T5000(T5525) + FreeNAS

Dirty_Chien

Hi Guys!

I have got an HP E-PC S10 at home with FreeNAS 7 and it works perfectly. So I have decided to buy a HP T5525 and try the same. But I have stucked at the installing. Can someone help me with this, how can I install FreeNAS 7 on it?

23n1th

More info needed.

spud17

Glad to see you've started a new thread.

Bit more info re problems needed.

t5000 is slightly misleading, it's a seperate line, but gets used for any t5***

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First off, I *think* you'll have a problem installing it to a t5525. Others may know different.

Assuming they are similar, I have a t5520 and the spec is marginal, and I could not install FreeNAS 7 because it throws up an error about the TEMP sensor.

Also the flash is too small and needs to be converted using a cf card/44pin adapter and ide lead, along with a suitable cf card, RAM is probably fixed and therefore not upgradable.

Dirty_Chien

T5525 has:
VIA Eden ESP 8000 (800MHz)
128 MB RAM (16 MB reserved for the video)
256 MB flash drive

and as I could see the FreeNAS needs the following:

Motherboard with x86 processor
128 MB RAM
32 MB free disk space

for the first sight it matches the minimum.
It has problems with the temp:

READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 1 d 12 0 0 1 0
CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
HARDWARE FAILURE asc:3e,2
Timeout on logical unit
Retrying Command (per Sense Data)
acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd, ignored (-247.7C)

but after that it continues:

Manual root filesystem specification:
<fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
eg. ufs:da0s1a
? List valid disk boot devices
<empty line> Abort manual input

Can we solve that somehow? Or the only hope is to replace the Flash with a CF and install FreeNAS8? Or maybe after that we have replaced the Flash with a CF the temp problem will be solved?

spud17

FreeNAS 7 requirements
http://wiki.freenas.org/documentation:setup_and_user_guide:hardware_requirements

READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 1 d 12 0 0 1 0
CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
HARDWARE FAILURE asc:3e,2
Timeout on logical unit
Retrying Command (per Sense Data)
acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd, ignored (-247.7C)

That's the same error as I was getting with the 5520, (BTW same processor, but less ram and smaller flash). It's ages since I played with that 5520 + FreeNAS 7, but I think I used a 256MB flash in a t5000 (1GHz), no error in that situation, then altered the /etc/sysctl.conf using the solution at,

http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-11882.html

and finally put the flash back in the 5520. It worked, but struggled.
One advantage of a non-Windows system is that it doesn't complain too much if hardware changes.:)

I can't see that a cf card will be of any advantage.

There could be a way to install under Windows, I've not tried it, but,

http://www.freenaskb.info/kb/?View=entry&EntryID=296

As to using FreeNAS 8, that's a completely different thing, 2GB just for the OS, and it's no longer the hobbyist choice. Comparison table below,

http://www.freenas.org/category/version-comparison

spud17

Forgot to mention that some have used the no apci from the initial boot options. Didn't work for me though.