Ok, newbee needs help with disapearing HDD.

[Yamamoto]

Hello, guys,
so I have a problem...

What I did so far:
I burned image FreeNAS-9.2.1-RELEASE-x86 (bd35c86) or FreeNAS-9.2.1.1-RELEASE-x64 (tried both) to 4 Gb USB Stick.
Then I transfered image from USB stick to 2 Gb Flash Drive with

Code:

dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/ada0 bs=2048k 

Restarted from new boot image.
Created UFS volume on my 1 Tb HDD.
Shared CIFS http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/CIFS_Shares#Creating_CIFS_Shares all worked just fine. WIN client could connect/copy. Was on my way to restart and instal DLNA toys.

But... it was only fine till first restart after creating volume. After restart my volume looks like this:
Used: 807 KiB (105%); Available: -50176; Size: 823,5 KiB; Status: Unknown
I got alert: WARNING: The volume Seagate (UFS) status is UNKNOWN
Cant see disk in disks. No letter assigned to add/import volume. Shell also cant see HDD with

Code:

# egrep ada. | da. | ad. /var/run/dmesg.boot

Only BIOS can see HDD.

The only way to make it back to life with my lack of FreeBSD knowlage is to connect it to my WIN client and format it back to NTFS... Whats going on? Then I can do it all over again and be happy.. till first restart.

P.S. Btw my processors Instruction set is x86-64 What install then should I use 64 or 32 bit?

My Home Media NAS project HP T5570: VIA Nano U3500@1000MHz / VX900 / 2 Gb RAM /2 Gb Flash / Seagate Momentus Spinpoint 1 TB ST1000LM024

 

[cyberjock]

I'm sorry.. I have zero clue what you are doing.. why would you even do this:

Code:

dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/ada0 bs=2048k

That literally read from the USB drive and wrote back to itself. No value whatsoever.

ALso, your Via Nano CPU is far from anything remotely recommended for FreeNAS. There were a small Via Nano discussion years ago. The end result if I'm remembering correctly is that the CPU and its architecture just isn't well supported with FreeBSD. Go with an Intel/AMD solution and see if the problems continue.

 

[Yamamoto]

Code:

[root@freenas ~]# egrep da. /var/run/dmesg.boot FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 ada0: <2GB ATA Flash Disk AD B61FK> ATA-6 SATA 1.x device ada0: Serial Number C121100108A1Yj6C4BHp ada0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA4, PIO 512bytes) ada0: 1953MB (4000752 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 3969C) ada0: Previously was known as ad0 ada1 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 1 lun 0 ada1: <ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB 2AR10002> ATA-8 SATA 2.x device ada1: Serial Number S2R8J9DF101830 ada1: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) ada1: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada1: Previously was known as ad1 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus3 target 0 lun 0 da0: <SMI USB DISK 1100> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: Serial Number AA00000000001414 da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 3797MB (7777152 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 484C) da0: quirks=0x3<NO_SYNC_CACHE,NO_6_BYTE> [root@freenas ~]#

From my point of view my code is fine.

What am I interested in is energy saving home NAS - my config is only 18 watt.
So from what you said conclusion is next: FreeBSD is unstable system with no support for x86 set 64 bit processors.
Is that what you mean? Coz there are no bad or good trademarks. x86-64 means x86-64.

Anyway my problem is not with processor support.. FreeNAS runs ok, but cant see UFS HDD / volume it created before restart.

 

[cyberjock]

There's SOOOOO much more to a computer than a CPU and it's architecture. You need to understand that.

Good luck to you though! I'm sure you'll learn this lesson the hard way...

 

[DaWauZ]

Hi checked so far with a T5570, and have the same problems.
I do think the sata controller istn't supported by freenas. I have tested an T5740 with atom and intel chips, and the same disk works fine with it.