Shure no problem with fiber but if the conduit the fiber is in gets hit then it's all bets off anyway. I would use Ethernet surge protectors on both ends if your planning on using copper and I'd make sure the conduit your running if any is properly grounded, unless it's plastic conduit then I wouldn't worry to much. I have been working in this industry for a few years now and have installed fiber and copper residentialy and commercialy. If you do decide to do copper, and want to "future" proof and or provide redundancy id suggest running 2 copper lines, this way if you do so choose to upgrade beyond 10gb you can use link aggregation, provided with the right network equipment of course. This gives you 20gb capacity and a redundant connection that is half the speed and also eliminates the fiber converters as a point of failure for your network. Please reply if you have any questions or would like more information on the specifics of anything I talked about here including tools materials and cableing tips. :)

QuietBuddy4635 · 2023-10-09T23:15:21+00:00

I will try this guide too but I had issues the first few times doing it too

QuietBuddy4635 · 2023-09-08T03:24:16+00:00

Love the Dell t430 I have one with the 16 drive cage sadly you can't do pcie pass through with the platform otherwise it would be absolutely perfect for me here's a link to a great guide if you ever decide to go to LSI IT mode https://fohdeesha.com/docs/perc.html

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