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    ESXi 5 with an IBM m1015

    Thank you very much! I edited loader.conf and that did it; it works perfectly! Granted, I had to set it to a single core machine. I orginally had it to be a single socket dual core emulation but after the loader.conf edit there was an a bunch of Interrupt storm messages on irq18. Google told me...
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    ESXi 5 with an IBM m1015

    Small update, I was able to boot freenas from the thumbdrive using the hba and no breakout cables. It even says the volume is healthy. I wasn't able to do this before the IT mode flash. So this tells me it has something to do with ESXi passing the hba to the virtual freenas, right?
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    ESXi 5 with an IBM m1015

    One of the first things I read but it didn't so anything for me. I have flashed the m1015 into IT Mode. It only took me 2 motherboard tries! But now virtual FreeNAS doesn't boot all the way. It hangs saying: run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config...
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    ESXi 5 with an IBM m1015

    Thanks, I will try this after work today.
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    ESXi 5 with an IBM m1015

    I had mistakenly bought those first and they didn't work. I then found out I needed reverse because I'm not connecting the hba directly to the disks. The disks are plugged into a backplane as part of the case I have (RPC-4220) then either to the mobo sata (reverse breakout) or to the hba...
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    ESXi 5 with an IBM m1015

    More info: I've been using these reverse breakout cables from the backplane (I have an rpc-4220) to the motherboard while booting FreeNAS from a thumb drive. I just tried to boot FreeNAS from a thumb drive but using the hba and no breakout cables... it did not see any drives. So this leads me to...
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    ESXi 5 with an IBM m1015

    Thanks for all the replies. I had already flashed it to latest firmware. Though, I was able to pull out the m1015 and install ESXi 5 then put back the hba. I was even able to mark it as passthrough and installed FreeNAS as a virtual OS. I then edited the settings for it in vSphere and passed it...
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    ESXi 5 with an IBM m1015

    Setup: cpu: core i7 2600 mobo: ASRock Extreme4 Gen3 ram: 16gb ddr3 hdd: 6x 2tb seagate green (already has zfs courtesy of FreeNAS) raid card: IBM m1015 So I recently purchased an m1015 from ebay as recommended to me and since it has arrived I have hit a wall trying to get ESXi 5 to...
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    Expanding my FreeNAS Box

    Interesting, http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0740.html shows it as 16. But I see your link shows it to be 32.
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    Expanding my FreeNAS Box

    I have to say I'm surprised at how much cheaper those are, thanks for your recommendation. I noticed, though, that it supports up to 16 SAS/Sata devices. Does that mean that even with a SAS expander it would not recognize past 16 hdd's? If so, If I later got a second m1015 would that allow...
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    Expanding my FreeNAS Box

    Hello, I have a freenas box that I've been using as home storage for many months and am nearing its max capacity. I'm getting ready to buy more drives, as prices come back down, to give me some more space. Currently my set up is: mobo: GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 cpu: core i7 2600 (overkill I know but I...
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