SOLVED Moving from 8.3.0 to 11.3

kmac

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For many years I have run Freenas 8.3.0 Release P1 with no issues on an machine with an Intel Pentium E5200 CPU, Intel DG45FC mini-ITX board and 4GB of non-ECC RAM.
However, this version on supports SMB1 which apparently has security issues so I want to move to 11.3

I have acquired an Intel Server Board S1200KP (which has Intel chipset NICs), a Xeon E3-1225 v2 CPU and 8GB of DDR3 1333mHz ECC RAM (i will upgrade this to 16Gb soon)
I have installed a clean version of Freenas 11.3 on a 16GB USB stick.

Now I want to import the two HDDs that were running in 8.3
When i try and do this from the Web GUI, I am presented with 4 available options for selecting "disk":
/dev/ada0p1
/dev/ada0p2
/dev/ada1p1
/dev/ada1p2

ada0 is a ITB Samsung HDD and ada1 is a WD Red 1TB HDD
Selecting any of the above and trying to import gives me an "Invalid argument" error

Is it even possible to import the disks and is do how do I do it?
I have looked at the 11.3 manual but it just says select the disk and destination
Any pointers greatly appreciated
 

kmac

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Seems that 11.3 does not support UFS so I may have to get a new HDD and create a ZFS pool and then get the data across to the ZFS pool
I thought my original disks were ZFS though
 
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kmac

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For anyone interested, i was trying to import my Freenas 8.3 ZFS pools using "Import disk" when i should have been using "Import pool"
This latter process worked fine and I am now up and running on 11.3 hooray!
 
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