My SATA drives are still reporting SATA150!

Could you add “auto-notify” when new posts are made? I don’t get updates when someone posts to a thread I’ve posted to. It’s a nice feature. I forget to go back and check.

Please feel free to delete this post.

Sorry for the late reply. I just installed it and never had any problems. It just worked. Well, aside from the fact that I could only use 10/100. Also, the SATA controller for the lower four bays didn’t work, as minos pointed out above.

I believe I used FreeNAS 0.69.1.

I agree the NSD7800 is more or less the perfect hardware for FreeNAS.

If you don’t like Windows and still can’t get FreeNAS to work, try using OpenFiler, which is based on Linux. It should work nicely too and probably won’t give you as many hardware headaches.

Does not seem to properly recognize the VIA Velocity VT6130 Gigabit Ethernet Controller, and though I’m allowed to manually “Set LAN IP address”, there’s no way to advance with “Assign Interface”. Only “Auto” option is enabled, and though unplugging and plugging back, does not find link or is able to ping any IP on the network.

(Martin, how did you manage to make it work?)

It’s a real pity as FreeNAS would be the damn perfect OS for this box. I resist to install WHS as I distrust it’s filesystems, but after tryng OpenSolaris and Ubuntu Server (both working, but a lot of network issues ) I’m stuck with this box from VIA.

Unfortunatily VIA plugged in a second SATA controller from Marvall and this is not supported – therefore you can only use the first 4 bays on the VIA controller with freeNAS.

a patch would be great .

for more infos or testing request plz send me an email at stefan [dot] s [at] gmx [dot] at.