Freenas can't see my hard drives

[RalphC]

I am building a new Freenas box. I have loaded and am booting Freenas from a thumb drive, which works well. My problem is, when I try to setup the 2 Western Digital (500GB) drives, which are configured as a RAID0, freenas cannot see them.
I know the drives are configured correctly because Windows7 was previously loaded on them.
Freenas will see the drives individually but I cannot assign the space.
Any suggestions?
Thank you
RC

 

[Ericloewe]

You're trying to use fakeRAID with FreeNAS? That doesn't work and it would be a profoundly terrible idea if it did work. Turn off all the pseudoRAID crap.

 

[depasseg]

Put another way, the reason FreeNAS can't see your individual drives, is because it sounds like you have configured RAID 0 at a lower lever (BIOS, RAID Adapter) and so a single disk is being presented to FreeNAS. You need to configure each disk to be passed through individually to the OS (No RAID).

 

[Ericloewe]

Put another way, the reason FreeNAS can't see your individual drives, is because it sounds like you have configured RAID 0 at a lower lever (BIOS, RAID Adapter) and so a single disk is being presented to FreeNAS. You need to configure each disk to be passed through individually to the OS (No RAID).

Well, the single volume isn't being presented (if I understood the situation) to the OS because the OS requires a driver to actually see the volume instead of the disks in a weird state. Windows has the driver included, but FreeNAS has no reason to include it.

 

[DrKK]

Put another way, the reason FreeNAS can't see your individual drives, is because it sounds like you have configured RAID 0 at a lower lever (BIOS, RAID Adapter) and so a single disk is being presented to FreeNAS. You need to configure each disk to be passed through individually to the OS (No RAID).

@depasseg everytime I see your picture I am reminded of the Dutch pop musician Frans Bauer. Are you, in fact, Frans Bauer?

 

[DrKK]

Here is Bauer's finest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23_-pAqJf_U

 

[depasseg]

I wish! I did live in Holland for a couple years. Maybe it's a contagious look.

 

[DrKK]

I wish! I did live in Holland for a couple years. Maybe it's a contagious look.

I'm pretty sure you're Frans Bauer. Except I don't envision Frans being able to use a FreeBSD appliance.

 

[depasseg]

You crack me up.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

Freenas will see the drives individually but I cannot assign the space.

Aside from any other issues, are you aware that FreeNAS doesn't like to use drives that appear to have data on them (partition table etc)? Wipe them if you haven't already done so.