I hope somebody has encountered and successfully resolved the issue I am about to detail below. Thank you for finding the time and energy to keep all this going.
I have a dell E520 with the following specs
FreeNAS-8.3.1-RC1-x64 (r13329)
Platform Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Memory 3822MB
I put two 3TB drives, configured them in mirror setup (software). Then setup the ISCSI as a device extent. Then I proceeded to initiate a connection from a win 2008 R2 server. After establishing connection I formatted the new drive NTFS and shared it. Then I moved some important files having no other backup. The moving went great. I think the next day I initiated another connection from another win 2008 r2 to the scsi and I think I was able to see the ntfs formated drive. A couple of days later the scsi became unavailable and I get errors that the drive is unreadable and needs to be formated. the volume health is reported healthy from freenas gui. Now if i connect one server to freenas i am asked to format the drive and don't want to do it. I don't want to loose the date. Is there a way for me to repair/recover/restore the connection or the data? I would appreciate specific commands and steps if possible.
Thank you
I have a dell E520 with the following specs
FreeNAS-8.3.1-RC1-x64 (r13329)
Platform Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Memory 3822MB
I put two 3TB drives, configured them in mirror setup (software). Then setup the ISCSI as a device extent. Then I proceeded to initiate a connection from a win 2008 R2 server. After establishing connection I formatted the new drive NTFS and shared it. Then I moved some important files having no other backup. The moving went great. I think the next day I initiated another connection from another win 2008 r2 to the scsi and I think I was able to see the ntfs formated drive. A couple of days later the scsi became unavailable and I get errors that the drive is unreadable and needs to be formated. the volume health is reported healthy from freenas gui. Now if i connect one server to freenas i am asked to format the drive and don't want to do it. I don't want to loose the date. Is there a way for me to repair/recover/restore the connection or the data? I would appreciate specific commands and steps if possible.
Thank you