Adaptec 6805 driver issue - Shutdown

[Gernash]

I have an Adaptec 6905e and I have tried it in Freenas 8. It is not natively supported so I did the following

mount -uw /

copied the aacu64.ko(from the adaptec website) into /boot/kernel
manualy editited the /boot/loader.conf and added

aacu64_load=”YES”

I set the HDDs as JBOD and they appear in the HDD list and the ZFS raid works normally.

The issue I have is when you shutdown the NAS displays:

exiting on signal 10
<other stuff>
All buffers synced.
Uptime: XX XX XX

Then it just sits there, dosen't unload the driver and does not power off

I have tried adding the driver through the web gui “the new loader page”, with the same result.
***Had to be added in the web GUI as the Freenas gui update resets the loader.conf and resets the kernel folder***
also I have the the driver in the /boot/modules folder

NOTE: if you load the driver manually i.e.

kldload -v aacu64.ko

the SAS controllor functions normally, shows the drives and shutsdown gracefully.

Can anyone explain the correct way to install a 3rd party drive to install in Freenas 8, or how I can add the kldload command to a pre int as per Freens 7?



<Holding in the powerbutton on the NAS to shut it down makes me sad>

 

[Gernash]

Issue resolved

Latest Build FreeNAS-8.0.3-RELEASE-p1-x64.GUI_Upgrade
Adaptec 6805 Function normally and now shuts down without hang.

Very Happy with the card


dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp.dat bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 314.358787 secs (341565710 bytes/sec)

dd if=tmp.dat of=/dev/null bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 153.409149 secs (699920331 bytes/sec)

Sustained 90Mb/s to/from nas

 

[Gernash]

ACPI Power button hang

Didn't check everything, sigh. ACPI Shut-down via power button doesn't work (card hang on shut-down as per initial posting)

Oh well, I assume this will be just a build related issue with Freenas and will be resolved in a future release (fingers crossed).

If anyone knows of a workaround or fix/hack I'd be interested in trying it.

 

[francois13e]

Exact same problem here on Adaptec 5805...

 

[William Grzybowski]

Thanks for the info but I have to confess it is not much useful. You should be telling to to Adaptec, not us, so they can fix it.

 

[Agent1]

Wasn't this fixed in the last release?

 

[cyberjock]

Will, why did you respond to a thread that is 8 months old? You okay bro? LOL. Usually you are the one asking why someone replied to a dead thread.