How to add disk

[snowdrifter]

Created a virtual machine on an ESXi 4.1.0 machine and installed FreeNAS-8.0.3-RELEASE-p1-x64 (9591). Installed ok, but when entering GUI, I need to add/apply the disk before creating a volume. I can not find any places to mount the disk. Any documenation available on this??

 

[peterh]

How about reading the documentation ?

 

[Callaband]

Snowdrifter - I am having the same issue. Have you figured this out?

I had FreeNas 7x installed and running fine as a home server and wanted to try out 8x. I currently have FreeNAS-8.0.3-RELEASE-p1-x86 installed and the installation went great. Now that I'm in the GUI I am trying to add a volume, but nothing shows up. I am unable to Create Volume, Import Volume, or Auto Import Volume. When it tells me to select a member disk there is nothing in the list.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

[peterh]

is there any discs available ? use the command "camcontrol devlist" to see available disks. Om none is seen
camcontrol rescan might find them.

Amother source might be to examine dmesg ( dmesg | less ) to see what diskdevices are detected during boot
( you need to open up a terminal window to get access to commands)

 

[Callaband]

There is an internal hd on this laptop.
dmesg shows the deskdevice. it states that its ada0:
When I type mount is shows /dev/md0, /dev/md1, /dev/md2, /dev/ufs/freenass1a, /dev/ufs/freenass4
when I type mount -t ufs /dev/md_ /mnt it tells me "Operation not permitted."

"Camcontrol devlist" shows the hard drive and cd-rom.
<samsung ___> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass0)
<DVD-ROM> at scbus1 targer 0 lun 0 (pass1,cd0)

 

[Callaband]

Update: logged in as root. now when I try to mount, says device is busy.

 

[peterh]

if device is busy then it's unavailable
And i do not see any point int running freenas on a laptop with a single drive. Are you a troll ?

 

[Callaband]

FreeNas 7 worked great on the same laptop with all the same parts less than 24 hours ago so I don't understand why 8 would be any different. I guess adding a drive would fix the issue, but I've been playing around with this far to long. Time to try something else.

BTW - I don't understand the question, "Are you a troll?" So if your referring to me as living under a bridge because I'm clueless, hah, then I guess I am!

Thanks for the info peterh!

 

[Callaband]

Peterh - Your a genius! I packed everything up and put the laptop away counting it as a loss, but then I got to thinking what you said, "i do not see any point in running freenas on a laptop with a single drive."

And your right, so I plugged in an SD card to a USB slot and BOOM! I got my "Member disk" (volume) to show up. The internal hard drive still doesn't show up, but all I have to do now is hook up an external usb hard drive and I'm good!

Thanks for putting a seed in my brain Peterh!

 

[survive]

Hi Callaband,

Did you install FreeNAS to the internal disk in the laptop? If I'm understanding the way you have your hardware configured properly that's the problem......you can't have the system & data reside on the same disk.

Install FreeNAS to a USB key & boot off that and see if the disk can be seen.

-Will