ASUS M4A88T-M/USB3 Mainboard Bios Ver 0704 (Latest)
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T CPU (6 core) @ 2.8Ghz
6 GB DDR3-1333 (3 x 2gb) in unganged mode.
AMD Firmware SATA RAID Option ROM Version 3.0.1540.39
6 x SATA HDD (2x1tb config as JBOD) for LD1 (4 x 2tb config as JBOD) for LD2
Intend to config as RAID 1 and RAID 5 (or maybe 6) respectively.
Firmware RAID only supports RAID 0,1 and 10.
CD is PATA and boots other things without a problem.
Various other USB boot drives work fine. Diagnostics on MB/RAM clean.
Same system seems to work fine with CentOS6.x X64 (Aside from usual Linux PITA with >2Gb volume sizes)
FreeNAS 8.3.1 X64 downloaded from FreeNAS site yesterday.
Tried USB and CD images on respective platforms without success.
USB says 'No boot' from F1 or F2 typing 'boot' produces 'no boot' message.
CD boot screen says :
Looking for boot loader - not found
Looking for boot loader - found
/
followed by immediate reset and then loops endlessly. Sometimes you don't even get the messages, it just resets.
FWIW your distant cousin NAS4Free does virtually the same thing and also seems to be BSD based so... suspect BSD issue. (Some suggestion from one ticket that it's a 'BSD driver problem' some people seem to have fixed it by crippling various mainboard features which is clearly unacceptable.
Question... some reason you are using BSD instead of a linux core for this? BSD seems to take a bit longer than forever to solve issues like this, and I'm wondering if it will ever be reliable on that platform, at least in any reasonable time frame.
Any advice appreciated. Not interested in buying another mainboard to 'fix' the problem. Needs to be this board in this config - don't want to throw a full Linux or Windows system on it if I can avoid it, but it's not looking promising for NAS right now which is a crying shame, because it looks to be exactly what we need.
Geoff
Australian Loadmaster Trailers
Georgetown
South Australia
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T CPU (6 core) @ 2.8Ghz
6 GB DDR3-1333 (3 x 2gb) in unganged mode.
AMD Firmware SATA RAID Option ROM Version 3.0.1540.39
6 x SATA HDD (2x1tb config as JBOD) for LD1 (4 x 2tb config as JBOD) for LD2
Intend to config as RAID 1 and RAID 5 (or maybe 6) respectively.
Firmware RAID only supports RAID 0,1 and 10.
CD is PATA and boots other things without a problem.
Various other USB boot drives work fine. Diagnostics on MB/RAM clean.
Same system seems to work fine with CentOS6.x X64 (Aside from usual Linux PITA with >2Gb volume sizes)
FreeNAS 8.3.1 X64 downloaded from FreeNAS site yesterday.
Tried USB and CD images on respective platforms without success.
USB says 'No boot' from F1 or F2 typing 'boot' produces 'no boot' message.
CD boot screen says :
Looking for boot loader - not found
Looking for boot loader - found
/
followed by immediate reset and then loops endlessly. Sometimes you don't even get the messages, it just resets.
FWIW your distant cousin NAS4Free does virtually the same thing and also seems to be BSD based so... suspect BSD issue. (Some suggestion from one ticket that it's a 'BSD driver problem' some people seem to have fixed it by crippling various mainboard features which is clearly unacceptable.
Question... some reason you are using BSD instead of a linux core for this? BSD seems to take a bit longer than forever to solve issues like this, and I'm wondering if it will ever be reliable on that platform, at least in any reasonable time frame.
Any advice appreciated. Not interested in buying another mainboard to 'fix' the problem. Needs to be this board in this config - don't want to throw a full Linux or Windows system on it if I can avoid it, but it's not looking promising for NAS right now which is a crying shame, because it looks to be exactly what we need.
Geoff
Australian Loadmaster Trailers
Georgetown
South Australia