After much (much) fighting, I finally ended up doing the following procedure:
- Boot the system with just one of the QSFP cables connected and all the HDDs disconnected
- Once booted, one-drive-at-a-time doing the following, and do NOT do anything else:
- Insert drive into shelf
- While watching logs, wait for initial recognition by FreeNAS
- Once recognized, wait for FreeNAS to finish probing the drive (will show the drive size in the logs) - takes about a minute
- If the drive never makes it to 2.3 then the drive is irrecoverable (at least as for as I can tell). Remove and go to the next.
- Now run `zpool import` to see what drives are recognized. If it takes more than a couple minutes to get an answer, the newly inserted drive is bad as well. Remove and you will likely have to start-over by rebooting, and inserting one at a time, skipping the bad drives you already identified.
- Now, `zpool import {poolname}`
- Mine threw an error so I had to do `zpool import -F {poolname}` then `zpool scrub {poolname}`
- Much of the drives were corrupted so I am archiving data, and going to reconstruct the entire project without the Netapp system entirely.
Thanks for the help, much apppreciated! :)
P.S. Merry Christmas!