geronimo
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Hello Gents,
I am running FreeNAS with LSI MegaRAID 9460-16i. I know you would say you should not run FreeNAS with a hardware RAID, but the case is that all my drives are set in JBOD mode. When I boot the same controller in various flavors of Linux and ESXI 6.7U2 all the drives are recognized correctly and have direct access.
In FreeNAS I can see the 9460-16i card recognized and the proper driver is already compiled in the kernel and I can see it loaded. The problem I have is that even though the driver is loaded and card recognized, and all the drives are configured in JBOD mode, FreeNAS sees no drives at all.
Any ideas would be highly appreciated.
As I mentioned I tested with various flavors of Linux and the devices are visible with direct access. Also I tested with ESXI 6.7U2 which sees all drives as well.
This is the output of StorCLI on both ESXI/Linux:
StorCLI on FreeNAS fails to recognize the controller although the OS has the driver loaded and the device is recognized:
Another thing that came to my attention using StorCLI on both ESXi/Linux is that even though each drive shows as JBOD and is recognized in the OS StorCLI reports that the controller does not support JBOD:
Also based on the official product brief all controllers in the 9400 series except for 9440-8i support JBOD mode:
P.S. Last but not least also upgraded to the latest firmware available on Broadcom website. Didn't change anything.
Please, ideas!
I am running FreeNAS with LSI MegaRAID 9460-16i. I know you would say you should not run FreeNAS with a hardware RAID, but the case is that all my drives are set in JBOD mode. When I boot the same controller in various flavors of Linux and ESXI 6.7U2 all the drives are recognized correctly and have direct access.
In FreeNAS I can see the 9460-16i card recognized and the proper driver is already compiled in the kernel and I can see it loaded. The problem I have is that even though the driver is loaded and card recognized, and all the drives are configured in JBOD mode, FreeNAS sees no drives at all.
Any ideas would be highly appreciated.
As I mentioned I tested with various flavors of Linux and the devices are visible with direct access. Also I tested with ESXI 6.7U2 which sees all drives as well.
This is the output of StorCLI on both ESXI/Linux:
StorCLI on FreeNAS fails to recognize the controller although the OS has the driver loaded and the device is recognized:
Another thing that came to my attention using StorCLI on both ESXi/Linux is that even though each drive shows as JBOD and is recognized in the OS StorCLI reports that the controller does not support JBOD:
Also based on the official product brief all controllers in the 9400 series except for 9440-8i support JBOD mode:
P.S. Last but not least also upgraded to the latest firmware available on Broadcom website. Didn't change anything.
Please, ideas!