No umass entry in dmesg

[jack elliott]

FreeNAS 9.1.1 running on an older Dell laptop.

I'm trying different NAS solutions on an old laptop and figured I'd go ahead and use its internal HD for the FreeNAS OS and use an external 3TB USB HDD, formatted as EXT2, for file storage. Purely experimenting right now. FreeNAS is up and running but the webGUI's Import Volume function isn't finding a Member disk. I grepped dmesg to see if there was an entry for umass, but no. I reckon it might be helpful to post info about the computer's USB controller but I confess I don't know how to query the thing. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

 

[dlavigne]

It looks like this was fixed yesterday for the upcoming 9.2.0: https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/3465

 

[jack elliott]

dlavigne, thank you for responding. Until 9.2.0 is released, are there any diagnostics I can do or workarounds that might get me up and running?

 

[dlavigne]

If you're still just testing, BETA is due out today or shortly thereafter. I'm assuming that your goal is to copy off the EXT2 data onto internal storage? FreeNAS is not the right solution if your plan is to use the EXT2 USB device as storage...

 

[jack elliott]

Thank you. Okay, maybe FreeNAS is not what I'm looking for. Here's the story: the office was using a Synology Diskstation for serving files (not a lot of that, mostly file storage for occasional access) and as a backup location. The thing crashed and I though, "phooey, rather than buy another one, I'll take the two 3TB drives, put them into external USB enclosures and hook them up to this old Dell laptop." The next step was to find some kind of OS that would provide shared folders for file access and backup. If FreeNAS isn't an appropriate solution given the hardware I have, then there certainly isn't any reason to bang my head on this. Any ideas as to what might work for my needs? This is a mixed Linux and Windows environment.