FreeNAS 13 supports MegaRAID 9560-16i raid controllder?

[Hyunseok_Kim]

I have a MegaRAID 9560-16i raid controller.

MegaRAID 9560-16i

The MegaRAID 9500 series is the industry’s first PCIe Gen4 RAID adapter family, offering PCIe Gen4 host and storage interfaces. The MegaRAID 9560-16i adapter, based on the SAS3916 high-port count PCIe 4.0 x8 RAID-on-Chip (RoC), delivers twice the performance of previous generations. The 9560-16i...

www.broadcom.com

which support FreeBSD 11 but not mentioned FreeBSD13.
(see the page 7)

https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/MR-TM-Driver-IG104

and I heard FreeNAS 11 is FreeBSD 11, so I am expecting FreeNAS version 11 will work.

Howerver current stable version is 13.
so I am wondering If I update latest version of firmware, my raid controller will work on FreeNAS 13 version?

otherwise, should I use FreeNAS 11?

Thank you for your time.

 

[jgreco]

and I heard FreeNAS 11 is FreeBSD 11, so I am expecting FreeNAS version 11 will work.

You expect incorrectly. Hardware RAID controllers are not compatible with ZFS. Ditch the LSI RAID and get a suitable LSI HBA instead. See

What's all the noise about HBAs, and why can't I use a RAID controller?

1) An HBA is a Host Bus Adapter. This is a controller that allows SAS and SATA devices to be attached to, and communicate directly with, a server. RAID controllers typically aggregate several disks into a Virtual Disk abstraction of some sort...

www.truenas.com

 

[Hyunseok_Kim]

Dear jgreco, Thank you for your advice. I should get an LSI HBA Controller instead.