T520-CR in FreeNAS 9.1.0 Release

[tom__w]

Can anyone tell me if the T520-CR is supported in 9.1.0? The BIOS sees the card but FreeNAS doesn't seem to.

Thanks

 

[BigDave]

The underlying operating system in FreeNAS 9.1.0 was based on FreeBSD 9-STABLE,
so if you look for the BSD version hardware compatibility listings from that version
you can check to see if the NIC was supported in FreeNAS at that time.

I checked the list and only found the T3 chipset cards as the only Chelsio supported, sorry!

 

[tom__w]

The underlying operating system in FreeNAS 9.1.0 was based on FreeBSD 9-STABLE,
so if you look for the BSD version hardware compatibility listings from that version
you can check to see if the NIC was supported in FreeNAS at that time.

I checked the list and only found the T3 chipset cards as the only Chelsio supported, sorry!

Yup. I am doing the same thing and only see the T3 as well. sh*t

 

[BigDave]

Yup. I am doing the same thing and only see the T3 as well. sh*t

Hey the good news is the T3 NICs are very cheap and they work pretty darn good. ;)

 

[tom__w]

Yup. I am doing the same thing and only see the T3 as well. sh*t

Looks like FreeBSD 10.1 is the earliest it was supported. What version of FreeNAS does that correspond to?

 

[BigDave]

I honestly don't know! But if your server is in production and you can't or don't need to upgrade,
I would buy a T3 card or two and try them out. The alternative is to update the version of
FreeNAS to a version that supports the T520 and that 9.x.x version timeline may introduce some instability
within other areas. Maybe not the best tradeoff...
Is there a particular reason you are way back on version 9.1.0?

 

[tom__w]

I honestly don't know! But if your server is in production and you can't or don't need to upgrade,
I would buy a T3 card or two and try them out. The alternative is to update the version of
FreeNAS to a version that supports the T520 and that 9.x.x version timeline may introduce some instability
within other areas. Maybe not the best tradeoff...
Is there a particular reason you are way back on version 9.1.0?

No real good reason other than it is a production box. I have a new box built with 11 and I am almost ready to transfer everything. I was just hoping to do it at 10 GB rather than 1 (or less).

I have this unfounded fear of upgrading the FreeNAS version from 9.1 to 11 I suppose.

 

[Stux]

Looks like FreeBSD 10.1 is the earliest it was supported. What version of FreeNAS does that correspond to?

9.10.1?

Anyway FreeNAS 11 is based on FreeBSD 11.

 

[tom__w]

9.10.1?

Anyway FreeNAS 11 is based on FreeBSD 11.

OK. So it turns out my EXSi (5.1) also doesn't work with the T520-CR cards that I got. ughhh

So I got a few S320E cards (per @BigDave) just for the transfer. I figure I can always sell them on.

Apparently I have an aversion to upgrading... lol

 

[Ericloewe]

Looks like FreeBSD 10.1 is the earliest it was supported. What version of FreeNAS does that correspond to?

None. FreeNAS 9.10 has always used 10.3.