HP Microservers (N36L N40L N54L) with AMD & FreeNAS 10

[diskdiddler]

Hi,

I recall a discussion about these 6 months back and I'll be damned if I can find it. Someone speculated we could have big issues with 10 due to the AMD CPU / chipset. Apparently with new versions of FreeBSD the AMD support is initially awful.

Anyone tried the nightlys of 10 on a Microserver? - This isn't a really big priority here, I'm just curious if they will end up supported or not in the long run?

 

[marbus90]

FreeNAS 10.1 is still in M1 and the new GUI isn't finished. As in, you can't do anything there. So extensive testing is limited to CLI hackery which doesn't reflect the FreeNAS ways of doing it. So it may or may not crash, even on Intel systems.

 

[diskdiddler]

FreeNAS 10.1 is still in M1 and the new GUI isn't finished. As in, you can't do anything there. So extensive testing is limited to CLI hackery which doesn't reflect the FreeNAS ways of doing it. So it may or may not crash, even on Intel systems.

I wasn't aware it was that basic.

My understanding from the conversations though, was that it's possible it may never work, due to the architecture, perhaps I should frame my question as "Does anyone know if FreeBSD 10, supports the AMD turion setup that the HP Microserver uses?"

Mind you, it was only speculation someone dropped, that it may not work long term.

 

[cyberjock]

My understanding from the conversations though, was that it's possible it may never work, due to the architecture, perhaps I should frame my question as "Does anyone know if FreeBSD 10, supports the AMD turion setup that the HP Microserver uses?"

If you search the FreeBSD forums you'll probably find evidence if it doesn't work as people will probably have threads complaining about it not being compatible.

 

[diskdiddler]

Thanks, was just kinda hoping someone here had played guinea pig already!

 

[gpsguy]

While not a true apples to apples test, I have FreeBSD 10.1 installed in a ESXi VM running on my N54L.

It's just a basic install. I only use the VM to generate the FreeNAS 9.3 documentation as a PDF.