First Time with, Freenas problem

[jusromaine]

Ok I have seen in the mfi that it works with perc5


So I have installed on a dell r710 with no problems, as well as freenas will show the hard drives in the disk tab but when I go to creat a pool it will not show any disk there. as well I have installed the 11.2 version.

Also I did not add in anything for the boot. so I didnt add the
mfi_load="YES"

ok I did go and add the mfi_load under the

# Load ipmi module
ipmi_load="YES"
mfi_load="YES"

in the loader.config

 

[Chris Moore]

Updated Forum Rules 12/5/18
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/updated-forum-rules-12-5-18.45124/

Did you read the manual?
http://doc.freenas.org/11/freenas.html

Ok I have seen in the mfi that it works with perc5

No, and what is a "mfi"?

So I have installed on a dell r710 with no problems, as well as freenas will show the hard drives in the disk tab but when I go to creat a pool it will not show any disk there. as well I have installed the 11.2 version.

If you are using a PERC5 (not supported) you are not seeing disks because you are using an unsupported disk controller.

Hardware Recommendations Guide Rev 1e) 2017-05-06
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/hardware-recommendations-guide.12/

 

[jusromaine]

ok thanks for the reply I was going thru the rules a little at a time. but the the mfi is this
HARDWARE
The mfi driver supports the following hardware:

+o LSI MegaRAID SAS 1078
+o LSI MegaRAID SAS 8408E
+o LSI MegaRAID SAS 8480E
+o LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260
+o Dell PERC5
+o Dell PERC6
+o IBM ServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA
+o IBM ServeRAID-MR10i
+o Intel RAID Controller SROMBSAS18E
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mfi&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.1-RELEASE

so thats where I was getting that it was supported, I will look more into the manual more now. Thanks

 

[Chris Moore]

That explains it. You thought you were using FreeBSD but this is FreeNAS.

Although that driver does exist in FreeNAS, because FreeNAS is based on BSD, FreeNAS is an appliance that only supports the ZFS file system and the ZFS file system needs direct access to the individual disk. This controller (PERC5) is designed to have an array created in firmware and supply a single volume to the OS. This is inconsistent with the design principles of FreeNAS.

You need a plain SAS HBA in IT mode.
Please advise if you have questions. Always best to ask first.

 

[jusromaine]

ok i took what you said and I got it to work with my perc 6/i too some really playing around and I didnt have to put them in raid 0 what I had todo was,
1) make partions on the harddrives that was for storage. as ntfs
2) remove them, leaving in one harddrive for install of freenas.
3)install freenas as normal when told to restart. reinstall the rest of the harddrive.
4)go control r to enter raid config now import the forin config.

now once freenas is booted you will be able to use them in the pool. and still have your raid config like for exp im using 4 of my hard drives as raid10
this is with a dell r710 with the perc 6/i

 

[Chris Moore]

make partions on the harddrives that was for storage. as ntfs

No. You want to use NTFS in FreeNAS? You might as well install Windows. What are you thinking? Did you read any, ANY of the documentation for FreeNAS? ANY OF IT?
The whole reason for using FreeNAS is the ZFS file system. If you want some other file system you can easily use some other operating system, even any generic version of Linux. Please don't do this.

 

[jusromaine]

Yea the only reason I don that was for it to see it because when you create the pool it reformation the hard drives. And it converted it to zfs.

 

[jusromaine]

Like once I created the pools I when back and check the portion information and it showed hold on let me look again.

The only reason I did the NTFS was because I put in a mother hard drive that was from windows and free as seen it that’s why I done that because free as can read the hard drive from its partition of the size. Giving me time waiting on my hba sas card in the mail.