Freenas Not Seeing Drive in New eSATA Enclosure...

[bbddpp]

I maxxed out my internal case with 6 drives, so I just added a 7th drive via a new Sans Digital TR4M+BNC eSATA enclosure and port muiltiplier card.

Problem is, when I go to "view disks" or add volume, the drive is not being seen by Freenas. I verified that my PC sees the new drive on bootup, but freenas isn't even creating an ada for it.

It sees my Mediasonic ProBox HP1-SS3 PCI-Express 2.0 port multiplier card...

Jan 26 01:07:30 freenas kernel: pmp0: <Port Multiplier 38261095 1706> ATA-0 device

But then when the disks are listed, the new disk inside the enclosure doesn't even show. I verified that it's in the proper bay (bay 1) of the 4 bay enclosure...I realize some people might put it in the wrong bay but according to my tests, it's right.

The drive in the enclosure is brand new and unformatted, is it possible I need to put that drive in another system and format it in something first, before FreeNAS can see it?

Thanks for any help. Happy to show any other portions (or all) of the boot log if it might help.

Thanks folks!

 

[bbddpp]

I've got a bit more information on my own thread here...Hopefully this can help someone else help me?

If I turn the enclosure's power off, and back on, while FreeNAS is running, it DOES then see the drive. That's the only way I've been able to get it to display, so far. When I do a cold boot, even if the enclosure is powered on minutes before, FreeNAS doesn't see the drives connected to the port multiplier card.

After doing this, I was working with the drive to to some copy operations from the command line. Copying data out to the new drive seemed to work great, however, when I tried to copy data FROM the drive in the enclosure BACK to a drive inside the tower, THIS happened (ada6 was my hard drive in the enclosure, connected to the port multiplier, in line 3 below you can see it just dropped out):

Code:

Jan 26 11:14:29 freenas kernel: ahcich0: Timeout on slot 31 port 0
Jan 26 11:14:29 freenas kernel: ahcich0: is 04000000 cs 00000008 ss 8000000f rs 8000000f tfd 00 serr 00400000 cmd 0004c117
Jan 26 11:14:31 freenas kernel: (ada6:ahcich0:0:0:0): lost device
Jan 26 11:15:02 freenas kernel: ahcich0: Timeout on slot 3 port 0
Jan 26 11:15:02 freenas kernel: ahcich0: is 00000000 cs 00000008 ss 00000000 rs 00000008 tfd 58 serr 00000000 cmd 0004c017
Jan 26 11:15:03 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: g_eli_read_done() failed ada6p1.eli[READ(offset=1179648, length=12288)]
Jan 26 11:15:03 freenas kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pagein failed; blkno 3146022,size 12288, error 6
Jan 26 11:15:03 freenas kernel: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 20539 (cron)
Jan 26 11:15:03 freenas kernel: pid 20539 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Jan 26 11:15:03 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=6). ada6p1.eli[WRITE(offset=1376256, length=20480)]
Jan 26 11:15:03 freenas kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 3146070,size 20480, error 6
Jan 26 11:15:03 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=6). ada6p1.eli[WRITE(offset=1396736, length=12288)]
Jan 26 11:15:03 freenas kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 3146075,size 12288, error 6
Jan 26 11:15:03 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=6). ada6p1.eli[WRITE(offset=1409024, length=12288)]
Jan 26 11:15:03 freenas kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 3146078,size 12288, error 6
Jan 26 11:15:03 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=6). ada6p1.eli[WRITE(offset=1441792, length=24576)]
Jan 26 11:15:03 freenas kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 3146086,size 24576, error 6
Jan 26 11:15:03 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Crypto WRITE request failed (error=6). ada6p1.eli[WRITE(offset=1466368, length=65536)]
Jan 26 11:15:03 freenas kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 3146092,size 65536, error 6
Jan 26 11:15:04 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: g_eli_read_done() failed ada6p1.eli[READ(offset=393216, length=32768)]
Jan 26 11:15:04 freenas kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pagein failed; blkno 3145830,size 32768, error 6
Jan 26 11:15:04 freenas kernel: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 2758 (python)
Jan 26 11:15:04 freenas kernel: pid 2758 (python), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Jan 26 11:15:04 freenas kernel: (aprobe0:ahcich0:0:0:0): Unexpected signature 0xffff
Jan 26 11:15:04 freenas kernel: (aprobe1:ahcich0:0:5:0): Unexpected signature 0xffff

Thankfully I was just doing a data copy, so no loss, but still, what the heck happened here??? Any ideas?