Hi guys
After having numerous USB sticks give me corruption errors i went and bought an SSD. Given most of the boot device space is wasted by FreeNAS i decided to try FreeBSD.
I started by exporting my FreeNAS zpool then physically removing the drives.
I got on my merry way installing and configuring FreeBSD on my shiny new SSD. When i had FreeBSD working I plugged in my storage array (3x4TB raidz) and booted up. I ran
zpool import
And much to my dismay it said:
No matter which disk i removed, when i ran zpool import it came back saying two drives were unavailable and thus the pool was unimportable. Truly quite bizarre so i plugged all three in and I had the same output as i pasted above.
Getting really concerned now I plugged in my FreeNAS usb stick and booted into FreeNAS. Imported the pool without issue.
I can't for the life of me figure out:
1. why when three drives are plugged in one in unavailable. And when any 2 of the three are plugged in only one is available.
2. Why can FreeNAS import and export the pool without issue?
EDIT:
Thought i should also include my hardware setup.
I'm using a an Asrock C2550D4I motherboard. The storage drives are connected to the Intel controller SATA 2 ports and the SSD (my freebsd install) is on the one of the Intel SATA3 ports.
After having numerous USB sticks give me corruption errors i went and bought an SSD. Given most of the boot device space is wasted by FreeNAS i decided to try FreeBSD.
I started by exporting my FreeNAS zpool then physically removing the drives.
I got on my merry way installing and configuring FreeBSD on my shiny new SSD. When i had FreeBSD working I plugged in my storage array (3x4TB raidz) and booted up. I ran
zpool import
And much to my dismay it said:
Strange because it was working fine a week ago. I can't read my drives s/n so i decided to just dc the power and sata cables of a drive then boot back up and go with trial and error till i found the problem drive. Here's where the strange things happened.
No matter which disk i removed, when i ran zpool import it came back saying two drives were unavailable and thus the pool was unimportable. Truly quite bizarre so i plugged all three in and I had the same output as i pasted above.
Getting really concerned now I plugged in my FreeNAS usb stick and booted into FreeNAS. Imported the pool without issue.
I can't for the life of me figure out:
1. why when three drives are plugged in one in unavailable. And when any 2 of the three are plugged in only one is available.
2. Why can FreeNAS import and export the pool without issue?
EDIT:
Thought i should also include my hardware setup.
I'm using a an Asrock C2550D4I motherboard. The storage drives are connected to the Intel controller SATA 2 ports and the SSD (my freebsd install) is on the one of the Intel SATA3 ports.
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