Cannot Create Volume, no errors

[chaucer]

FreeNAS
Build FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201503200528
Platform AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor, GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-USB3 Motherboard
Memory 7636MB
Boot 32GB USB

PROBLEM: Cannot create a Volume of any size. I've tried doing this through the wizard and through the manual setup.

Drives - Are all WDC Green 1 Tb besides for the 500 Gb which is a Seagate 10k rpm drive
ada1 - 1tb
ada2 - 1tb
ada3 - 1tb
ada4 - 1tb
ada5 - 1tb
ada6 - 1tb
ada0 - 500 Gb - I've tried including this as a "Cache" drive or not include it at all and it doesnt matter.

Additional Info: I've tried creating a RAID-Z and stripe and it will not create. Encryption is not checked. The Volume name is DATAVOL.

I click Add volume and nothing happens. It just goes back to the screen that I started on. There are no error messages. I have waited several days to see if it would take that long to create but nothing happens.

Any suggestions on what I can do?

 

[DrKK]

Well here's some ideas.

I assume I don't need to tell you that the motherboard and processor you've chosen are appalling choices for FreeNAS, so I won't.

If you have previously used these drives, they may have partition tables on them still. Our experience is that previously existing partition tables can cause the drives to not be formattable. Try to wipe out the partition tables in Windows using diskpart, or in your favorite Linux, or whatever you like.

If that doesn't work, we'll take it from there.

 

[chaucer]

The drives were used previously, however, I had already removed their partitions. I've also tried creating partitions and formatting them as FAT32 and ext4. These give the same results.

Is there a way to view the log for when I click Add volume? Should there be an error message somewhere saying what is going wrong?

 

[chaucer]

I'm not sure if this will help, but this is how my disks are now.

Code:

[root@freenas ~]# gpart show                                                                                                      
=>      34  60565949  da0  GPT  (28G)                                                                                             
        34      1024    1  bios-boot  (512k)                                                                                      
      1058         6       - free -  (3.0k)                                                                                       
      1064  60564912    2  freebsd-zfs  (28G)                                                                                     
  60565976         7       - free -  (3.5k)                                                                                       
=>        34  1953525101  ada1  GPT  (931G)                                                                                       
          34          94        - free -  (47k)                                                                                   
         128     4194304     1  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)                                                                              
     4194432  1949330696     2  freebsd-zfs  (929G)                                                                               
  1953525128           7        - free -  (3.5k)                                                                                  
=>        34  1953525101  ada2  GPT  (931G)                                                                                       
          34          94        - free -  (47k)                                                                                   
         128     4194304     1  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)                                                                              
     4194432  1949330696     2  freebsd-zfs  (929G)                                                                               
  1953525128           7        - free -  (3.5k)                                                                                  
=>        34  1953525101  ada3  GPT  (931G)                                                                                       
          34          94        - free -  (47k)                                                                                   
         128     4194304     1  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)                                                                              
     4194432  1949330696     2  freebsd-zfs  (929G)                                                                               
  1953525128           7        - free -  (3.5k)                                                                                  
=>        34  1953525101  ada4  GPT  (931G)                                                                                       
          34          94        - free -  (47k)                                                                                   
         128     4194304     1  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)                                                                              
     4194432  1949330696     2  freebsd-zfs  (929G)                                                                               
  1953525128           7        - free -  (3.5k)                                                                                  
=>        34  1953525101  ada5  GPT  (931G)                                                                                       
          34          94        - free -  (47k)                                                                                   
         128     4194304     1  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)                                                                              
     4194432  1949330696     2  freebsd-zfs  (929G)                                                                               
  1953525128           7        - free -  (3.5k)                                                                                  
=>        34  1953525101  ada6  GPT  (931G)                                                                                       
          34          94        - free -  (47k)                                                                                   
         128     4194304     1  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)                                                                              
     4194432  1949330696     2  freebsd-zfs  (929G)                                                                               
  1953525128           7        - free -  (3.5k)                                                                                  
=>       34  976773101  ada0  GPT  (465G)                                                                                         
         34         94        - free -  (47k)                                                                                     
        128    4194304     1  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)                                                                                
    4194432  972578696     2  freebsd-zfs  (463G)                                                                                 
  976773128          7        - free -  (3.5k)                                                                                    

