billgreenwood
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Support at Supermicro this evening replied to my email and confirmed that P20 is the latest firmware version.
Why on earth did they create a P21 driver when there is no P21 firmware?
Can we just backlevel the driver to the P20 version instead of either (a) having mismatched driver versions (but without the warning message) or (b) reverting to the previous version of FreeNAS?
A number of manufacturers don't produce drivers that work well (or not at all) with FreeBSD, it's theThis might be a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway as this always seems to pop up as an issue :D
FreeNAS works with many different motherboards, processors, disk drives, etc. so why can't it accommodate a number of different SATA/SAS cards?
What's so special here?
Thanks CJ!
Edit: Just as an aside Avago bought Broadcom ;) http://fortune.com/2015/05/28/avago-buys-broadcom-for-37b/
This might be a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway as this always seems to pop up as an issue :D
FreeNAS works with many different motherboards, processors, disk drives, etc. so why can't it accommodate a number of different SATA/SAS cards?
What's so special here?
It's not the first time though, as we've been from P14 to 16 to 20 and now 21.
What's so important to match the driver and firmware on these cards? Can't it deal with a mismatch?
Just trying to understand and gain some knowledge (as I have one on my motherboard, although all I know is I can plug some drives into the ports!)
Thanks for the update. Forgive me if I'm reading that wrong, but don't you mean to say that FreeNAS is going to be changed to not throw a warning for P20 firmware with the new P21 driver?
Why on earth did they create a P21 driver when there is no P21 firmware?
Can we just backlevel the driver to the P20 version instead of either (a) having mismatched driver versions (but without the warning message) or (b) reverting to the previous version of FreeNAS?
It's not the first time though, as we've been from P14 to 16 to 20 and now 21.
What's so important to match the driver and firmware on these cards? Can't it deal with a mismatch?
Just trying to understand and gain some knowledge (as I have one on my motherboard, although all I know is I can plug some drives into the ports!)
This is problematic. How was this release considered stable and something this significant not detected? I think we all dodged a bullet on this one that the driver mismatch didn't create any data corruption errors, but this lack of quality control is concerning. Also that someone reported the issue and was basically questioned on why he was using the nightlies, instead of logging it as an issue to look in to.
Additionally, there was no mention of a driver version change in the release notes.
Actually, Dru reported this very early. But it apparently took a while to figure out what had happened with the driver.Yeah, nobody noticed that at iXsystems
But in this case there is no such thing as P21 firmware for which Broadcom/Avago/LSI could have provided an updated driver.A number of manufacturers don't produce drivers that work well (or not at all) with FreeBSD, it's the
companies that make the products/drivers that are not accommodating, not the other way around.
The guy that did the P21 changes was trying to be helpful by fixing a few things. He decided that the appropriate thing would be to increase the version since he made changes (reasonable to be honest).