8 TB USB Drive Detected as 1.4 TB

[Busthead]

Running FreeNAS-11.1-U2. How do I remediate?

Thx

 

[gpsguy]

First of all, FreeNAS 11.1-U4 is the latest. Upgrade to it.

Second, we don't recommend USB hard drives for storage. The interface is unreliable.

You might be able to schuck the drive and connect it directly to a SATA port.

Please post your detailed hardware information- it might not be compatible with 8TB drives.

 

[Inxsible]

Running FreeNAS-11.1-U2. How do I remediate?

Thx

Boo ! You just haven't provided any information for anyone to help you out. As @gpsguy mentioned, are you using external drives as storage?

 

[Busthead]

Upgrading without a known fix for the issue at hand is asking for trouble given the all the things that can go wrong with an upgrade.

Are you saying that FreeBSD's implementation of the USB standard is unreliable because last I checked, USB worked fine for billions of peripherals on billions of systems around the world...

All on-board SATA ports are occupied.

My mother board is an abit AN52.

Should I partition and format the drive on another system before connecting to FreeNAS?

I'm happy getting to the command line if that will yield info to help resolve.

 

[gpsguy]

I requested detailed hardware information, per the forum rules at the top of the page.

If you look at that page, it says "Hardware information is extremely important when diagnosing problems. This includes:"

motherboard make and model
CPU make and model
RAM quantity
hard drives, quantity, model numbers, and RAID configuration
hard disk controllers
network cards

My mother board is an abit AN52

 

[Jailer]

My mother board is an abit AN52.

I hope you're not storing anything important or valuable using this equipment. If so I hope you have good backups.

 

[Busthead]

abit AN52
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
8 GB RAM
The drive I'm attempting to connect via USB is a ST8000VN0022
On-board disk controllers
On-board network card

 

[Inxsible]

So it seems you are using non-recommended hardware. That board seems to have 4 SATA ports and 1 PATA port. You haven't answered the question about your pool structure/RAID configuration. You mentioned that all 4 of your onboard SATA ports were in use. Are they in use by 4 HDDs or are you running a CD/DVD drive off it? This drive that you are trying to connect using the USB -- is that part of the RAID or are you just trying to connect a USB drive to transfer data?
You are killing us over here!!

On-board network card

Are these Intel LANs?

 

[Busthead]

No ZFS pool. Four SATA CD drives

The USB drive that I am trying to connect isn't being used for anything. I just want to connect it and have it be recognized at the correct capacity.

From dmesg:

pid 1528 (syslog-ng), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
ugen1.2: <JMicron JM20336 SATA, USB Combo> at usbus1
umass0 on uhub0
umass0: <Bulk-In, Bulk-Out Interface> on usbus1
umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x8100
umass0:7:0: Attached to scbus7
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus7 target 0 lun 0
da0: <ST8000VN 0022-2EL112 > Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: Serial Number A16888888888
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 1339429MB (2743151280 512 byte sectors)
da0: quirks=0x2<NO_6_BYTE>
GEOM_PART: integrity check failed (da0, GPT)
ugen1.2: <JMicron JM20336 SATA, USB Combo> at usbus1 (disconnected)
umass0: at uhub0, port 1, addr 2 (disconnected)
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus7 target 0 lun 0
da0: <ST8000VN 0022-2EL112 > s/n A16888888888 detached
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Periph destroyed
umass0: detached
ugen1.2: <JMicron JM20336 SATA, USB Combo> at usbus1
umass0 on uhub0
umass0: <Bulk-In, Bulk-Out Interface> on usbus1
umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x8100
umass0:7:0: Attached to scbus7
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus7 target 0 lun 0
da0: <ST8000VN 0022-2EL112 > Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: Serial Number A16888888888
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 1339429MB (2743151280 512 byte sectors)
da0: quirks=0x2<NO_6_BYTE>
GEOM_PART: integrity check failed (da0, GPT)
ugen1.2: <JMicron JM20336 SATA, USB Combo> at usbus1 (disconnected)
umass0: at uhub0, port 4, addr 2 (disconnected)
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus7 target 0 lun 0
da0: <ST8000VN 0022-2EL112 > s/n A16888888888 detached
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Periph destroyed
umass0: detached

 

[Inxsible]

No ZFS pool. Four SATA CD drives

The USB drive that I am trying to connect isn't being used for anything. I just want to connect it and have it be recognized at the correct capacity.

You have 4 CD drives and 0 HDDs? Where is your OS running from? Live CD?

Is FreeNAS already running on this machine? If so are you running it off a USB stick?

And as for you connecting a USB 8TB drive, FreeNAS doesn't work that way. You can't connect a USB drive and transfer data. You need to use AFP, NFS or CIFS for that. If you just want to connect a USB drive to use as an external drive, you should be installing Windows/Linux or FreeBSD not FreeNAS.

What exactly are you trying to do?

 

[Busthead]

I connected a 3 TB drive via the same enclosure and it was recognized as 801.6 GB so the issue is either the enclosure, the USB controller, the OS.

I'll post this to the FreeBSD forums. Thanks for all your help!

 

[Inxsible]

I connected a 3 TB drive via the same enclosure and it was recognized as 801.6 GB so the issue is either the enclosure, the USB controller, the OS.

I'll post this to the FreeBSD forums. Thanks for all your help!

I am still not clear what OS you are using. Your first post mentioned FreeNAS 11.1-U2 and now you are saying you will post on FreeBSD. Most likely it's your controller which has a max limit of 2TB drives. See if a 2TB or less is recognized correctly in terms of size. If so, you need to upgrade in a big way if you want to use FreeNAS.

 

[Busthead]

Does the FreeNAS OS write it's own USB drivers?

My understanding is that most, if not all, drivers are inherited from FreeBSD. Please correct me if I'm wrong and let me know how to identify which driver is being used for my controller and how to debug it.