HP Microserver and WDRED Problem

[thesilversurfer2009]

Hi

I jumped into freenas head first with a HP microserver with 6 WDRED 3TB drives (drives 5 and 6 sit in thee 3.5 drive bay on top, one routed to the E-Stata port and 1 to the additional internal SATA port). I have not updated the BIOS.

Im finding that the drive on the internal SATA port regurly shows as OFFLINE and I can see some errors on the console. Rebooting does not fix the problem and all drives can be seen at bios level. If I disconnect and reconnect the SATA cable to the drive, all seems file for a few days before the cycle starts again.

Um using a 6 disk RAIDZ2 pool
Is there anyway to determine if I have a duff drive ? / Am I expecting to much to have a 6 drive config in the microserver

Any help would be appreciated - Thanks

 

[gpsguy]

How much RAM do you have? They will take 16Gb. You really need to use one of the hacked BIOS' if you want to use the eSata and CDROM connections. Otherwise they'll run as an IDE device.


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