AsRock C2750D4I users

[PhilZJ81]

I currently have an AsRock C2750D4I board and i'm using FreeNAS-9.10.1-U4

I was wondering how long and how reliable you have found these boards to be. How many hard drives do you have connected to it?

I recently looked around in the board's firmware under logs and I see constant logs being written
AMID05099E066BE /USR/SBIN/CRON[16550]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)
2 Oct 6 21:52:02 AMID05099E066BE /USR/SBIN/CRON[16555]: (sysadmin) CMD (/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf)
3 Oct 6 21:52:03 AMID05099E066BE /USR/SBIN/CRON[16551]: (CRON) error (grandchild #16555 failed with exit status 1)
4 Oct 6 21:52:03 AMID05099E066BE /USR/SBIN/CRON[16551]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)
5 Oct 6 21:53:02 AMID05099E066BE /USR/SBIN/CRON[16680]: (sysadmin) CMD (echo "2" > /var/cache/samba/unexpected.tdb)
6 Oct 6 21:53:02 AMID05099E066BE /USR/SBIN/CRON[16676]: (CRON) error (grandchild #16680 failed with exit status 1)
7 Oct 6 21:53:02


Granted this is just should that be of concern?

I'm aware of this thread https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...0-d4i-boards-by-disabling-the-watchdog.46968/
and I do have the 0.30 update on my box.

Thanks for your feedback.
-Phil

 

[Ericloewe]

I'm aware of this thread https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...0-d4i-boards-by-disabling-the-watchdog.46968/

That's the least of it. All pre-2017 C2000 boards are on borrowed time due to a hardware issue in the SoC. There are several threads on the forums about the matter.

 

[PhilZJ81]

That's the least of it. All pre-2017 C2000 boards are on borrowed time due to a hardware issue in the SoC. There are several threads on the forums about the matter.

Well that's not really what I wanted to hear.

So best bet would be to buy another board (i3 based chip probably) move all my hardware to it and hope it all boots nicely?
I'm assuming that since FreeNAS is on a USB, if the new board has at least 7 Sata ports, I could connect the drives in the same order and it'll bootup, right? I have a 6x ZFS array and 1 single drive currently hooked up to my board

 

[Ericloewe]

No, best bet is to contact ASRock and have them replace the board, ideally with an advance RMA.

m assuming that since FreeNAS is on a USB

USB has nothing to do with it, but yes, the OS is separate from your data, as is the case for any vaguely-functional storage system.

I could connect the drives in the same order

Any concept of ordering is irrelevant (not to mention that it would not translate across motherboard models). Any remotely usable RAID solution will not give a damn about which drive is in what slot. Not even Intel FakeRAID, which you can even move between systems and everything just works. ZFS is superior in every way to Intel's PCH FakeRAID options and, as such, doesn't care either.

 

[PhilZJ81]

No, best bet is to contact ASRock and have them replace the board, ideally with an advance RMA.

Will they replace a working board?

 

[brando56894]

Most likely. I had sold mine on ebay when it died before everyone realized this was an issue with all of them.

 

[Ericloewe]

Good question. If they're smart, they'll get it over with now since it's inevitable.

 

[PhilZJ81]

Well, it was wroth a try...

"If there is no issue with the board, then it would be difficult to ascertain whether the board is being affected by this issue. Additionally, Intel didn’t guarantee every C2000 chip would have this issue. We have also extended the warranty for this particular issue, so if the issue does manifest itself in the future we will definitely replace it. "