spawn27
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- Aug 27, 2011
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hello,
excuse me for my english and for my low acknowledge on this kind of systems.
I was an old good user of SUN Solaris but in the last 15 years I have forget more or less all.
the problem.
I am bought HP miniserver N36L and easily installed Freenas 8.0 RELEASE amd64 on 8gb kingston pen drive.
After consulting forums I've understood that the bundled 1Gb Ram was not sufficient and upgraded to 4Gb; I've understood also that bundled HP (seagate) 250Gb HDD was unusable due to AHCI protocol (that I have disabled also in N36L bios) so I'm bought 2 brand new 2Tb seagate HDD (type ST2000DL003) and also mounted as mirrored volume UFS.
it was my intention also create in the 2 empty slot a stripe volume using 2 Seagate 1Tb I already have (type ST31000528AS) ... coming from my 1year-old ICY BOX NAS that suddenly dead.... :(
but
as soon as I empty them and tried to use they was not available as mountable device even if I see them during the boot phase of the server as ada0 and ada1 dsck.
so I read in this forum that I should clear completely the disk and I provide using BSD command (see this thread http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?1360-Howto-remove-partitions&highlight=disk+volume )
although this the disk is not mountable .... but if I use usb adaptor and connect the HDD to the server I can see and create a volume!!!!
Why it is possible via USB and not via SATA ?
thanx in advance for your answer.
Mimmo
excuse me for my english and for my low acknowledge on this kind of systems.
I was an old good user of SUN Solaris but in the last 15 years I have forget more or less all.
the problem.
I am bought HP miniserver N36L and easily installed Freenas 8.0 RELEASE amd64 on 8gb kingston pen drive.
After consulting forums I've understood that the bundled 1Gb Ram was not sufficient and upgraded to 4Gb; I've understood also that bundled HP (seagate) 250Gb HDD was unusable due to AHCI protocol (that I have disabled also in N36L bios) so I'm bought 2 brand new 2Tb seagate HDD (type ST2000DL003) and also mounted as mirrored volume UFS.
it was my intention also create in the 2 empty slot a stripe volume using 2 Seagate 1Tb I already have (type ST31000528AS) ... coming from my 1year-old ICY BOX NAS that suddenly dead.... :(
but
as soon as I empty them and tried to use they was not available as mountable device even if I see them during the boot phase of the server as ada0 and ada1 dsck.
so I read in this forum that I should clear completely the disk and I provide using BSD command (see this thread http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?1360-Howto-remove-partitions&highlight=disk+volume )
although this the disk is not mountable .... but if I use usb adaptor and connect the HDD to the server I can see and create a volume!!!!
Why it is possible via USB and not via SATA ?
thanx in advance for your answer.
Mimmo