AOC-SAS3-9300-16E on Freenas

[Mateus Bapista]

Hey guys

I want to know if this HBA is compatible with freenas 9.2.1

thanks

 

[cyberjock]

Have you asked Supermicro? Have you checked the FreeBSD 9.2 hardware compatibility list?

I'd expect that either one would tell you if it is supported or not. ;)

 

[Mateus Bapista]

I checked the Freebsd 9.2 hardware compatibility list but I have not found,
and I thought the supermicro won't certified hardware for freebsd.

I will call for supermicro's support and register the information here if anyone wants to know.

Thanks

 

[cyberjock]

Well, I don't know much about that specific card, but all of the SAS3 hardware we see in the forums uses drivers that are extremely unreliable and are basically "alpha" grade. So if I were a betting man I'd say your chances of being able to use that hardware is about 0%.

 

[Mateus Bapista]

I found this bug request : https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/4779

what you think about @cyberjock ?

 

[cyberjock]

Yeah.. that's the alpha driver.. look around the bug system and you'll see Josh Paetzel (I think it was him) say that he added an update, but he was classifying the driver as "pre-pre-alpha".

 

[Mateus Bapista]

Ok thanks @cyberjock

 

[viniciusferrao]

I don't think it's a good ideia to use this card on FreeNAS 9.3 and not even on FreeNAS 10 (when it will be available).

Looking at the FreeBSD HCL we can only see the LSI 3000 series supported on FreeBSD 11, which is in development stage as today.

https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/article.html#disk

And this card requires the mpr kernel module to run, which is unavailable on FreeBSD 9 and FreeBSD 10.

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mpr&sektion=4

I would consider a common SAS2 card instead.


EDIT: It appears that the mpr module is available on FreeBSD 9.3, which FreeNAS 9.3.1 is based. The HCL appears to be divergent on this driver.

Code:

The mpr driver first appeared in FreeBSD 9.3.