FreeNAS 11 and Supermicro X8DT6/X8DTE

[John_G]

Hi guys, I want to install FreeNAS on quite old hardware, will it do or maybe it's better to look for versions 9.10.X?
Here's hw info:
1. 2xE5620 Xeon
2. 56GB RAM DDR3 ECC
3. Supermicro X8DT6/X8DTE mobo
4. LSI 9211-8i with 16x6TB Toshiba HDD's (backplane is ok, controller sees 6TB disks), maybe reflash it to IT mode
5. Sandisk flashdrive

Maybe I'm wrong, but looks like this motherboard doesn't has UEFI support, can it be the issue?

 

[Ericloewe]

Maybe I'm wrong, but looks like this motherboard doesn't has UEFI support, can it be the issue?

That shouldn't be a problem at all.

 

[John_G]

That shouldn't be a problem at all.

Yeah, everything's ok for now, thank you.

 

[melloa]

maybe reflash it to IT mode

@Ericloewe lists the 9211 as not needing re-flash on the recommended hardware. Curious why you are planning to do it.

 

[Spearfoot]

Hi guys, I want to install FreeNAS on quite old hardware, will it do or maybe it's better to look for versions 9.10.X?
Here's hw info:
1. 2xE5620 Xeon
2. 56GB RAM DDR3 ECC
3. Supermicro X8DT6/X8DTE mobo
4. LSI 9211-8i with 16x6TB Toshiba HDD's (backplane is ok, controller sees 6TB disks), maybe reflash it to IT mode
5. Sandisk flashdrive

Maybe I'm wrong, but looks like this motherboard doesn't has UEFI support, can it be the issue?

I run FreeNAS 11.0-U1 on an old Supermicro X8SIE-LN4F-based system without any problems.

 

[John_G]

Thanks for feedback, guys.

@Ericloewe lists the 9211 as not needing re-flash on the recommended hardware. Curious why you are planning to do it.

Because I saw people doing it here (with instructions), they convert RAID controller to simple HBA. Why are they doing it? I guess to use plain zfs. I was mentally prepared for reflash, but now I'm a little bit confused. Because even in IR-mode freenas sees every separate disk without creating RAID groups now. How's that possible?

 

[macatarere]

FreeNAS-11.2-U4.1 installed to internal flash USB on an X8SIE-LN4F. Bios update to R 1.2a required to boot FreeNAS install. The ami.bat didn't work, manual did:
rename afudos.smu afudos.exe
afudos.exe biosname.### /p /b /n /c /x /k

Thanks to Spearfoot.