/dev/ada0, 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors

[daveb]

Hi All,

I have the dreaded /dev/ada0, 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors and will need to replace my drive.

My question, is there a way to easily determine which bay on my system my ada0 drive is in? I dont want to pull the wrong drive.

Thanks for your help,
David

 

[m0nkey_]

Storage > View Disks

 

[nojohnny101]

You identify disk by serial number, not the arbitrary label FreeNAS gives it.

This is covered in the manual in the replacing a drive section. You can obtain the serial number as @m0nkey_ pointed out.

 

[bigphil]

If you didn't mark them when they were first installed, I'd get the serial number from the bad drive, shut down and then remove it. The disk names can change. I always use the description field to annotate which bay a disk is in immediately after it is installed, that way I don't have to worry about pulling the wrong drive as this data will be linked by the serial number in the FreeNAS database. So...next time you insert a new drive, make a note in the description field to save the headache.