Unable to see drives in FreeNAS 8 beta 3

[Grimkill]

I am having several issues.
I had a rebooting issue when transferring large files but that has been trumped by my drives not showing up when creating a volume.

I had to switch motherboards and after booting up again the drives no longer show in GUI. I can see that the motherboard shows them and I can also see the drives using CLI and FDISK. da0 da0s1 da0s1a da0s2 da0s3 da0s4.

I found a post saying I need to format the drives http://wiki.freenas.org/faq:0129

But my experience using Unix is very limited. Can someone dumb down the process to wipe the hard drives using CLI please.

I am using FreeNAS Beta 8 and the gear in my profile.

 

[Grimkill]

ASUS M2NPV-VM
AMD Athlon X2
Corsair XMS 5Gb 2x2GB and 2x512Mb
2x Syba SY-PCI40010
5x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB
FreeNAS 8

 

[ProtoSD]

Grimkill,

From what you posted you said:

I can also see the drives using CLI and FDISK. da0 da0s1 da0s1a da0s2 da0s3 da0s4.

But "da0" is just one disk with several 'slices' (partitions), you should see something like da0, da1 da2, da3, da4, if you have 5 disks. The disk you are seeing is actually your flash drive, that looks like a typical FreeNAS layout.

If you do 'dmesg | more' from the CLI (without the quotes), and look through it, somewhere close to the end you should see your disks listed and what their device names are. There will be several lines for each disk. Post back and tell us what you see.

 

[Grimkill]

Not Showing

The da1,2,3,4 are not showing. I tried doing a quick format on all 5 drives using the SATA controller but that did not help either. I have another drive with winXP on it, should I try formatting the drives in XP then try again? Or am I using non supported hardware?

I will be slow to respond, I am getting relocated again.

 

[ProtoSD]

No, don't try formatting them in XP again, it won't help. What do you see when you first turn on your PC? Do the drives show up in POST messages (Power On Self Test)?? What about if you go into the BIOS setup? Depending on the type of your BIOS there should be a screen in the setup where you can see which drives your motherboard detects. If the drives show up in there, but not in FreeNAS, then it's possible your motherboard/disk controller isn't supported. Can you post your motherboard model and if you are using the on board disk controller or an add-on controller?

 

[Grimkill]

My Swagg

Controllers: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124028
Hard Drives: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...14&cm_re=asus_m2npv-vm-_-13-131-014-_-Product
1GB Mem: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145566
4GB Mem: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184

The Sata Controllers and drives show in POST.
I know the Sata Controller and Drives were working (on a ECS NFORCE6M-A http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135062).
I had the MB die on me and had to scavenge my HTPC to try and get my data off the NAS. How could I post the dmesg log here to have you verify? I have PuTTy working on a computer. I am able to ssh into FreeNAS.

 

[Grimkill]

Got EMAIL from Syba

Before I bought the Sata cards I called and emailed Syba....the phone call was a bad idea but I got an email saying the cards were compatible with FreeBSD despite what the hardware compatibility said. This was what moved me towards the Syba cards verus 2x Highpoint 1740 cards (that and I could get both Syba cards for the price of one Highpoint).

Which must be true since I was able to build a Raidz2 array and fill it with 1TB of junk.

 

[ProtoSD]

You could run dmesg and save the output to a file and then post that file here as an attachment. For example: 'dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.txt' (without the quotes). You then need to download that file with Putty to your PC so you can attach it to the post here. Sorry I don't have/use Putty so I can't tell you the steps, but if you can't figure it out post back and someone can tell you or I'll help you figure it out.

 

[Grimkill]

Well I fixed it sorta.
I got new Swagg
ASUS P8P67 LE
i-5 2500k
8GB Corsair
HAF 912 with 4x Scythe Fans
iStar 3x5.25 to 5x3.5 cage with modified 120mm Scythe Fan
10x1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 drives
2 Syba 4 port PCI to Sata cards
Intel PWLA8391GT NIC

The old MB was not compatible with the Syba cards, the new one has no problems.
5 drives are in one mount in raidz2 working from MB and the other 5 are working in raidz2 from the Syba cards on a separate mount.

Thanks for all the help.
The other MB went back to being a HTPC.

I also added a TRENDnet TEG-S16DG to the mix and have seen much better results on file transfers.