One Bootdevice is detached, can't replace it.

[acidr4in]

I just Updated to 11.1 and one of my mirrored boot USB-Sticks was unavailable after boot.

So I unpluged the faulty one, inserted a new one that gets detected. My issue is now, I seems like I can't replace the the unavailable device. After replacing it in the UI I get the message "the device is getting replaced" but nothing seems to happen. Also there is no I/O burst on the new device according to reporting.

Is there a way to check the status, it can't take hours to copy 2GB via USB.

 

[Inabon]

Make sure it is the exact same brand and model as the one that is active otherwise it won't work.
Work around
1 download your config
2 buy 2 new ones
3 install freenas
4 restore config from backup
5 Mirror

Please ignore my comments if they are exactly the same :) but good for others to read I had a blast trying to mirror non equal usbs hahahaahaha

 

[acidr4in]

They are exactly the same model.

I now managed atleast to detatch the one I removed, had to mount it again then detaching worked. Now I can't mirror them. As before I get the msg "Disk sucessfully attached" but my boot volume still shows up as striped.

All I get frome the console is this:
Dec 23 12:14:39 freenas ZFS: vdev state changed, pool_guid=6601219723253815418 vdev_guid=1529431009989607350

Does restoring from config keep all my zvols and VMs unchanged?

 

[Inabon]

Does restoring from config keep all my zvols and VMs unchanged?

yes it does :)

about usbs make sure they were formatted and partitioned the same.

Try this:
wipe disk that is not being mirrored and detach
go to your pc with the usb
1. run diskpart
on diskpart use these commands

1. list disk should show you ids for each drive you have
2. type select disk whatevernumber for usb (use the id if you only have 1 hard drive it will be id 1 but your all depends on your system)
3. make sure you chose the usb id not your main drive
4. make sure you chose the usb id not your main drive
5. make sure you chose the usb id not your main drive (see what i did there??)
6. type clean
7. type create partition primary
8. format with windows make sure it has the correct size

take back to freenas.

these instructions are what i remember i spent yesterday doing them back and forth trying to mirror only to end up doing backup new config hehe