Hi all,
I am quite new to FreeNAS but already quite fond of it. I have built a new system, 6X 4TB HDDs into Z1 and ended up with about 16.x TB. this setup worked ok for few weeks, then I added a new RAID card (LSI 9650SE-24M8) with 4 x 2TB HDD on top the six drives.
I configured the RAID card as JBOD and added the 4 drives as Z1 again, but instead of adding a new data storage pool I expanded the existing pool with this new HDDs. All seemed working fine for few hours.
I wanted to test/simulate HDD failure and see if/how FreeNAS can recover from a single HDD failure, I shut down the system and removed one drive from the RAID card and powered the PC back up.
To my suprise it did not boot up anymore. I mean it boots up but I can not access the FreeNAS interface anymore. The BIOS is recognising the RAID card and if I go into the RAID card BIOS I can see all 4 HDDs.
If I remove the RAID card and the 4x 2TB HDDs FreenNAS boots up and i can access the interface, but the data pool is not there and can not get anything to work. I am new and I accept i may have done something wrong, I am suprised though a single HDD failure (although caused by me as a test) can cause such a meyhem. In any case I am lookig for some help please? Let me know if you need any logs I will try to collect them and post them here.
Many thanks in advance.
I am quite new to FreeNAS but already quite fond of it. I have built a new system, 6X 4TB HDDs into Z1 and ended up with about 16.x TB. this setup worked ok for few weeks, then I added a new RAID card (LSI 9650SE-24M8) with 4 x 2TB HDD on top the six drives.
I configured the RAID card as JBOD and added the 4 drives as Z1 again, but instead of adding a new data storage pool I expanded the existing pool with this new HDDs. All seemed working fine for few hours.
I wanted to test/simulate HDD failure and see if/how FreeNAS can recover from a single HDD failure, I shut down the system and removed one drive from the RAID card and powered the PC back up.
To my suprise it did not boot up anymore. I mean it boots up but I can not access the FreeNAS interface anymore. The BIOS is recognising the RAID card and if I go into the RAID card BIOS I can see all 4 HDDs.
If I remove the RAID card and the 4x 2TB HDDs FreenNAS boots up and i can access the interface, but the data pool is not there and can not get anything to work. I am new and I accept i may have done something wrong, I am suprised though a single HDD failure (although caused by me as a test) can cause such a meyhem. In any case I am lookig for some help please? Let me know if you need any logs I will try to collect them and post them here.
Many thanks in advance.