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I built a new FN machine last month and spent hundreds of hours reading and learning about FreeNAS as I configured my system. I had users and several shares connected and working; I uploaded all of my personal files and media from my previous NAS; I even configured and was using Plex. Then my daughter pushed the power button and forced an improper shutdown.
Since then, I've been plagued by a host of troubles, and I've spent countless hours chasing the source. When the system came back up, the main volume was UNAVAIL (but other drives on the same LSI 2308 controller were still connected). I started a thread in the storage section, read pages of threads, updated firmware, and changed all SATA cables. Sometimes the drives came back, but under heavy load faulted again. Various problems persisted. Then I saved a copy of my config, formatted, and re-installed FN 11.1 from disk.
After that, two of six drives showed up as degraded, so I ran a scrub, which cleaned up 3.2 MILLION errors, according to the final report. I then used the machine for a few days, updated back to 11.1-U2, and backed up my data to a spare drive, just in case. All seemed good.
So I put my config file back. After that, the machine had an abnormal reboot, and the volume was unavail again, and the system was generall unresponsive and wouldn't let me access pages like "users" and "system."
QUESTIONS:
Can a FN config become corrupted and cause hard drive and GUI issues?
Depending on that answer, should I go back to the drawing board and manually configure the entire machine fresh?
I'm trying to hold off on replacing hard drives and/or motherboard (onboard HBA) until I've eliminated all other possibilities.
Thanks
I built a new FN machine last month and spent hundreds of hours reading and learning about FreeNAS as I configured my system. I had users and several shares connected and working; I uploaded all of my personal files and media from my previous NAS; I even configured and was using Plex. Then my daughter pushed the power button and forced an improper shutdown.
Since then, I've been plagued by a host of troubles, and I've spent countless hours chasing the source. When the system came back up, the main volume was UNAVAIL (but other drives on the same LSI 2308 controller were still connected). I started a thread in the storage section, read pages of threads, updated firmware, and changed all SATA cables. Sometimes the drives came back, but under heavy load faulted again. Various problems persisted. Then I saved a copy of my config, formatted, and re-installed FN 11.1 from disk.
After that, two of six drives showed up as degraded, so I ran a scrub, which cleaned up 3.2 MILLION errors, according to the final report. I then used the machine for a few days, updated back to 11.1-U2, and backed up my data to a spare drive, just in case. All seemed good.
So I put my config file back. After that, the machine had an abnormal reboot, and the volume was unavail again, and the system was generall unresponsive and wouldn't let me access pages like "users" and "system."
QUESTIONS:
Can a FN config become corrupted and cause hard drive and GUI issues?
Depending on that answer, should I go back to the drawing board and manually configure the entire machine fresh?
I'm trying to hold off on replacing hard drives and/or motherboard (onboard HBA) until I've eliminated all other possibilities.
Thanks
