asimov-solensan
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Hello,
I wanted to try a cheap card to use for the boot drive (and free one of the board sata ports), not ZRAID, I'm aware of the risks with these cheap PCIe controllers.
Before buying I wanted to be sure the model was supportedn in freebsd, and it seems support was introduced in 11.4:
www.freebsd.org
But it doesn't work. The board itself works booting ubuntu on the same server. But in truenas it just hangs without any error. Even the installation USB freezes when booting with one of the disks connected to it (see attached).
Maybe I'm misinterpreting something here, but since truenas runs on freebsd 12.2 this chipset should be supported.
The wider question for me here is if "supported by freebsd" == "supported by truenas". Because if that is not true I need to revisit my criteria when getting new hardware.
I wanted to try a cheap card to use for the boot drive (and free one of the board sata ports), not ZRAID, I'm aware of the risks with these cheap PCIe controllers.
Before buying I wanted to be sure the model was supportedn in freebsd, and it seems support was introduced in 11.4:

FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE Release Notes
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.
But it doesn't work. The board itself works booting ubuntu on the same server. But in truenas it just hangs without any error. Even the installation USB freezes when booting with one of the disks connected to it (see attached).
Maybe I'm misinterpreting something here, but since truenas runs on freebsd 12.2 this chipset should be supported.
The wider question for me here is if "supported by freebsd" == "supported by truenas". Because if that is not true I need to revisit my criteria when getting new hardware.