Hey guys! I recently purchased a Dell r720 off facebook, and now that I am messing with it, I see that the drives go directly from the backplane to a slot in the MOBO, with the raid card beside it. I asked in the LinusTechTips forums if I would be able to just disable the raid card for the drives to work with ZFS, and one suggested that even though the cable goes into the MOBO, it still may be forced through the raid card internally. He also suggested that if I turn the raid card to AHCI mode in the bios, that that should work. How should I go about setting this up for Freenas?
Image of the raid card - https://imgur.com/a/3h7SjMj
Image of BIOS settings - https://imgur.com/a/Ecq5wpX
Image of the raid card - https://imgur.com/a/3h7SjMj
Image of BIOS settings - https://imgur.com/a/Ecq5wpX
- Motherboard make and model - Unsure
- CPU make and model - Intel E5 2640 x2
- RAM quantity - 32
- Hard drives, quantity, model numbers, and RAID configuration, including boot drives - Hard drives not yet installed, USB bootdrive
- Hard disk controllers - Unsure
- Network cards - Unsure