lcvieira_br
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Hi, all.
In brief, so I'll not take too much time: I have already built 6 N.A.S. units based on FreeNAS 9.2.1.x versions, many different M-boards from different manufacturers and found only one M-board that did not work properly with at least eight different FreeNAS versions. The problem was the same: in neither of the versions, FreeNAS could identify the hard disks. I tested with different SATA and IDE hard disks - I have M-boards successfully running FreeNAS with both structures -, running either x64 or x86 versions in four different FreeNAS distributions and none of these could 'see' the hard disks. The BIOS of the M-board correctly sees the hard disks while configuring & booting and I tried to follow the messages while FreeNAS was loading, but all I see are the first lines showing the disks - BIOS drive C: is disk0, BIOS drive D: is disk1 and s on... - and after that the FreeNAS installation goes regularly straight, showing no error messages - at least to me -, ending with the classical call for an option (1-11).
I confess I have no yet accepted this as a closed case, I want to go further - update BIOS, try some different setup handling and so - prior to give up, and if you want to know about it, here goes a link to the manual:
http://static.highspeedbackbone.net/pdf/PCChips_P17G-1333_Manual.pdf
So, is there any list of known M-boards that do not work at all with FreeNAS? Any suggestions about this one? If applicable, please point out some threads I should read about this subject.
The units I built use ASUS, GIGABYTE, Intel and other boards (I can list them, if applicable).
Thanks a lot.
Luiz C. Vieira (Brazil)
In brief, so I'll not take too much time: I have already built 6 N.A.S. units based on FreeNAS 9.2.1.x versions, many different M-boards from different manufacturers and found only one M-board that did not work properly with at least eight different FreeNAS versions. The problem was the same: in neither of the versions, FreeNAS could identify the hard disks. I tested with different SATA and IDE hard disks - I have M-boards successfully running FreeNAS with both structures -, running either x64 or x86 versions in four different FreeNAS distributions and none of these could 'see' the hard disks. The BIOS of the M-board correctly sees the hard disks while configuring & booting and I tried to follow the messages while FreeNAS was loading, but all I see are the first lines showing the disks - BIOS drive C: is disk0, BIOS drive D: is disk1 and s on... - and after that the FreeNAS installation goes regularly straight, showing no error messages - at least to me -, ending with the classical call for an option (1-11).
I confess I have no yet accepted this as a closed case, I want to go further - update BIOS, try some different setup handling and so - prior to give up, and if you want to know about it, here goes a link to the manual:
http://static.highspeedbackbone.net/pdf/PCChips_P17G-1333_Manual.pdf
So, is there any list of known M-boards that do not work at all with FreeNAS? Any suggestions about this one? If applicable, please point out some threads I should read about this subject.
The units I built use ASUS, GIGABYTE, Intel and other boards (I can list them, if applicable).
Thanks a lot.
Luiz C. Vieira (Brazil)
