FreeNAS not seeing 2610sa after rebuild

[Kakistos153]

Long time lurker, first time poster. My FreeNAS is as follows.

Z75 pro3 motherboard
Thermaltake 450w power supply
2610sa cerc 1.5
2500k cpu
Usb boot drive
6 drives

So I rebuilt my FreeNAS with that motherboard because I wanted to add a second 2610. My previous board didn't have two slots. It all worked fine with 1 card in the previous motherboard but now the following happens.

The cerc card loads at bios, can boot to the controller. When FreeNAS loads, in the web ui, it doesn't see anything no matter how I configure the drives (individual volumes or in a raid).

 

[Mirfster]

2610sa cerc 1.5

If I am correct that is an actual Hardware Raid Controller and is NOT capable of using IT/JBOD Mode. As well, I also think that card is limited to only seeing drive space up to 2.2 TB.

(individual volumes or in a raid)

If you were configuring your drives on this card as either of those in the past... Don't...

I would recommend that you acquire a true HBA (LSI 9211) or cards that can be cross-flashed (IBM M1015 or Perc H200).

 

[Kakistos153]

Found a similar problem on the forums that got me some progress.

Code:

[root@freenas ~]# camcontrol devlist
<WDC WD10EACS-00ZJB0 01.01B01> at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass0)
<SanDisk Cruzer Fit 1.27> at scbus7 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,da0)

[root@freenas ~]# dmesg | grep controller
ehci0: <Intel Panther Point USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xf7e18000-0xf7e183ff irq 16
at device 26.0 on pci0
aac0: FATAL: controller kernel panicdevice_attach: aac0 attach returned 6
aac0: FATAL: controller kernel panicdevice_attach: aac0 attach returned 6
ehci1: <Intel Panther Point USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xf7e17000-0xf7e173ff irq 23
at device 29.0 on pci0
ahci0: <Intel Panther Point AHCI SATA controller> port 0xf0b0-0xf0b7,0xf0a0-0xf0
a3,0xf090-0xf097,0xf080-0xf083,0xf060-0xf07f mem 0xf7e16000-0xf7e167ff irq 19 at
device 31.2 on pci0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
aac0: FATAL: controller kernel panicdevice_attach: aac0 attach returned 6
aac0: FATAL: controller kernel panicdevice_attach: aac0 attach returned 6
aac0: FATAL: controller kernel panicdevice_attach: aac0 attach returned 6
aac0: FATAL: controller kernel panicdevice_attach: aac0 attach returned 6
aac0: FATAL: controller kernel panicdevice_attach: aac0 attach returned 6
aac0: FATAL: controller kernel panicdevice_attach: aac0 attach returned 6
aac0: FATAL: controller kernel panicdevice_attach: aac0 attach returned 6
aac0: FATAL: controller kernel panicdevice_attach: aac0 attach returned 6

So that aac0 error is the culprit. Bearing in mind that this was working before i swapped the motherboard. I updated the bios but still getting this. Trying to get the bios into legacy mode is my next step unless someone has a better idea. "buy new hardware" isn't an answer when this stuff has worked in the past.

 

[Mirfster]

"buy new hardware" isn't an answer when this stuff has worked in the past.

Whether or not it "worked in the past" is meaningless when that consisted of working in an unsupported manner. Your data, your choice; however do not expect any sympathy if your data is lost. There is a reason why the contributors have gone to great lengths providing data on what hardware to use and what hardware not to use.

 

[Kakistos153]

Sure, and I appreciate that. It's just not an issue for me. If I cared about my data I wouldn't have cobbled this thing together from the junk laying around my lab. And that raid card may not be suggested by FreeNAS but it's is supposed to supported by free-bsd.