FreeNAS drives not showing up.

[johnnytsunami]

I have a supermicro server that has two HBA controllers. It has 6 drives, two with 3TB, two 164GB and 2 1TB HDDs.

Initially I was having trouble with getting the drives to show up but after using ctrl-c, I was able to enable the cards and see the hard drives connected.

I installed FreeNas 11 on the server but when I go into the FreeNas itself to configure the volume, it does not show all the drives.

Am I missing something?

Update:

The goal is to create a location for storing huge amounts of data that would require multiple TB of data.
I ave 2 HBA cards (both SAS9210-8i)
HDD:
ATA WDC WD1002FBYS-0 0C06 - 1TB
ATA WDC WD1002FBYS-0 0C06 - 1TB
HITACHI HUS723030ALS640 - 3TB
HITACHI HUS723030ALS640 - 3TB
DELL ST3146356SS - 146 GB
DELL ST3146356SS - 146 GB

MOTHERBOARD: x9dri-ln4f+
FreeNAS 11

I have FreeNAS installed and I can view 4 disk which are my TB HDD's. I can not see the 146 GB HDDs. Using ctrl-c I was able to see the HBA adaptors and see its topology. I can only see 2 drives per controller.

Also when creating a volume it only allows me to use about 4.5 TB of space. I can see the other drives when I view all the disk but I can only create a volume worth 4.5TB.

Anything helps and I appreciate the help of the community.

 

[kdragon75]

We can't help you if we don't know what hardware or FreeNAS version you are using.

 

[Chris Moore]

You could easily be missing something. you're definitely not telling us the model numbers and part numbers are which makes a big difference

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[rvassar]

Need model numbers... I'll stick my neck out and guess the HBA's are actually HW RAID cards, and it's hiding the actual disks.

 

[HoneyBadger]

I'll stick my neck out and guess the HBA's are actually HW RAID cards, and it's hiding the actual disks.

The "after using ctrl-c, I was able to enable the cards and see the hard drives connected" is kind of a giveaway here.

I'm betting it's a RAID card that doesn't pass unconfigured drives through.

@johnnytsunami - you need to replace one (or both, although why you need two cards for six drives I'm uncertain) with an HBA.

 

[johnnytsunami]

We can't help you if we don't know what hardware or FreeNAS version you are using.

Update:

The goal is to create a location for storing huge amounts of data that would require multiple TB of data.
I ave 2 HBA cards (both SAS9210-8i)
HDD:
ATA WDC WD1002FBYS-0 0C06 - 1TB
ATA WDC WD1002FBYS-0 0C06 - 1TB
HITACHI HUS723030ALS640 - 3TB
HITACHI HUS723030ALS640 - 3TB
DELL ST3146356SS - 146 GB
DELL ST3146356SS - 146 GB

MOTHERBOARD: x9dri-ln4f+
FreeNAS 11

I have FreeNAS installed and I can view 4 disk which are my TB HDD's. I can not see the 146 GB HDDs. Using ctrl-c I was able to see the HBA adaptors and see its topology. I can only see 2 drives per controller.

• Also when creating a volume it only allows me to use about 4.5 TB of space. I can see the other drives when I view all the disk but I can only create a volume worth 4.5TB.

 

[HoneyBadger]

SAS9210-8i

Yep, those are RAID cards. Ten points to @rvassar

@johnnytsunami you should replace those cards with LSI HBAs that do not use RAID functionality, like the 9207-8i, 9211-8i, or a similar OEM flashed card using the same chipset.

 

[johnnytsunami]

Yep, those are RAID cards. Ten points to @rvassar

@johnnytsunami you should replace those cards with LSI HBAs that do not use RAID functionality, like the 9207-8i, 9211-8i, or a similar OEM flashed card using the same chipset.

I stepped into a position that had me work on this but is there a way to use what I currently have? I don't think we have another card to use.

 

[Chris Moore]

I ave 2 HBA cards

Why do you have any HBA cards when you only have six hard drives and that system board can support all of them directly? What chassis is this in?

MOTHERBOARD: x9dri-ln4f+
FreeNAS 11

You are not paying attention and it is making this all take a lot more time than it needs to take. First, FreeNAS 11 is the 'major version' and is basically meaningless because we have all these versions of FreeNAS 11 with some minor and some pretty significant changes:

Code:

11.0-RELEASE
11.0-U1
11.0-U2
11.0-U3
11.0-U4
11.1-RELEASE
11.1-U1
11.1-U2
11.1-U3
11.1-U4
11.1-U5
11.1-U6
11.2-BETA1
11.2-BETA2
11.2-BETA3

You must be specific. Details matter

I have FreeNAS installed and I can view 4 disk which are my TB HDD's. I can not see the 146 GB HDDs

If you installed FreeNAS on the 146 GB drives, the only thing they would be good for, they would not show up in the section of FreeNAS where you create your storage pool.

Using ctrl-c I was able to see the HBA adaptors and see its topology. I can only see 2 drives per controller.

You should not need to configure the controllers for the drives to show up in FreeNAS. This indicates that you have the wrong kind of controller.

Also when creating a volume it only allows me to use about 4.5 TB of space.

If you are mirroring the two 3 TB drives as one vdev and mirroring the two 1 TB drives as another, I would be surprised if you even have 4.5 TB of usable space. You will need to be specific about how you are trying to configure the drives.

ATA WDC WD1002FBYS-0 0C06 - 1TB
ATA WDC WD1002FBYS-0 0C06 - 1TB
HITACHI HUS723030ALS640 - 3TB
HITACHI HUS723030ALS640 - 3TB

Or, are you trying to make a stripe set with no redundancy?

 

[HoneyBadger]

I stepped into a position that had me work on this but is there a way to use what I currently have? I don't think we have another card to use.

Advise them that the current hardware is inappropriate for the use case, and proper hardware needs to be obtained. A used-pull OEM card that is compatible with LSI firmware should be around USD$50, possibly more if you're looking for a newer model.

 

[Chris Moore]

You need to review the resources:

Updated Forum Rules 4/11/17
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/updated-forum-rules-4-11-17.45124/

Slideshow explaining VDev, zpool, ZIL and L2ARC
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...ning-vdev-zpool-zil-and-l2arc-for-noobs.7775/

Terminology and Abbreviations Primer
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/terminology-and-abbreviations-primer.28174/

 

[kdragon75]

I stepped into a position that had me work on this but is there a way to use what I currently have? I don't think we have another card to use.

Not safely. Second hand HBAs go for less then $50. You need to present you boss/client with the risks of not spending $50.

Also when creating a volume it only allows me to use about 4.5 TB of space. I can see the other drives when I view all the disk but I can only create a volume worth 4.5TB.

Don't forget ZFS is a form of RAID and for any one vDev, each member disk can only contribute as much space as the smallest member in that vDev.