DGenerateKane
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- Sep 4, 2014
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One of my pools consists of 5 desktop drives that I re-purposed when I built my NAS last year. One day while I was waiting for FreeNAS to boot I saw a bunch of warning messages about those drives. Apparently there is a bug in the firmware that could cause the drive to fail if S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics were used on them. It gave me two links for more information, http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/223571en and http://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks. My question is, can I update the firmware on the drives in the NAS while they are part of a pool? If not, what do I need to do in order to remove the drives and update them on another machine? I'm backing everything up now but if I don't have to create a new pool and start over that would be preferred. The instructions for updating it aren't even clear regardless. I am supposed to connect the drive to the primary master position, which doesn't exist with SATA drives as far as I know.