Raid card drives not showing up in freenas.

[Vincent Jansen]

Hello,

I have a AsRock mini ate C2750D4I mobo, 10x 3TB WD Red setup and a raid controller to expand my setup with x5 3TB drives also WD Red.
With some slight problems in the beginning I managed the raid card to find an initialise the 4 drives (1 is connected to the mobo) I also configured the drives as JBOD.

My problem, when I go to FreeNAS the drives are not visible at all. View disks only shows the drives that are directly connected to de mobo not the raid card.
I rechecked the raid bios and the JBOD config is still there.
Could someone help me out?

 

[danb35]

Not without knowing, at a minimum, what RAID card and version of FreeNAS you're using. Why are you using a RAID card in the first place? They're very rarely a good idea with FreeNAS/ZFS.

Edit: I see in another thread you mention that you're using an Adaptec RAID 5805. Adaptec cards are usually a bad choice, and as I said above, RAID controllers are rarely a good idea either. But let's see if your system can see the drives at all. What's the output of 'camcontrol devlist'?

 

[Vincent Jansen]

Sorry forgot the mention it. I am using a Adaptec RAID 5805. I got it at a good second hand price and was unaware of the HBA cards. If I had know I would have gotten a HBA card. The plan was not to use the Raid features of the card and just use it to expand my sata ports by 8.
Running FreeNAS-9.2.1.5-RELEASE-x64 (80c1d35)

 

[Vincent Jansen]

[root@Collection14 ~]# camcontrol devlist
<WDC WD30EFRX-68E 82.0> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68E 82.0> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68E 82.0> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass2)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68E 82.0> at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (pass3)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 82.00A82> at scbus3 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass4)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 80.00A80> at scbus4 target 0 lun 0 (ada1,pass5)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 80.00A80> at scbus5 target 0 lun 0 (ada2,pass6)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 82.00A82> at scbus6 target 0 lun 0 (ada3,pass7)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 82.00A82> at scbus7 target 0 lun 0 (ada4,pass8)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 82.00A82> at scbus8 target 0 lun 0 (ada5,pass9)
<Marvell Console 1.01> at scbus12 target 0 lun 0 (pass10)
<Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00> at scbus20 target 0 lun 0 (pass11,da0)
[root@Collection14 ~]#

5 drives of my second volume are currently offline due to a power cable break, waiting for a replacement.

 

[danb35]

It means go to the shell, type in "camcontrol devlist", and post the output.

 

[Vincent Jansen]

found it.

edit,
If I understand this correctly the top 4 should be the raid card and the bottom 6 the one on my mobo.
First 5 are my first raid z volume and the 1 I will add to the 4 from the raid card. Thats the plan.

[root@Collection14 ~]# camcontrol devlist
<WDC WD30EFRX-68E 82.0> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68E 82.0> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68E 82.0> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass2)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68E 82.0> at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (pass3)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 82.00A82> at scbus3 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass4)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 80.00A80> at scbus4 target 0 lun 0 (ada1,pass5)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 80.00A80> at scbus5 target 0 lun 0 (ada2,pass6)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 82.00A82> at scbus6 target 0 lun 0 (ada3,pass7)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 82.00A82> at scbus7 target 0 lun 0 (ada4,pass8)
<WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 82.00A82> at scbus8 target 0 lun 0 (ada5,pass9)
<Marvell Console 1.01> at scbus12 target 0 lun 0 (pass10)
<Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00> at scbus20 target 0 lun 0 (pass11,da0)
[root@Collection14 ~]#

 

[danb35]

Looks like the RAID controller isn't supported--notice that those drives don't have an Ada or da number. Get a proper HBA and you should be fine.

 

[Vincent Jansen]

any recommendations?

 

[danb35]

IBM M1015 or LSI 9211-8i are the go-to suggestions. In both cases, flashed to the correct firmware.

 

[Ericloewe]

any recommendations?

They're plastered all over the forum.

• LSI SAS 9211
• LSI SAS 9207
• LSI SAS 9240*
• LSI SAS 9201
• IBM M1015*
• LSI SAS 9300**

*Requires crossflashing
**If you're feeling adventurous.

 

[Vincent Jansen]

Just ordered the LSI 9211-8i out of pure frustration. Gonna take a couple of weeks to get here though. (China post is slow :P)

 

[Ericloewe]

Just ordered the LSI 9211-8i out of pure frustration. Gonna take a couple of weeks to get here though. (China post is slow :p)

Ooohhh... Careful with fakes.