831rP2x386 Auto Import Volume

[ThePowerTool]

I run FreeNAS on a box with 1 SCSI drive and 3 drives attached to a RAID card.

I lost the SCSI drive to failure. I dropped in a replacment SCSI drive (exact same model and size) and installed using the same installation CD I created for the previous drive.

I have FreeNAS up and running.

Volumes : Active Volumes : Auto Import Volume sees my RAID 3 volume (named "RAID3"). I select it and it spends time supposedly importing the volume but then returns to the screen stating "No volumes defined."

Am I doing something wrong? The documentation states that RAID3 is supported for Auto Import Volume. I'd really like my volume back as it failed the day before a scheduled backup and I would lose a week's worth of data. I'd really like to recover my data and believe I should be able to do so based upon my hw and software choices.

Please let me know if you need me to provide any additional information.

 

[ThePowerTool]

OK, there's more to this story. During boot it says it finds the volume and there's a message I can't read. I need to find the logs. I'll post more when I find the logs.

 

[ThePowerTool]

Here's the log detail:

Nov 29 15:01:56 freenas kernel: SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
Nov 29 15:01:56 freenas kernel: SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
Nov 29 15:01:56 freenas kernel: SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
Nov 29 15:01:56 freenas kernel: GEOM_RAID3: Device raid3/RAID3 launched (2/3).
Nov 29 15:01:56 freenas kernel: GEOM_RAID3: Device RAID3: rebuilding provider ada2.
Nov 29 15:01:56 freenas kernel: GEOM: da0s1: geometry does not match label (16h,63s != 255h,63s).
Nov 29 15:01:56 freenas kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/FreeNASs1a
Nov 29 15:01:56 freenas root: /etc/rc: WARNING: Dump device does not exist. Savecore not run.
Nov 29 15:01:56 freenas root: /etc/rc: WARNING: failed precmd routine for vmware_guestd
Nov 29 15:01:57 freenas ntpd[1550]: ntpd 4.2.4p5-a (1)
Nov 29 15:01:59 freenas smartd[1764]: Configuration file /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf parsed but has no entries (like /dev/hda)
Nov 29 15:01:59 freenas root: /etc/rc: WARNING: failed to start smartd
Nov 29 15:02:06 freenas ntpd[1551]: time reset -0.153109 s
Nov 29 15:02:14 freenas kernel: ZFS NOTICE: Prefetch is disabled by default on i386 -- to enable,
Nov 29 15:02:14 freenas kernel: add "vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0" to /boot/loader.conf.
Nov 29 15:02:14 freenas kernel: ZFS WARNING: Recommended minimum kmem_size is 512MB; expect unstable behavior.
Nov 29 15:02:14 freenas kernel: Consider tuning vm.kmem_size and vm.kmem_size_max
Nov 29 15:02:14 freenas kernel: in /boot/loader.conf.
Nov 29 15:02:14 freenas kernel: ZFS filesystem version 5
Nov 29 15:02:14 freenas kernel: ZFS storage pool version 28

I can provide more, if necessary.

 

[ThePowerTool]

Auto Import works fine unless you have two corrupted drives in your raid array.

In the process of recovering from the failure I accidentally corrupted my raid array. What I've learned from this is should I ever have a problem in the future before I attempt to re-install or do anything to the OS I will 1st disconnect the data drives to prevent accidents.

I've upgraded to 9 and restored from backup.