Dell PE2950 support

[mballou]

FreeNAS 8.0.1 RC is not seeing any of my drives to create a volume. I'm running a Dell PE 2950 with 6 1TB SATA drives. I originally had 8.0.0 running ok, but it would only see the drives if I create a RAID using the Dell BIOS. Now that I upgraded to 8.0.1 RC, it doesn't see the drives from the RAID, or as single SATA drives.

any suggestions?

 

[mballou]

I take it back now. Something must have gone wrong during the upgrade, because it wouldn't see the drive. I reinstalled FreeNAS without upgrading, and now it sees the single RAID drive I created in the Dell BIOS.

Any reason the SATA drives are not seen individually when they are not configured in the Dell RAID?

 

[matthewowen01]

it's the Dell RAID card's responsibility to pass those off. you should read up on the card and how to configure it.

 

[louisk]

If you want to use the PERC and have individual drives show up, probably the easiest way is it create a bunch of RAID0 single spindle volumes. I've been running with this type of config for quite a while. Works fine.

 

[mballou]

Thanks guys. I originally had it configured as a bunch of RAID 0 drives, and that was working with 8.0. Something during the upgrade from 8.0 to 8.0.1 RC must have caused a problem. To get the drives to show up again, I reinstalled FreeNAS without keeping the configuration and everything was good again.