I need to add drives to one of my FreeNAS 8.3.1 boxes. This machine has an “Intel RAID” card in it. I don’t want to use the Intel RAID, I want just a bunch of disks that I can plop a mirror on top of. The BIOS utility doesn’t give me the “just a bunch of disks” option. So I boot into FreeNAS, insert the drives, and the console shows:
Jul 10 10:25:40 datastore5 kernel: mfi0: 6904 (458317539s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 0e(e0xfc/s0)
Jul 10 10:25:40 datastore5 kernel: mfi0: MFI_DCMD_PD_LIST_QUERY...
Published on July 11, 2014 06:17