So, I decided I wanted to upgrade my NAS-I'm coming from FreeNAS 8, and it's worked like a champ so far. Upgraded to the following hardware:
ASRock C2550D4I motherboard/cpu
2x8GB Kingston DDR3, from the recommended list for that board
6x3tb Seagate ST3000DM001 -approved drives for the 6805
Adaptec 6805 raid card
I got FreeNAS 9.2 installed just fine, except when I boot it up and get to the web interface to add the disks, nothing shows up (I might add, that previous to trying to get FreeNAS on here, I installed Windows 7 on a spare SSD I had laying around, to do some benchmarks on the array, so yes, the array is setup and functional). I did some further reading, and it appears that the Adaptec card is not natively supported by FreeNAS. That's fine I guess, I'm always up for a challenge. I download the most recent drivers for the card from the Adaptec site...and that's about where I've gotten to. Here's what I've tried to load the drivers:
1: Edit the ISO for FreeNAS, by injecting the drivers into the /boot/module folder, and add a /boot/loader.conf.local containing :
CODE: SELECT ALL
# Loading Adaptec Raid ASR 6805 card
aacu64_load="YES"
I got this from this thread: http://forums.freenas.org/index.php...-load-adaptec-raid-drivers.17520/#post-104939
This basically doesnt install at all-it pauses before it gets to the actual install-just sits there indefinitely.
2: Load the drivers onto 3 different flash drives formatted in fat32 and try to copy them to the FreeNAS box, then tried the same with ntfs, and all the FreeNAS machine does is spit out 5-6 different messages about how it hates my flash drives. I also tried to format the drives from within the FreeNAS machine, and it spits out errors about how the drives dont exist. I've tried mounting them, and I get similar errors about how they dont exist.
I was referencing this thread as a guide for this part:
http://blog.hani-ibrahim.de/en/netzwerktreiber-auf-freenas-installieren.html
He was installing a network driver, but I figured the same principles could be adapted to my raid card.
3: Setup a FreeBSD 9.2 virtual machine within VirtualBox, and tried to copy the drivers onto the flash drive with FreeNAS installed on it. This was just a frustrating mess...very similar errors to what I was getting from above, where the drives dont exist.
I'm probably just forgetting something basic and stupid, but hey...I've done everything I can think of. I'm not too fluent in FreeBSD, but I'm pretty good at googling how to do something :) All my computers, with exception to my FreeNAS box, are Windows 7.
So, oh wise forums...where have I gone wrong? What needs to happen to get my card going?
ASRock C2550D4I motherboard/cpu
2x8GB Kingston DDR3, from the recommended list for that board
6x3tb Seagate ST3000DM001 -approved drives for the 6805
Adaptec 6805 raid card
I got FreeNAS 9.2 installed just fine, except when I boot it up and get to the web interface to add the disks, nothing shows up (I might add, that previous to trying to get FreeNAS on here, I installed Windows 7 on a spare SSD I had laying around, to do some benchmarks on the array, so yes, the array is setup and functional). I did some further reading, and it appears that the Adaptec card is not natively supported by FreeNAS. That's fine I guess, I'm always up for a challenge. I download the most recent drivers for the card from the Adaptec site...and that's about where I've gotten to. Here's what I've tried to load the drivers:
1: Edit the ISO for FreeNAS, by injecting the drivers into the /boot/module folder, and add a /boot/loader.conf.local containing :
CODE: SELECT ALL
# Loading Adaptec Raid ASR 6805 card
aacu64_load="YES"
I got this from this thread: http://forums.freenas.org/index.php...-load-adaptec-raid-drivers.17520/#post-104939
This basically doesnt install at all-it pauses before it gets to the actual install-just sits there indefinitely.
2: Load the drivers onto 3 different flash drives formatted in fat32 and try to copy them to the FreeNAS box, then tried the same with ntfs, and all the FreeNAS machine does is spit out 5-6 different messages about how it hates my flash drives. I also tried to format the drives from within the FreeNAS machine, and it spits out errors about how the drives dont exist. I've tried mounting them, and I get similar errors about how they dont exist.
I was referencing this thread as a guide for this part:
http://blog.hani-ibrahim.de/en/netzwerktreiber-auf-freenas-installieren.html
He was installing a network driver, but I figured the same principles could be adapted to my raid card.
3: Setup a FreeBSD 9.2 virtual machine within VirtualBox, and tried to copy the drivers onto the flash drive with FreeNAS installed on it. This was just a frustrating mess...very similar errors to what I was getting from above, where the drives dont exist.
I'm probably just forgetting something basic and stupid, but hey...I've done everything I can think of. I'm not too fluent in FreeBSD, but I'm pretty good at googling how to do something :) All my computers, with exception to my FreeNAS box, are Windows 7.
So, oh wise forums...where have I gone wrong? What needs to happen to get my card going?