I think I am hosed. I am not smart enough to know for sure, but I can see a disaster here.
This started with a power blink. The FreeNAS box was not on a UPS. I have had blinks before and occasionally a reboot was required to get everything back online. This time a reboot did not solve the problem. I would get to a repeating error that was primarily comprised of:
CAM status: ATA Status Error
ATA status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR), error 40 (UNC)
Some digging pointed me to a disk error. I thought "that is why I have a redundant system"... replace the disk and let it rebuild. Looking through the log files and doing some SMART runs allowed me to figure out which drive was the culprit. I got a new disk and replaced it.
The boot went past the repeating error, but when it tried to import the pool it gave the error message:
Cannot import 'newraid': i/o error
Destroy and recreate the pool from a backup source.
Where 'newraid' is the name of my pool. The boot continued to the menu and the web interface for FreeNAS was enabled.
I can go to the web interface and see the pool definition in the volumes section. The Alert System has a critical item stating "The volume 'newraid' (ZFS) state is UNKNOWN:". I searched for instructions on replacing a disk and found instruction to go to "View Disks" and select "replace" for the old disk. I can see the new disk there, but no option to replace. The old disk is not there since it had to be removed to be able to get past the boot error.
I am stuck and I am not smart enough to get past this. Hopefully someone can help. I have tried zpool commands from various posts; "zpool status -v" only shows my boot drive pool, not newraid. Most of the rest are non-starters since I can't import the pool and the zpool commands mostly seem to require that first.
Some specifics about my setup: I am running FreeNAS 9.3 using an Intel box with (initially) 4 drives; one drive for the OS and 3 - 3TB drives for the NAS setup as RaidZ. One of the 3TB drives is the one that failed and I have tried to replace it without luck.
Can anyone provide some pointers on how to get through this or (I hope not) show me how to confirm that the NAS is lost for good?
This started with a power blink. The FreeNAS box was not on a UPS. I have had blinks before and occasionally a reboot was required to get everything back online. This time a reboot did not solve the problem. I would get to a repeating error that was primarily comprised of:
CAM status: ATA Status Error
ATA status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR), error 40 (UNC)
Some digging pointed me to a disk error. I thought "that is why I have a redundant system"... replace the disk and let it rebuild. Looking through the log files and doing some SMART runs allowed me to figure out which drive was the culprit. I got a new disk and replaced it.
The boot went past the repeating error, but when it tried to import the pool it gave the error message:
Cannot import 'newraid': i/o error
Destroy and recreate the pool from a backup source.
Where 'newraid' is the name of my pool. The boot continued to the menu and the web interface for FreeNAS was enabled.
I can go to the web interface and see the pool definition in the volumes section. The Alert System has a critical item stating "The volume 'newraid' (ZFS) state is UNKNOWN:". I searched for instructions on replacing a disk and found instruction to go to "View Disks" and select "replace" for the old disk. I can see the new disk there, but no option to replace. The old disk is not there since it had to be removed to be able to get past the boot error.
I am stuck and I am not smart enough to get past this. Hopefully someone can help. I have tried zpool commands from various posts; "zpool status -v" only shows my boot drive pool, not newraid. Most of the rest are non-starters since I can't import the pool and the zpool commands mostly seem to require that first.
Some specifics about my setup: I am running FreeNAS 9.3 using an Intel box with (initially) 4 drives; one drive for the OS and 3 - 3TB drives for the NAS setup as RaidZ. One of the 3TB drives is the one that failed and I have tried to replace it without luck.
Can anyone provide some pointers on how to get through this or (I hope not) show me how to confirm that the NAS is lost for good?