Comments on: Using freeNAS for Disaster Recovery – Part 2

By: Mark Briggs

Mark Briggs — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:20:45 +0000

I have just bought EXACTLY the same setup as yours (Jetway JNC92 Motherboard & Jetway SATA II Daughterboard), I am running FreeNAS from a 1GB Transcend Flash drive and all works fine but I cannot get FreeNAS (0.7.1) to recognise the disks attached to the Jetway SATA II Daughterboard! Truth is I don’t particularly want to use the Hardware RAID features of the board (am happy with the software RAID options within FreeNAS) – but I do obviously need to see the disks attached to the Jetway Daughterboard within FreeNAS.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark

By: Buzz

Buzz — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:50:20 +0000

@SweeneNZ

I’m afraid not, even without defining hardware RAID and each device reporting itself as SATA/SCSI I could not get this resolved,

I’ve been looking at building an alternative cut down CentOS 5 deploy, however this ran into the same issues due to the kernel level drivers, I have a bug report in with redhat and a tirade of things to try, my current schedule however due to the time of year has prevented me from making progress.

Looking more like the new year at this point, the hardware is currently sat in my serveroom awaiting time to build it.

Cheers

Buzz

By: SweeneNZ

SweeneNZ — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:14:00 +0000

Hi, Did you resolve the RAID issue? I am keen to here how you enabled the RAID Driver so it was visible in the Web interface as it is not clear in the FreeNAS Forum. I am currently running a FreeNAS on version 0.69 as the only drivers I can get for the Promise RAID Controller are for version 6 of FreeBSD and are looking for alternatives and I like the look of the Jetway RAID controller. Thanks. -Derek.

By: techlife

techlife — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:07:30 +0000

I just finished building the exact same system as you over the weekend with different drives. I went with an IDE Flash module for the OS drive cause that leaves the 2 onbaord sata ports for 2x laptop drives (one mounted where the case supports, and there’s an addon that converts the cdrom slot into another 2.5″ drive mount).
I also saw your post on FreeNAS forums about the Marvell controller – FYI, you’ll pull hair out trying to get that damn thing to work. There’s a lot of talk I’ve read on the net about how that Marvell controller is garbage. Grab a Promise SATA300 TX4 controller instead and junk the Marvell. I spent waaaaay too much time spent installing OpenSolaris, Openfiler, and FreeNAS over and over again, trying to get at least some sort of NAS working, and that Promise controller card was a sigh of relief. Native support in FreeNAS, and it’s not much bigger than the Jetway addon card. I was up and running with a zfs raidz1, iscsi targets and smb shares in less than 30mins. Cheers!