Bug? Or me? Intial setup on SCSI drives

[MAiN_PRoToCoL]

Hey there.

Got an old poweredge 2300. Dual Pentium III 550, 1.5 GB of RAM, using onboard adaptec SCSI 2 ultra controller, connected to a 1x6 backplane, intel gig NIC. A beast of a machine :p !

But booting up lastest freeNAS CD, the initial setup doesn't pick up my 4, scsi ultra 2, 18 GB hard drives. I get looped around when hitting install.

But the same CD, hardware, and initial setup would pick up a scsi 320 146 GB drive when I pop one in. Even stranger, if I install freeNAS on the 146GB, after setup it would show me my 18gb drives.

What gives? is it me? a bug? and thanks!

 

[dlavigne]

1.5 GB of RAM

It's a wonder the system even booted.

 

[MAiN_PRoToCoL]

lol don't hate.

Once it was installed on the 146GB, it was working real fine. GUI/web server was aight. activated my cifs and this n that. not bad.

 

[Ericloewe]

Dual Pentium III? I hope you weren't planning on doing anything remotely useful.

 

[cyberjock]

If you don't meet the minimum requirements per the hardware requirements section of the FreeNAS manual you can expect unexplained behavioral problems. Please see the manual and upgrade your system.

 

[danb35]

Your system doesn't even come close to meeting the minimum hardware specs. I've had one of those, and it is a beast, but it should be relegated to something much less memory-intensive than a FreeNAS installation. FreeNAS is also designed to boot from a ~ 2 GB flash device--by installing on a spinning disk, you've made that disk unusable for storage.

 

[Ericloewe]

Your system doesn't even come close to meeting the minimum hardware specs. I've had one of those, and it is a beast, but it should be relegated to something much less memory-intensive than a FreeNAS installation. FreeNAS is also designed to boot from a ~ 2 GB flash device--by installing on a spinning disk, you've made that disk unusable for storage.

I'm sorry, but these days a Pentium III-based system cannot be called a beast. I doubt it's useful for anything other than "Let's see if we can get this to run..." projects. I'd bet that my phone is faster than two Pentium IIIs, especially at 550MHz.

 

[danb35]

I was thinking of "beast" more in terms of size, weight, and noise. You're right--in terms of computing power, it's a decade or so out of date.

 

[Ericloewe]

I was thinking of "beast" more in terms of size, weight, and noise. You're right--in terms of computing power, it's a decade or so out of date.

That I can imagine...

 

[MAiN_PRoToCoL]

Gosh, a lot of system requirement preachers in here that don't have a real clue about the FreeNas' or FreeBSD's requirements lollol.

I have some new findings and experiments to do. I'll be back and report on them. More and more is seeming like a bug.

 

[cyberjock]

You don't get it do you? If you have less than 8GB of RAM FreeNAS behaves very erratically. People have been unable to create pools, unable to access the WebGUI, had random kernel panics, etc.

So no, YOU don't know FreeNAS's requirements. I do however know the requirements... because I wrote them!

I'm also locking this thread as there is nothing further to be gained from this thread. The point has been made and we don't need more discussion on a topic that is covered daily.