After creating a pool disk don't show anymore

[JonathanM]

Hi everybody !

I'm a new user of TrueNAS and I've got a weird issue ...
When I install for the first time TrueNAS, I can see all the disk installed but after creating my first pool, disks disappear and I can't create another pool with the other free disks...
I can see them in the pool

and in the

Code:

geom disk list

command

Code:

root@HLTRUENAS[~]# geom disk list
Geom name: da0
Providers:
1. Name: da0
   Mediasize: 2000365379584 (1.8T)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e3
   descr: HP RAID 0
   lunid: 600508b100105039535758344c590003
   ident: PAFGL0P9SWX4LY
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: da1
Providers:
1. Name: da1
   Mediasize: 2000365379584 (1.8T)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e3
   descr: HP RAID 0
   lunid: 600508b100105039535758344c590004
   ident: PAFGL0P9SWX4LY
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: da2
Providers:
1. Name: da2
   Mediasize: 2000365379584 (1.8T)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r2w2e5
   descr: HP RAID 0
   lunid: 600508b100105039535758344c590005
   ident: PAFGL0P9SWX4LY
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: da3
Providers:
1. Name: da3
   Mediasize: 2000365379584 (1.8T)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r2w2e5
   descr: HP RAID 0
   lunid: 600508b100105039535758344c590006
   ident: PAFGL0P9SWX4LY
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: da4
Providers:
1. Name: da4
   Mediasize: 2000365379584 (1.8T)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r2w2e5
   descr: HP RAID 0
   lunid: 600508b100105039535758344c590007
   ident: PAFGL0P9SWX4LY
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: da5
Providers:
1. Name: da5
   Mediasize: 2000365379584 (1.8T)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r2w2e5
   descr: HP RAID 0
   lunid: 600508b100105039535758344c590008
   ident: PAFGL0P9SWX4LY
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: da6
Providers:
1. Name: da6
   Mediasize: 2000365379584 (1.8T)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r2w2e5
   descr: HP RAID 0
   lunid: 600508b100105039535758344c590009
   ident: PAFGL0P9SWX4LY
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: da7
Providers:
1. Name: da7
   Mediasize: 2000365379584 (1.8T)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r2w2e5
   descr: HP RAID 0
   lunid: 600508b100105039535758344c59000a
   ident: PAFGL0P9SWX4LY
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: da8
Providers:
1. Name: da8
   Mediasize: 127998935040 (119G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e2
   descr: HP RAID 1(1+0)
   lunid: 600508b1001052395358343259510006
   ident: PAFGL0R9SX42YQ
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: da9
Providers:
1. Name: da9
   Mediasize: 250023444480 (233G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e3
   descr: HP RAID 0
   lunid: 600508b1001052395358343259510008
   ident: PAFGL0R9SX42YQ
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: da10
Providers:
1. Name: da10
   Mediasize: 250023444480 (233G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r0w0e0
   descr: HP RAID 0
   lunid: 600508b1001052395358343259510009
   ident: PAFGL0R9SX42YQ
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: da11
Providers:
1. Name: da11
   Mediasize: 250023444480 (233G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r0w0e0
   descr: HP RAID 0
   lunid: 600508b100105239535834325951000a
   ident: PAFGL0R9SX42YQ
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: da12
Providers:
1. Name: da12
   Mediasize: 240021504000 (224G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r0w0e0
   descr: HP RAID 0
   lunid: 600508b100105239535834325951000b
   ident: PAFGL0R9SX42YQ
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: da13
Providers:
1. Name: da13
   Mediasize: 250023444480 (233G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e3
   descr: HP RAID 0
   lunid: 600508b100105239535834325951000c
   ident: PAFGL0R9SX42YQ
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: da14
Providers:
1. Name: da14
   Mediasize: 256022937600 (238G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e3
   descr: HP RAID 0
   lunid: 600508b100105239535834325951000d
   ident: PAFGL0R9SX42YQ
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 32
   fwheads: 255

Geom name: cd0
Providers:
1. Name: cd0
   Mediasize: 0 (0B)
   Sectorsize: 2048
   Mode: r0w0e0

but not in Storage/Disks (only 2 are shown, I don't understand)...

It's the 3rd time I've installed TrueNAS... I don't understand what I'm doing wrong .....

 

[Redcoat]

Looks like your problem is that you are using a hardware raid card.

This Resource article was written for you: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/whats-all-the-noise-about-hbas-and-why-cant-i-use-a-raid-controller.139/

 

[JonathanM]

Thanks so much for this answer !
Yeah, I was using an old HP server and plugged some disks into the hot-swappable bays and put all the drives into raid 0 so I can see them in TrueNAS and so I can see all of them ...
I didn't even think about it ... will find some HBA cards and plug them into the server
Thanks again

Cheers
Jonathan

 

[Redcoat]

Thanks so much for this answer !
Yeah, I was using an old HP server and plugged some disks into the hot-swappable bays and put all the drives into raid 0 so I can see them in TrueNAS and so I can see all of them ...
I didn't even think about it ... will find some HBA cards and plug them into the server
Thanks again

Cheers
Jonathan

No problem. Welcome to the forums, by the way!!

There's lots of postings and info about HBAS's here, including resources with very detailed flashing information to IT mode from the normal HBA default IR mode - such as this very highly detailed example: https://www.truenas.com/community/r...9300-9305-9311-9400-94xx-hba-and-variants.54/

Plenty of help available here for the asking. HP raid cards are frequency remarked about here as "unfriendly" for TrueNAS but you might want to search and/or post its identity and see if there's any info on utilizing the particular card that you have.
Good luck!