mankyd
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- May 3, 2012
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I have a drive that was about 3 years old, hosting a single ZFS partition all by itself. The other day, I noticed that it was misbehaving - FreeNAS was reporting that the status of the drive was "Unknown", and I couldn't get any other useful info from it.
I tried mounting via NFS. Generally speaking, I would get I/O errors. But if I was patient (i.e. I'd run "ls", then wait 10 minutes, then run "ls" again) I could see the data on the drive over the network.
I finally broke down and purchased a bunch of new drives to replace it with via RAID. I powered down the machine (probably my biggest mistake); installed the new hardware; and then powered everything back up.
Now the machine fails to completely boot. I see lots of the following error messages repeated over and over and over: "rescan already queued". If I leave the old drive unplugged, it boots fine, and the new drives show up. As soon as I hot-plug the new drive in, the error messages appear and the machine starts slowing down (though it is somewhat responsive). I should add that the new drives are plugged into a new, separate, SATA controller. The malfunctioning drive is plugged into the motherboard.
How can I recover what's on the old drive. I'm running FreeNAS 8.3.
I tried mounting via NFS. Generally speaking, I would get I/O errors. But if I was patient (i.e. I'd run "ls", then wait 10 minutes, then run "ls" again) I could see the data on the drive over the network.
I finally broke down and purchased a bunch of new drives to replace it with via RAID. I powered down the machine (probably my biggest mistake); installed the new hardware; and then powered everything back up.
Now the machine fails to completely boot. I see lots of the following error messages repeated over and over and over: "rescan already queued". If I leave the old drive unplugged, it boots fine, and the new drives show up. As soon as I hot-plug the new drive in, the error messages appear and the machine starts slowing down (though it is somewhat responsive). I should add that the new drives are plugged into a new, separate, SATA controller. The malfunctioning drive is plugged into the motherboard.
How can I recover what's on the old drive. I'm running FreeNAS 8.3.