SOLVED FreeNAS on HP Proliant ML110 G5 - Cannot create volume - SOLVED!!!

[Bruno Matias]

Hi,
I have a HP Proliant ML110 G5 with two 250GB hard disks, and a 8GB pen drive on the internal usb port, on which i installed the FreeNas.
I'm having a problem on creating the volume. I fill the information required, and when i press the button to create the volume, it open a window with the steps it's going to do, and end right after the step of creating the volume, without creating any volume.
I checked with gpart and with zpool and the volume isn't created.
I also checked in /dev/ and the devices (ada0 and ada1) are there.
So, what can it be the problem on creating the volume?

Thanks a lot.

BM

 

[dlavigne]

Anything in /var/log/messages?

 

[Bruno Matias]

Hi,
On /var/log/messages, beside some normal stuff, found some lines with something like this: "GEOM: raid/r128:corrupt or invalid GPT detected"...
Can it be from this?

Thanks

 

[Mirfster]

Have you tried wiping those drives first?

 

[Bruno Matias]

I wiped the drives before...

 

[depasseg]

How are the drives connected? Not via HW RAID, I hope. How did you wipe the drives? Sounds like they need a good cleaning.

 

[Bruno Matias]

The drives are connected to the onboard controller.
I wiped them with the function of gthe GUI of freenas...
How can i do a "good cleaning" better than with the wipe?

 

[Mirfster]

"gpart destroy -F"

Yep - gpart is sooo much faster.
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/volume-manager-doesnt-see-my-3tb-hdd.41099/#post-261630

 

[Bruno Matias]

To do the destroy i must see them in the gpart show... and i don't... :(

Will i have to take the disks out and connect them to another machine by usb or something to clean them?

 

[Mirfster]

Reboot FreeNAS and try again possibly?

Otherwise, sure you can either connect them to a Windows Machine and use "DiskPart" and the "Clean" command (be careful with this so you don't wipe your Windows Drive(s).

If your system has IPMI, you could mount an ISO to a Virtual CD and boot up whatever flavor OS you are comfortable with (Windows PE, Linux, Ubuntu, etc) and use them to wipe the disks as well. Keep in mind a simple "Format" is not really going to do it (I think you will need more).

 

[Mirfster]

Side note: Do you know where these drives came from? Like if they were from a NetApp or similar that is proprietary?

 

[Bruno Matias]

No... the drives were used in this server... with a windows server...
I just rebuild the raid... and then cleaned the raid to install freenas...

 

[Bruno Matias]

I think i got the problem...
I wen to the raid configuration of the controller, and the disks were intialized by the controler as separate single drive raid... somehow dum... but of... deleted everything in the controller gui, and then in the freenas gui, i started the wipe process and it's taking a lot longer than when i did it before... i think it's gonna work now... once it ends i will see if it works and post the result here...

 

[Mirfster]

I wen to the raid configuration of the controller

Just to be clear, you are not using the Hardware Raid controller in your FreeNas system are you?

 

[Bruno Matias]

Solved... it was what i found out...
The volume is created and seams to be fine.
Thanks to all for the help.

 

[melloa]

Saw your posting in Portuguese regarding NIC and found this one regarding HD ... can't hold me finger and ask: Did you see the question asked by Mirfster above? He has a point and I would advise you to do some research regarding using a hardware raid controller with FN. I don't believe it's recommended.