Drive Failed

[tclarke99]

Hi, I am new here but have been using FreeNAS for about 4 years. This is the first time my mirrored drives have had a failure. After replacing my drive and restarting the box I see the new drive in my View Disk window (ada2).

Then when I look at the drive in the Volume Status window is comes up like below.

Then I click "replace" and select ada2 from the dropdown menu and press OK. I get the following message in the log.


Jul 30 17:31:51 Nas1 notifier: swapoff: /dev/ada2p1.eli: No such file or directory
Jul 30 17:31:51 Nas1 notifier: geli: No such device: /dev/ada2p1.
Jul 30 17:31:51 Nas1 notifier: 1+0 records in
Jul 30 17:31:51 Nas1 notifier: 1+0 records out
Jul 30 17:31:51 Nas1 notifier: 1048576 bytes transferred in 0.007237 secs (144891827 bytes/sec)
Jul 30 17:31:51 Nas1 notifier: dd: /dev/ada2: short write on character device
Jul 30 17:31:51 Nas1 notifier: dd: /dev/ada2: end of device
Jul 30 17:31:51 Nas1 notifier: 5+0 records in
Jul 30 17:31:51 Nas1 notifier: 4+1 records out
Jul 30 17:31:51 Nas1 notifier: 4939776 bytes transferred in 0.030699 secs (160909920 bytes/sec)
Jul 30 17:31:52 Nas1 notifier: swapoff: /dev/ada2p1.eli: No such file or directory
Jul 30 17:31:52 Nas1 notifier: geli: No such device: /dev/ada2p1.
Jul 30 17:31:52 Nas1 manage.py: [middleware.exceptions:38] [MiddlewareError: Disk replacement failed: "invalid vdev specification, use '-f' to override the following errors:, /dev/gptid/4db4f4d3-1839-11e4-b035-2c768aade61e is part of active pool 'Disk2', "]

Any ideas?

Thank you

 

[cyberjock]

Did that disk have a partition on it? That looks like a disk that was already partitioned and the system is upset because you are going to lose the data already on the disk.

 

[tclarke99]

No its a new out of the box drive.

 

[cyberjock]

Is the disk actually good? Can you run short and long tests on it?

 

[tclarke99]

What is a good test to run? never had a problem with my FreeNAS boxes they just keep running....

I did try this one

fdisk /dev/ada2
******* Working on device /dev/ada2 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1938021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=1938021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 238 (0xee),(EFI GPT)
start 1, size 1953525167 (953869 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 2;
end: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>

 

[danb35]

You can find some suggestions for disk tests in this sticky thread, right in this very forum:
http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/building-burn-in-and-testing-your-freenas-system.17750/

 

[tclarke99]

Thanks for the link danb35... ran both tests and this is what came back

dd if=/dev/ada2 of=/dev/null bs=1048576
468239+0 records in
468239+0 records out
490984177664 bytes transferred in 2555.697346 secs (192113584 bytes/sec)

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada2 bs=1048576
25827+0 records in
25826+0 records out
27080523776 bytes transferred in 138.997993 secs (194826725 bytes/sec)

 

[tclarke99]

Well things are looking better now.... I have two drives online ada3 and ada2 the only problem is when I look at the details on ada2 its the old dead drives serial number

 

[cyberjock]

So follow the manual for replacing bad disks to completion. You didn't do the last few step(s). ;)

 

[tclarke99]

I was excited for about 2 minutes.... back to the same error as before. I get this when I do a replace disk

Jul 31 17:41:45 Nas1 notifier: swapoff: /dev/ada2p1.eli: No such file or directory
Jul 31 17:41:45 Nas1 notifier: geli: No such device: /dev/ada2p1.
Jul 31 17:41:45 Nas1 notifier: 1+0 records in
Jul 31 17:41:45 Nas1 notifier: 1+0 records out
Jul 31 17:41:45 Nas1 notifier: 1048576 bytes transferred in 0.007083 secs (148042497 bytes/sec)
Jul 31 17:41:45 Nas1 notifier: dd: /dev/ada2: short write on character device
Jul 31 17:41:45 Nas1 notifier: dd: /dev/ada2: end of device
Jul 31 17:41:45 Nas1 notifier: 5+0 records in
Jul 31 17:41:45 Nas1 notifier: 4+1 records out
Jul 31 17:41:45 Nas1 notifier: 4939776 bytes transferred in 0.067319 secs (73378461 bytes/sec)
Jul 31 17:41:46 Nas1 notifier: swapoff: /dev/ada2p1.eli: No such file or directory
Jul 31 17:41:46 Nas1 notifier: geli: No such device: /dev/ada2p1.
Jul 31 17:41:46 Nas1 manage.py: [middleware.exceptions:38] [MiddlewareError: Disk replacement failed: "invalid vdev specification, use '-f' to override the following errors:, /dev/gptid/d9ce770e-1903-11e4-bafa-2c768aade61e is part of active pool 'Disk2', "]