Only seeing 10 out of 12 drives

[Nik_s]

I've just completed building my FreeNAS box. It has 12x1TB drives, four attached to the onboard Intel SATA controller and eight attached to a Highpoint 2720SGL. On first boot I was missing a number of drives on the Highpoint controller, so I booted into the GPARTED LiveCD distribution which saw all of the drives. In GPARTED I initialized each drive with a new GPT partition table which seemed to work correctly, i.e. it didn't give any error messages. When I restarted FreeNAS, the volume manager saw 10 of the 12 drives, with the two missing drives on the Highpoint controller. The output from the "glabel status" command is:

Name Status Components
ufs/FreeNASs3 N/A da6s3
ufs/FreeNASs4 N/A da6s4
ufs/FreeNASs1a N/A da6s1a
gptid/548bbe77-1a21-11e2-aa78-00224d80b31a N/A ada0p2
gptid/54d9abda-1a21-11e2-aa78-00224d80b31a N/A ada1p2
gptid/558ad617-1a21-11e2-aa78-00224d80b31a N/A ada2p2
gptid/562f5261-1a21-11e2-aa78-00224d80b31a N/A ada3p2
gptid/56762846-1a21-11e2-aa78-00224d80b31a N/A da0p2
gptid/56b24b82-1a21-11e2-aa78-00224d80b31a N/A da1p2
gptid/56e81f4a-1a21-11e2-aa78-00224d80b31a N/A da2p2
gptid/57319817-1a21-11e2-aa78-00224d80b31a N/A da3p2
gptid/576da728-1a21-11e2-aa78-00224d80b31a N/A da4p2
gptid/57b640aa-1a21-11e2-aa78-00224d80b31a N/A da5p2

Can anybody see what I might be doing wrong, or suggest additional commands that I can use to diagnose the problem with the two missing drives?

 

[ProtoSD]

Gparted is a LINUX tool, FreeBSD/FreeNAS are not Linux. So being that it was Linux, it will have a different kernel and drivers.

You need to post the version of FreeNAS you're using. If I remember, the latest 8.3 will have more recent Highpoint drivers that Noobsauce80 made a post about.

You can try camcontrol devlist

There is also this blog post with useful commands for diagnosing/managing disks in FreeNAS.

http://protosd.blogspot.com/2011/12/useful-commands-for-diagnosingmanaging.html

 

[Saeed A Siddiki]

hi nik - this might sound very trivial but i was having the same issue - it was as simple as a power plug and SATA cable mis-connection. Just double check those --- my new propbem after ideniftying all teh drives is - wrong capacities

4 X 1TB * = *4
3X 2TB*= *6
2X 3TB *= *6
1X * 750GB = *750 GB *

16TB physical*
-3tb overhead (in theory)

i should end up at least with 12 TB OR 10TB ---

BUT WHATS SHOWING under
RAIDZ IS 5.6TB*and
under RAIDZ2 5.3TB

 

[cyberjock]

Come on.. 5 posts now? For the same issue.