import fails after adding RocketRaid controller

[iainc]

Hi,

I've been running FreeNAS for a while and I haven't had any issues. It's generally sweet. I want to add more disks and my EVGA 790i mobo only has 6 sata ports. So I added a RocketRaid 1820A. It's just a controller - no hw RAID.

If I export and move the drives over to the RocketRaid, ZFS doesn't recognize them. camcontrol devlist shows them (with slightly mangled names). zpool import does nothing. In the first listing below, one drive is still connected to the mobo and it gets found; the other four are on the RocketRaid.

I've had a poke around in the RocketRaid's boot-time config menus. Nothing seems untoward. I've had a read of the zpool import man page. I can't see an option that seems like it'd help.

Is there something I can do to kick ZFS into finding all my drives?

-Iain

Code:

FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p3 (FREENAS.amd64) #0 r262572+38751c8: Thu Mar 20 21:13:02 PDT 2014
[root@freenas] ~# zpool status
  pool: HomeData
 state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices could not be opened.  Sufficient replicas exist for
        the pool to continue functioning in a degraded state.
action: Attach the missing device and online it using 'zpool online'.
   see: http://illumos.org/msg/ZFS-8000-2Q
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h2m with 0 errors on Sun Jun  8 00:02:52 2014
config:

        NAME                                            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        HomeData                                        DEGRADED     0     0     0
          mirror-0                                      DEGRADED     0     0     0
            gptid/a794e0e3-bbf4-11e3-9b41-00044b16c3a2  ONLINE       0     0     0
            5726468597135835663                         UNAVAIL      0     0     0  was /dev/gptid/a806c886-bbf4-11e3-9b41-00044b16c3a2

errors: No known data errors
[root@freenas] ~# camcontrol devlist
<ST3320620AS 3.AAJ>                at scbus6 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass0)
<ST332062 0AS 3.AA>                at scbus9 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass1)
<Hitachi HDT721010SLA ST6O>        at scbus9 target 1 lun 0 (da1,pass2)
<ST1000DL 002-9TT153 CC32>         at scbus9 target 2 lun 0 (da2,pass3)
<ST1000DL 002-9TT153 CC32>         at scbus9 target 3 lun 0 (da3,pass4)
< USB DISK 2.0 PMAP>               at scbus14 target 0 lun 0 (pass5,da4)
[root@freenas] ~# zpool import
[root@freenas] ~# 

And then situation normal if I reconnect all drives to the mobo and auto-import with the web interface:

Code:

[root@freenas] ~# camcontrol devlist
<ST1000DL002-9TT153 CC32>          at scbus3 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass0)
<Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 ST6OA31B>  at scbus4 target 0 lun 0 (ada1,pass1)
<ST3320620AS 3.AAD>                at scbus5 target 0 lun 0 (ada2,pass2)
<ST3320620AS 3.AAJ>                at scbus6 target 0 lun 0 (ada3,pass3)
<ST1000DL002-9TT153 CC32>          at scbus7 target 0 lun 0 (ada4,pass4)
< USB DISK 2.0 PMAP>               at scbus14 target 0 lun 0 (pass5,da0)
[root@freenas] ~# zpool status
  pool: HomeData
 state: ONLINE
  scan: resilvered 580K in 0h0m with 0 errors on Mon Jul 14 12:12:45 2014
config:

        NAME                                            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        HomeData                                        ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-0                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a794e0e3-bbf4-11e3-9b41-00044b16c3a2  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a806c886-bbf4-11e3-9b41-00044b16c3a2  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

  pool: WorkData
 state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 1h28m with 0 errors on Sun Jun  8 01:28:03 2014
config:

        NAME                                                STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        WorkData                                            ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-0                                          ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/dcd0877e-bbf4-11e3-9b41-00044b16c3a2.eli  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/dd8791d7-bbf4-11e3-9b41-00044b16c3a2.eli  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

  pool: softservZFS
 state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 3h20m with 0 errors on Sun Jun  8 03:20:19 2014
config:

        NAME                                          STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        softservZFS                                   ONLINE       0     0     0
          gptid/5e8ab0dc-c15c-11e3-8a08-00044b16c3a2  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

 

[cyberjock]

The short answer.. do not use Highpoint hardware.. at all.

The long answer... do not use Highpoint hardware... at all... I discussed this in the hardware sticky for highpoint that their hardware just flat out sucks for ZFS and FreeBSD.