Hi there,
First off, just wanted to say how much I have enjoyed using Freenas over the last few months. Coming from QNAP and Netgear it is so amazing to see the difference and the potential here.
As I am fairly new I have been tinkering with various pieces of hardware I have available to me from my time in IT.
I have recently added a new HBA Card which is a "NetApp Quad Port SAS Controller Card PM8003 111-00341+B1".
Now I have done a few days of searching and reading without any luck so I have decided to post.
When I plug in the card into my system, which is an IBM x3850 X5 the boot process hangs at the following screen (note I have run boot in verbose mode).
So I am thinking it is an issue with the card as most posts indicate. However I decided to try a vanilla install of FreeBSD and it works fine, i.e. it boots past this point and once booted I am able to see the SAS drives that are attached to the card.
I have tried many different variations and options such as having nothing attached to the card, using a different PCI slot and even changing the PCI slot options.
I was just wondering can anyone help with this, to me if it didn't work in FreeBSD then I would have moved on. It just seems odd it works with native FreeBSD and not Freenas.
Not I have upgraded to version Freenas 12 to see if that would make a difference and it does not. It gets stuck in the same position.
Thanks!
James
First off, just wanted to say how much I have enjoyed using Freenas over the last few months. Coming from QNAP and Netgear it is so amazing to see the difference and the potential here.
As I am fairly new I have been tinkering with various pieces of hardware I have available to me from my time in IT.
I have recently added a new HBA Card which is a "NetApp Quad Port SAS Controller Card PM8003 111-00341+B1".
Now I have done a few days of searching and reading without any luck so I have decided to post.
When I plug in the card into my system, which is an IBM x3850 X5 the boot process hangs at the following screen (note I have run boot in verbose mode).
So I am thinking it is an issue with the card as most posts indicate. However I decided to try a vanilla install of FreeBSD and it works fine, i.e. it boots past this point and once booted I am able to see the SAS drives that are attached to the card.
I have tried many different variations and options such as having nothing attached to the card, using a different PCI slot and even changing the PCI slot options.
I was just wondering can anyone help with this, to me if it didn't work in FreeBSD then I would have moved on. It just seems odd it works with native FreeBSD and not Freenas.
Not I have upgraded to version Freenas 12 to see if that would make a difference and it does not. It gets stuck in the same position.
Thanks!
James
