Okay hi guys :) Glad to be joining you all here as users of FreeNAS.
Just to state it right off, I'm not particularly concerned about the overall performance of this box. I built it from old components and stuff I had laying around. It's just for my home use and I'm trying to get away with it cheaply. Naturally however, the one part I specifically bought is the one that doesn't work: the RAID card.
What I purchased was this:
SYBA SY-PCI40010 PCI SATA II (3.0Gb/s) 4 Port RAID 0/1/5/10 JBOD Card
and it's specifications here:
http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=530
I did it because the build I'm running (Pentium D 2.8 Ghz, Asus P5VDC-MX, 2GB DDR2) has PCI slots that I thought I could use and one of the reviews was from a guy who said he had it working perfectly in FreeNAS. The successful review was from 2011 so I figured compatibility would only improve right?
It seems not to be. The Syba card clearly does work, it is visible in the BIOS and before I flashed it to the JBOD firmware version (at the suggestion of someone on here) I was able to fully access it's RAID firmware and see the connected disks. However, booting up into FreeNAS, none of the disks are detected and the controller seems to be completely ignored.
I can only assume this is because there isn't driver support for the chipset the card uses (SIL3124). Anyone have any suggestions or light to shed on the subject here? I had thought I saw a couple users who had successful builds using equivalent cards with the same chipset but I can no longer locate them. This chipset isn't listed on the FreeBSD HCL, so am I really just out of luck with this card?
Just to state it right off, I'm not particularly concerned about the overall performance of this box. I built it from old components and stuff I had laying around. It's just for my home use and I'm trying to get away with it cheaply. Naturally however, the one part I specifically bought is the one that doesn't work: the RAID card.
What I purchased was this:
SYBA SY-PCI40010 PCI SATA II (3.0Gb/s) 4 Port RAID 0/1/5/10 JBOD Card
and it's specifications here:
http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=530
I did it because the build I'm running (Pentium D 2.8 Ghz, Asus P5VDC-MX, 2GB DDR2) has PCI slots that I thought I could use and one of the reviews was from a guy who said he had it working perfectly in FreeNAS. The successful review was from 2011 so I figured compatibility would only improve right?
It seems not to be. The Syba card clearly does work, it is visible in the BIOS and before I flashed it to the JBOD firmware version (at the suggestion of someone on here) I was able to fully access it's RAID firmware and see the connected disks. However, booting up into FreeNAS, none of the disks are detected and the controller seems to be completely ignored.
I can only assume this is because there isn't driver support for the chipset the card uses (SIL3124). Anyone have any suggestions or light to shed on the subject here? I had thought I saw a couple users who had successful builds using equivalent cards with the same chipset but I can no longer locate them. This chipset isn't listed on the FreeBSD HCL, so am I really just out of luck with this card?