FreeNAS 11.3: Dell PERC 5/I not detecting drives via back-plane

ChrisPro

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Apr 4, 2020
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Ok, I'm going to start off by saying this right now. I am very new to FreeNAS and don't know much about it.

My problem begins with my Dell PowerEdge 2950 Mk III. I have a current install of FreeNAS 11.3 installed on two mirrored USB drives via the back two USB ports, The server boots slowly but still boots to FreeNAS, the problem is that the Dell PERC 5/I card isn't seeing the 5x 300GB SAS drives and 1x 2TB SATA drive and I have already configured the raid card to put each drive in its own raid 0 but I still don't know why it's not seeing them.

Any help would be appreciated!
 

Redcoat

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Feb 18, 2014
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Search here for PERC 5i - lots of posts about it. Basically not good for FreeNAS, you need to junk it and get an HBA.
 
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