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Got this when I upgraded one of my arrays to 4 TB drives. Wanted to re-use that old server without an expensive RAID card. RAID-Z2 was the solution. Seemed simple enough, I do tons of Linux builds, etc. No problem. Snagged up the card.
FreeNAS, no joy. FreeBSD, same. CentOS LiveDVD however does show the disks without any issues. The Free's show a drive timeout like: (I'm typing this by hand so it might have a typo... This is BSD's reporting)
So it seems for whatever reason FreeBSD 9's driver isn't working with this particular card. Is there a tweaked AHCI driver somewhere? I'd rather use FreeBSD for this RAID-Z2 setup (8-drives) but... CentOS can do it... I'd rather not. Although it was rather odd having to setup the main boot drive also (it was an IDE drive and I had to jump through hurdles with the CD-ROM drive since it was SATA, it didn't want to load, I had to drop it to IDE mode. I need to fix that.)
Either way; I can easily setup a RAID 6 (though likely not Z2, have to check) in CentOS directly through the tool without a controller card on all 8 drives. But TBH, I'd rather have the lower overhead and more pure direct NAS-ness of FreeBSD for this system. Anyone have any ideas? I've done tons of Linux distributions before, at home and professionally but never FreeBSD.
Got this when I upgraded one of my arrays to 4 TB drives. Wanted to re-use that old server without an expensive RAID card. RAID-Z2 was the solution. Seemed simple enough, I do tons of Linux builds, etc. No problem. Snagged up the card.
FreeNAS, no joy. FreeBSD, same. CentOS LiveDVD however does show the disks without any issues. The Free's show a drive timeout like: (I'm typing this by hand so it might have a typo... This is BSD's reporting)
Code:
ahcich6:Timeout on slot0 port0
ahcich6: is 00000002 cs 00000000 ss 00000000 rs 00000001 tfd 50 serr 00000000 cmd 00046017
(aprobe1:ahchich6:0:0:0): ATA_IDENTITY ACB: EC 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00
(aprobe1:ahchich6:0:0:0): CAM status: Command Timeout
(aprobe1:ahchich6:0:0:0): Error 5 Retry was blocked
So it seems for whatever reason FreeBSD 9's driver isn't working with this particular card. Is there a tweaked AHCI driver somewhere? I'd rather use FreeBSD for this RAID-Z2 setup (8-drives) but... CentOS can do it... I'd rather not. Although it was rather odd having to setup the main boot drive also (it was an IDE drive and I had to jump through hurdles with the CD-ROM drive since it was SATA, it didn't want to load, I had to drop it to IDE mode. I need to fix that.)
Either way; I can easily setup a RAID 6 (though likely not Z2, have to check) in CentOS directly through the tool without a controller card on all 8 drives. But TBH, I'd rather have the lower overhead and more pure direct NAS-ness of FreeBSD for this system. Anyone have any ideas? I've done tons of Linux distributions before, at home and professionally but never FreeBSD.