XigmaNAS

I installed NAS4Free 9.1.0.1.636 on my machine. Using a Supermicro PDSBM-LN2 motherboard and the two onboard NICs. It runs fine and see both NICs (em0 and em1) when it has 2G RAM installed. When I put another 2G ram in, the primary NIC doesn't get seen and the secondary becomes em0. If I take it back to 2G it works again.

This board only has 2 DIMM slots. It had 2x1G chips, I switched to 2x 2G chips. No go. But with one 2G chip it works again so doesn't seem like weird RAM. RAM is brand new.

I also had a FreeNAS 8.3 running on this box with a different USB stick... it sees both NIC's with 4G RAM installed so doesn't seem like it's a hardware issue. (trying NAS4Free because FreenNAS was so slow)


Seems strange to me... any ideas?

Sounds like its your mobo. Someone here.. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1461685 had the same issue of adding in more ram which somehow killed the nic. I have ran into a couple machines where the onboard nic would not work at all in nas4free.

I'm curious as to why you think FreeNAS was too slow.. perhaps it was an older machine with dying hard drives? I switched from freenas 7 to nas4free and have no speed difference because its setup the same as the other one was. Often a pci nic will work better than the built in onboard.. but it depends on what the manufacturer uses. You could have an unsupported nic in your mobo thats why nas4free flips out when you added more ram. Others on here have reported problems with realtek nics.. so if you get one I'd suggest going with an intel with either 1 port or 2 ports.. depends on what your doing and if you have a switch for lagg.