New hardware added.

[Quinnx]

I've purchased a HP P410 SAS Controller and booted the system.

However either Freenas or the kernel does not see the card, nor any drives attached to it.

Is there a quick way to get this working, or something special like compiling the drives or adding the hardware so that I can see the new drives to make this work?

Thanks for your time, bit of a newbie

 

[sremick]

Can this controller even be put into "dumb" (IT) mode? You definitely do not want to use hardware RAID w/ FreeNAS

 

[rsquared]

That appears to be a hardware RAID controller with no real way to do JBOD. In other words, its not a card you want to use in a FreeNAS system, which does software RAID.

I'd suggest seeing if you can return/resell it, and get a proper HBA controller. The IBM M1015 or LSI 9211 series are the most commonly recommended around here.

 

[Mirfster]

I prefer the H200 crossflashed to LSI 9211 (since I am cheap and run older stuff); but eh that is just me. What @rsquared said is the best recommendation.

BTW, what are your system specs?

If you have a motherboard with enough SATA Ports to connect your hard drives, then you don't even need a HBA right now. Just pull out the card and connect everything to the motherboard.

You may have to change some settings in the BIOS (if it is running in RAID Mode); but since we have no idea about your specs we can only assume....

 

[Quinnx]

I've disabled the boot rom option, and I don't want card to manage the Raid, just the interface of the hardware to the freenas system.

However I do not see the new 4x4TB drives in the system.

i've done a camcontrol rescan all and dev

Output below;

[root@Jupiter] ~# camcontrol dev
<KingFast 20150429> at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass0)
<SanDisk SSD U100 128GB 10.01.04> at scbus4 target 0 lun 0 (ada1,pass1)
<Marvell Console 1.01> at scbus9 target 0 lun 0 (pass2)
<ST8000AS0002-1NA17Z AR13> at scbus10 target 0 lun 0 (ada2,pass3)
<ST5000DM000-1FK178 CC48> at scbus11 target 0 lun 0 (ada3,pass4)
<TOSHIBA DT01ACA300 MX6OABB0> at scbus12 target 0 lun 0 (ada4,pass5)
<TOSHIBA DT01ACA300 MX6OABB0> at scbus13 target 0 lun 0 (ada5,pass6)
<TOSHIBA DT01ACA300 MX6OABB0> at scbus14 target 0 lun 0 (ada6,pass7)
<TOSHIBA DT01ACA300 MX6OABB0> at scbus15 target 0 lun 0 (ada7,pass8)
<SanDisk Cruzer Edge 1.26> at scbus17 target 0 lun 0 (pass9,da0)

But no new drives at all.

Does freenas even know that the P410 card is installed and has 4 drives connected to it?

Thanks again for your time.

 

[Mirfster]

Not thinking so, cut your losses and get a real HBA or one of the recommended cards that can be crossflashed.

 

[Quinnx]

I prefer the H200 crossflashed to LSI 9211 (since I am cheap and run older stuff); but eh that is just me. What @rsquared said is the best recommendation.

BTW, what are your system specs?

If you have a motherboard with enough SATA Ports to connect your hard drives, then you don't even need a HBA right now. Just pull out the card and connect everything to the motherboard.

You may have to change some settings in the BIOS (if it is running in RAID Mode); but since we have no idea about your specs we can only assume....

Do you know if the H200 supports 4TB drives?

Need a card that suppots 4TB drives...and does not cost the earth.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Mirfster]

Yep will work fine for that. While I have only a couple 3TBs in a FreeNas Dev/Test Server, it will be fine for drives > 2Tb... On a different Server I setup for a client of mine is running 12x3TB HGST drives.

 

[Mirfster]

I think that the M1015 is about the same cost as well. I went with the H200 since my Servers have a Mezzanine allocated for the H200. Also have one PCI (H200) version that is in the Dev Machine.

 

[Quinnx]

Yep will work fine for that. While I have only a couple 3TBs in a FreeNas Dev/Test Server, it will be fine for drives > 2Tb... On a different Server I setup for a client of mine is running 12x3TB HGST drives.

Ok, thanks.


Reading https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...d-lsi-9211-8i-firmware-driver-mismatch.23650/ need to do a firmware update on it.

Thanks, will go ebaying!

 

[Mirfster]

Yeah, flashing it is not too bad (at least for me). I have done 4 or 5 myself. So if you find that you need help, just feel free to ask.

 

[Quinnx]

Yeah, flashing it is not too bad (at least for me). I have done 4 or 5 myself. So if you find that you need help, just feel free to ask.

Thanks Mirfster, will pm ya if I run into any issues.