Adaptec 52445, JBODs are not visible to the OS

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Hello everyone,

I have a FreeBSD 10.2 amd64 Supermicro server with an Adaptec 52445. I have 4x 1TB Seagate attached to it and I would like to configure them as JBODs for a future ZFS pool. The only issue is this:
Code: 
# arcconf create 1 jbod 0 10
Controllers found: 2
WARNING: The selected controller supports JBODs, but the currently
installed driver does not.  You may not see JBOD disks in your
operating system until you upgrade your driver.
Created JBOD: 0,10

Command completed successfully.

Even though the cmd finishes successfully, there is no node created for the hdd. I can of course just configure each hdd as a volume but I'm unsure of the difference between that and a JBOD configuration.

Thoughts on the driver issue?
 
Can you configure one single disk stripe per disk as a workaround? That way ZFS would see each disk but the disks probably still contain some controller specific metadata.
 
Yes I did and it was a no go, the HDD's did not appear in the OS. it's only after I removed them from the card's BIOS and tried to create JBOD's from the OS that I saw the driver message.
 
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