Fresh installation of 9.10 stable storage problem

[mst]

Dear experts, I have installed freeNAS on Supermicro 6047R-E1R24N with 16 hard drives and LSI MegaRaid SuperMicro SMC2108 controller. 16 Hard Drives are not configured to any virtual drives, as of now independent.

Looks like freeNAS is not detecting them. Can I use LSI SMC2108 controller at all with freeNAS? Seems like I have to research how to make them start working with freeNAS.

Thank You

 

[mst]

lspci shows

05:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] (rev 05)

 

[SweetAndLow]

You probably need to flash your card into IT mode. Raid cards do not work with zfs.

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[bigphil]

You might be SOL with that card. I don't believe it supports passthrough mode nor flashing to IT firmware. Because of that, it would not be a good choice for use with FreeNAS. You may need to get an LSI/Avagotech HBA card.

 

[mst]

is this exactly the card: https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9207-8i ?

 

[bigphil]

is this exactly the card: https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9207-8i ?

Yes, that card would work correctly and is SAS2.1 compliant. Depending on price, you could even go with the SAS 9300-8i for the SAS3 spec/12Gbps. Make sure you purchase the card from a reputable reseller...there are a lot of fake LSI cards out there on Ebay and the like.

 

[mst]

If I use that card do I have to do anything from freeNAS like install manually drivers, ect.? Or it will be detected by freeNAS?

 

[SweetAndLow]

You will never install drivers on freenas. It should all just work out of the box if you choose the correct hardware.

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[mst]

Looks like I was able to set raid0 for each drive and now freeNAS recognize all of them

 

[bigphil]

Looks like I was able to set raid0 for each drive and now FreeNAS recognize all of them

Bad idea. If this is or is going to be a production system, it is highly advised to NOT do this. You really need to have a card that offers true passthrough/HBA mode or you increase the risk and likelihood of zpool corruption.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Looks like I was able to set raid0 for each drive and now FreeNAS recognize all of them

Have you not listened or read anything we have been saying? You should not I use this card.

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[mst]

Thank You all of You for help here. I just want to test the current card to "see" first GUI screens etc.... just simply test. I read about not using in production and I will not. I am impressed with this product as freeware and my plan is to use in production as backup of production backups. Either i plan use NFS or iSCSI with ESX5.x But I have to start from some point which is preliminary setup with whatever I have now available. Of Course I will procedure with purchasing the card and I listen all of advice here of not using the current not compatibility card with FreeNas. I have to say YOU guys as awesome in help here.
Thank You again, -A

 

[mst]

If FreeNas is compatible with https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9300-8i then I will go with SAS3 spec/12Gbps. my current cables and enclosure from SuperMicro should be compatible with that controller. The difference in price is that big so I should have approval for that card. I will plan to us with with iSCSI on dedicated Cisco 4900 2x10GB - I hope the performance would be great. Thank You

 

[mst]

I have decided to go with sas-9207-8i based on the research and specification for existing storage - Supermicro. sas-9300 is nice but uses different cable and with our SATA 6GB drives there is no need for such card. 9207 should be efficient and just work fine.