David Henrickson
Explorer
- Joined
- Jul 26, 2017
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Hello everyone!
I wanted to say thank you to the volunteers that have the "know all" to help us whom do not have that. Awesome! With that said...I have an issue
I purchased (4) 4TB hard drives. I did it in batches of 2. I installed the first 2 drives just to test out the system. Learn it and whatnot. I found out they have 520 sector allocation, so changing that to 512 has proven VERY difficult so far, as I do not have an operating system that can do that conversion. Anyway, I typed in a few codes I found regarding sg_format in the SHELL on Freenas to learn what the drive is and then all of a sudden POOF, one of my two hard drives is just not showing up anymore. It was da0, now the only drive that shows up is da1.
I received the next two hard drives in the mail today (512 sector) in hopes of at least starting ONE volume so that I can get freenas up and running while I work on the missing one. I installed them and now I still only have 3 hard drives showing up. One showing 4.1TB (the 520 sector hard drive) and two at 4TB. Still missing the one hard drive. Green light on the server, btw (T610 with H200), so I know the server has to see it. Ideas? Suggestions? well....actually on any of my issues? lol
The help would be much appreciated. I tried to install the 2 new ones on a volume by themselves today, and to my best luck received yet another error that they could not be done. Currently formatting them with all zeros (which the 520 sector HDD did NOT let me start). Hoping that will fix that. Side note 34....I also bought the H200 off of eBay and I am not 100% sure it is flashed to IT mode....is there a way to tell? I cannot setup a THING on the H200 in the BIOS when I hit ctrl-C at startup, so I was "assuming" (yep, I'm apparently an ass) that it was already flashed. struggling guys....I just want it to work so that i can convince my wife to get off of the Comcast teet.
I wanted to say thank you to the volunteers that have the "know all" to help us whom do not have that. Awesome! With that said...I have an issue
I purchased (4) 4TB hard drives. I did it in batches of 2. I installed the first 2 drives just to test out the system. Learn it and whatnot. I found out they have 520 sector allocation, so changing that to 512 has proven VERY difficult so far, as I do not have an operating system that can do that conversion. Anyway, I typed in a few codes I found regarding sg_format in the SHELL on Freenas to learn what the drive is and then all of a sudden POOF, one of my two hard drives is just not showing up anymore. It was da0, now the only drive that shows up is da1.
I received the next two hard drives in the mail today (512 sector) in hopes of at least starting ONE volume so that I can get freenas up and running while I work on the missing one. I installed them and now I still only have 3 hard drives showing up. One showing 4.1TB (the 520 sector hard drive) and two at 4TB. Still missing the one hard drive. Green light on the server, btw (T610 with H200), so I know the server has to see it. Ideas? Suggestions? well....actually on any of my issues? lol
The help would be much appreciated. I tried to install the 2 new ones on a volume by themselves today, and to my best luck received yet another error that they could not be done. Currently formatting them with all zeros (which the 520 sector HDD did NOT let me start). Hoping that will fix that. Side note 34....I also bought the H200 off of eBay and I am not 100% sure it is flashed to IT mode....is there a way to tell? I cannot setup a THING on the H200 in the BIOS when I hit ctrl-C at startup, so I was "assuming" (yep, I'm apparently an ass) that it was already flashed. struggling guys....I just want it to work so that i can convince my wife to get off of the Comcast teet.