SOLVED Freenas pool manager not showing all drives

[ccdanieldb]

Solved.

Activating the other two controllers (JMB363 & JMB362) and setting them to AHCI mode did the trick for 11.2. One other problem I ran into after activating the controllers and the reason I turned them off was that for whatever reason putting Freenas on a USB Drive does not work when the controllers are active. So now I am booting from an SSD.

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Hello, all, I need some help.

I have a problem that is not letting me create new pools from all attached disks.

As you can see from my screenshots below all 5 of my drives show up when I go to Storage, Disks in the GUI

But from my second screenshot you can see when I go to Storage, Pool manager only two disks are available for pool creation. ada1 and ada3

I have tried wiping the drives using the GUI in here in FreeNAS, taking the drive out and using my Mac to zero out the drive in Mac disk utility, moving the drives to my PC and using Diskpart to clean and format all drives and finally using Ubuntu Linux's gparted and disks to format the drives in a number of ways. None of that worked.

It was at this point I noticed that the visible drives to pool manager (ada1 and ada3) could represent any drive installed in the proper SATA port of the MB. This leads me to believe that the issue is related to the MB and not the drives.

I have also loaded screes shots of my bios setup below.

Can you take a look at them and let me know what you think. I also want to add that this was not a problem on the same hardware in FreeNAS 11.1. But I did run into permissions issues with new drives that had similar symptoms.

Thank you.

Build
Motherboard EVGA X58 3x SLI, P/N 141-BL-E759-A1,
Bios Revision 1/7/10
CPU Intel i7 x980 06C2/14
24GB DDR3
GPU AMD?
FreeNAS 11.2-U4.1
Hard disk controller None
Network cards None
Hard Drives

Code:

root@freenas:~ # camcontrol devlist
<ST8000DM004-2CX188 0001>          at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,ada0)
<ST8000DM004-2CX188 0001>          at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,ada1)
<WDC WD10EACS-00D6B0 01.01A01>     at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass2,ada2)
<ST31000528AS AP4C>                at scbus4 target 0 lun 0 (pass3,ada3)
<ST3160815AS 4.CCC>                at scbus5 target 0 lun 0 (pass4,ada4)

Code:

root@freenas:~ # geom disk list
Geom name: ada0
Providers:
1. Name: ada0
   Mediasize: 8001563222016 (7.3T)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 4096
   Stripeoffset: 0
   Mode: r0w0e0
   descr: ST8000DM004-2CX188
   lunid: 5000c500bf190722
   ident: WCT1BC9M
   rotationrate: 5425
   fwsectors: 63
   fwheads: 16

Geom name: ada1
Providers:
1. Name: ada1
   Mediasize: 8001563222016 (7.3T)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Stripesize: 4096
   Stripeoffset: 0
   Mode: r0w0e0
   descr: ST8000DM004-2CX188
   lunid: 5000c500b47391c8
   ident: ZCT0LDX1
   rotationrate: 5425
   fwsectors: 63
   fwheads: 16

Geom name: ada2
Providers:
1. Name: ada2
   Mediasize: 1000204886016 (932G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r0w0e0
   descr: WDC WD10EACS-00D6B0
   lunid: 50014ee201badced
   ident: WD-WCAU41052079
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 63
   fwheads: 16

Geom name: ada3
Providers:
1. Name: ada3
   Mediasize: 1000204886016 (932G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r0w0e0
   descr: ST31000528AS
   lunid: 5000c5003ecd83c1
   ident: 9VPDXRPV
   rotationrate: 7200
   fwsectors: 63
   fwheads: 16

Geom name: ada4
Providers:
1. Name: ada4 (Boot drive)
   Mediasize: 160041885696 (149G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e2
   descr: ST3160815AS
   ident: 5RA9Y4HX
   rotationrate: unknown
   fwsectors: 63
   fwheads: 16

 

[wesman2232]

Bump. Having some of the same issue on our FreeNas

 

[Glorious1]

I suspect there are no replies because no one knows the answer, and I don't either. So you're saying, if you just switch the cabling to hook the drive to a different SATA port, the drive will appear or not appear in the Create Pool dialog? If so, your logic seems sound - it might be a motherboard issue, if that's what they're hooked to. That board doesn't seem to be one that is usually recommended for FreeNAS.

 

[ccdanieldb]

I suspect there are no replies because no one knows the answer, and I don't either. So you're saying, if you just switch the cabling to hook the drive to a different SATA port, the drive will appear or not appear in the Create Pool dialog? If so, your logic seems sound - it might be a motherboard issue, if that's what they're hooked to. That board doesn't seem to be one that is usually recommended for FreeNAS.

I am not sure ether. It was a working setup with the same hardware on 11.1 (less the two 8TB drives) before I changed trains to 11.2. Before I changed trains I wiped the 2 1TB drives. I think I will make a 11.1 boot drive to see if I can make pools from the installed drives, then come back to 11.2 and find out if I can access them.

 

[pro lamer]

any drive installed in the proper SATA port of the MB

A long shot: have you ruled out the SATA cables?

 

[Jessep]

I couldn't find your exact model manual but it appears you have (3) different SATA controllers.

Code:

Nine(9) onboard Serial ATA II + one(1) eSATA II
 300MBps data transfer rate
 Six Serial ATA II connectors from south bridge with support for RAID 0,
RAID 1, RAID 10, and RAID 5
 Two Serial ATA II connectors from JMicron’s JMB363 with support for
RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and JBOD
 Two Serial ATA II connectors from JMicron’s JMB362 (one rear panel
port for eSATA, one onboard connector) with support for RAID 0,
RAID 1 and JBOD
 Supports hot plug and NCQ (Native Command Queuing )

 

[ccdanieldb]

I couldn't find your exact model manual but it appears you have (3) different SATA controllers.

Yes, the first controller is active all the time and the other two (JMB363 & JMB362) can be toggled on/off in bios. The latter two are both off now. I want to point out that the OS has no problem seeing the drives and running bad blocks on them. I can even use the GUI wipe command under (storage / disks). This should rule out bad cables but not a controller problem.

When I get home tonight I will install 11.1 and see if that works. I have the same setup with 8 3TB drives running on 11.1 as my household backup. But that MB is a gigabyte X58a-UD3R. I am not having any problems with the Gigabyte board.

 

[ccdanieldb]

Solved. Activating the other two controllers (JMB363 & JMB362) and setting them to AHCI mode did the trick for 11.2. One other problem I ran into after activating the controllers and the reason I turned them off was that for whatever reason putting Freenas on a USB Drive does not work when the controllers are active. So now I am booting from an SSD.