XigmaNAS

So I first tried freenas 9.3 and was able to get my usb3 ports working by following these instructions:

https://jonrozier.com/2014/03/08/enable ... nas-9-2-x/

create a new Turnable value and reset my machine. Simply adding xhci_load with a value of YES

Once I did that Freenas was able to detect my hard drive. Once I got that working then I found out that freenas has disabled mounting and sharing NTFS partions in this version ( have a 3 tarabyte external with all my tv shows). Thats when I switched over to NAS4Free distro.

I tried adding xhci_load with value of YES in system/advanced/loader.conf but it still wont recognize the usb external drive unless i switch it to a usb 2 port. I would like to get this working without going into the bios and disabling xhci support which will knock down the ports to usb2 speeded.

Any Ideas?

neither using usb to attach disks (no smart monitoring. various other problems) nor using ntfs for more than transfering data of (possible data corruption) is a good idea.

mounting NTFS drives read only is allowed.
it is to facilitate transfer of files to the N4F's UFS or ZFS storage
one uses it for other functions at your own substantial risk.

one can mount a single UFS partitioned drive for non redundant storage of otherwise replaceable data.
it will be less fragile than NTFS storage [IMHO]

don't really care about my media drive. I already have a raidZ1 with 3 disks for my important info. I was able to mount my external drive in USB2 and share it in NTFS with r/w permissions.

SO is it possible to get USB3 working like it does in freenas?

its more of a freebsd thing

see
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/usb-disks.html

i was using a USB3 drive to create backup zfs pool and this helped. not sure if it is related or applies to 10.x anymore

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/free ... 12297.html