[root@freenas ~]# ls /dev/ada*                                                                                                    
/dev/ada0       /dev/ada1       /dev/ada2       /dev/ada3       /dev/ada4       /dev/ada5       /dev/ada6                         
/dev/ada0p1     /dev/ada1p1     /dev/ada2p1     /dev/ada3p1     /dev/ada4p1     /dev/ada5p1     /dev/ada6p1                       
/dev/ada0p2     /dev/ada1p2     /dev/ada2p2     /dev/ada3p2     /dev/ada4p2     /dev/ada5p2     /dev/ada6p2                       
[root@freenas ~]#

 

[BigDave]

I'm confused, how exactly have you connected 7 disks to a board with 6 SATA ports?

 

[danb35]

Those disks are all set up as ZFS disks for FreeNAS. What do 'zpool status' and 'zpool import' show?

 

[chaucer]

BigDave, dont let it confuse you. I have a PCI SATA card that has the small 500 GB drive connected to it.

Dan,
Here is the output. zpool import doesnt return anything. However, the zpool status returns the name of one of my earlier attempts to get the volume set up. I believe this was the attempt that didnt include the 500 GB drive as the cache drive. I cant remember if this was with the parity disk or not. I would prefer to have the parity disk and the cache drive if possible. This volume does not show up in the View Volumes or Volume Manager.

Code:

[root@freenas ~]# zpool status                                                                                                     
  pool: NASserver                                                                                                                  
state: ONLINE                                                                                                                     
  scan: none requested                                                                                                             
config:                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                   
        NAME                                            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM                                                 
        NASserver                                       ONLINE       0     0     0                                                 
          raidz1-0                                      ONLINE       0     0     0                                                 
            gptid/093b62f0-d410-11e4-abe6-fcaa14869927  ONLINE       0     0     0                                                 
            gptid/09963373-d410-11e4-abe6-fcaa14869927  ONLINE       0     0     0                                                 
            gptid/09eb61e4-d410-11e4-abe6-fcaa14869927  ONLINE       0     0     0                                                 
            gptid/0a465e7b-d410-11e4-abe6-fcaa14869927  ONLINE       0     0     0                                                 
            gptid/0a9fb48a-d410-11e4-abe6-fcaa14869927  ONLINE       0     0     0                                                 
            gptid/0b4a79b2-d410-11e4-abe6-fcaa14869927  ONLINE       0     0     0                                                 
                                                                                                                                   
errors: No known data errors                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                   
  pool: freenas-boot                                                                                                               
state: ONLINE                                                                                                                     
  scan: none requested                                                                                                             
config:                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                   
        NAME                                          STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM                                                   
        freenas-boot                                  ONLINE       0     0     0                                                   
          gptid/4441e8b4-d44f-11e4-8e0d-fcaa14869927  ONLINE       0     0     0                                                   
                                                                                                                                   
errors: No known data errors       

[root@freenas ~]# zpool import                                                                                                     
[root@freenas ~]# 

 

[danb35]

OK, you did create a volume, but for some reason it isn't showing in the GUI. From the CLI, do 'zpool export NASserver', then use the "Import Volume" button in the GUI. If you don't like the way this one was created, you can then export/detach it from the GUI and check the box for "mark disks as new".

 

[chaucer]

that worked. And when I recreated it, it displayed properly in the GUI.

Thanks for the help.

 

[DrKK]

This is so odd. Do we understand what actually happened here to cause the OP's problem?

 

[Ericloewe]

My best guess is an issue with the AHCI driver which throws an exception that ends up being silently caught somewhere in the middleware without actually being taken care of.

Either that or FreeNAS really needs those extra few hundred MB of RAM (not exactly likely) or the OS is corrupted.

 

[gpsguy]

Please read cyberjock' guide - you can links to it in his signature and Ericloewe's signature.

Parity isn't on just one drive - it's spread across all the drives in a vdev. If you are using RAIDZ1 (not recommended these days) you can suffer the loss of any (one) disk and not lose your data.

Forget about using a disk for cache. Before even thinking about adding cache - you'd need to add a LOT more RAM. And a the drive would be SSD.


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