I have a 16 drive chassis that has a redundant expander backplanes for multipathing. I was using all 16 bays, but took out 8 drives to replace with new bigger drives. Everything related to the backplane seemed to be working just fine... prior to me plugging the new drives in and trying to create a pool. They showed up as
The FreeNAS UI wasn't letting me create a pool. I would select all my drives, select raidz2, but the create button was greyed out. So I tried via shell. See what I tried here:
These all show up in a
Any thoughts of what to try next? Kind of at a loss of where to go from here.
/dev/da24-31
.The FreeNAS UI wasn't letting me create a pool. I would select all my drives, select raidz2, but the create button was greyed out. So I tried via shell. See what I tried here:
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root@zahra:~ # zpool create volume4 raidz2 da24 da25 da26 da27 da28 da29 da30 da31 cannot create 'volume4': no such pool or dataset root@zahra:~ # zpool create -f volume4 raidz2 da24 da25 da26 da27 da28 da29 da30 da31 cannot create 'volume4': no such pool or dataset # Thinking I needed to maybe try zero-ing a super block root@zahra:~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da24 bs=1M count=1 dd: /dev/da24: Operation not permitted
These all show up in a
geom disk list
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Geom name: da24 Providers: 1. Name: da24 Mediasize: 12000138625024 (11T) Sectorsize: 512 Stripesize: 4096 Stripeoffset: 0 Mode: r1w1e1 descr: ATA HGST HUH721212AL lunid: 5000cca291ca170c ident: 5PGR62ZF rotationrate: 7200 fwsectors: 63 fwheads: 255 Geom name: da25 Providers: 1. Name: da25 Mediasize: 12000138625024 (11T) Sectorsize: 512 Stripesize: 4096 Stripeoffset: 0 Mode: r1w1e1 descr: ATA HGST HUH721212AL lunid: 5000cca291ca1386 ident: 5PGR54WE rotationrate: 7200 fwsectors: 63 fwheads: 255 Geom name: da26 Providers: 1. Name: da26 Mediasize: 12000138625024 (11T) Sectorsize: 512 Stripesize: 4096 Stripeoffset: 0 Mode: r1w1e1 descr: ATA HGST HUH721212AL lunid: 5000cca291c6b64e ident: 5PGGSRWD rotationrate: 7200 fwsectors: 63 fwheads: 255 Geom name: da27 Providers: 1. Name: da27 Mediasize: 12000138625024 (11T) Sectorsize: 512 Stripesize: 4096 Stripeoffset: 0 Mode: r1w1e1 descr: ATA HGST HUH721212AL lunid: 5000cca291ca2f6b ident: 5PGRDL7F rotationrate: 7200 fwsectors: 63 fwheads: 255 Geom name: da28 Providers: 1. Name: da28 Mediasize: 12000138625024 (11T) Sectorsize: 512 Stripesize: 4096 Stripeoffset: 0 Mode: r1w1e1 descr: ATA HGST HUH721212AL lunid: 5000cca291c97350 ident: 5PGNTGVF rotationrate: 7200 fwsectors: 63 fwheads: 255 Geom name: da29 Providers: 1. Name: da29 Mediasize: 12000138625024 (11T) Sectorsize: 512 Stripesize: 4096 Stripeoffset: 0 Mode: r1w1e1 descr: ATA HGST HUH721212AL lunid: 5000cca291ca2f5f ident: 5PGRDKVF rotationrate: 7200 fwsectors: 63 fwheads: 255 Geom name: da30 Providers: 1. Name: da30 Mediasize: 12000138625024 (11T) Sectorsize: 512 Stripesize: 4096 Stripeoffset: 0 Mode: r1w1e1 descr: ATA HGST HUH721212AL lunid: 5000cca291ca2c66 ident: 5PGRBT9F rotationrate: 7200 fwsectors: 63 fwheads: 255 Geom name: da31 Providers: 1. Name: da31 Mediasize: 12000138625024 (11T) Sectorsize: 512 Stripesize: 4096 Stripeoffset: 0 Mode: r1w1e1 descr: ATA HGST HUH721212AL lunid: 5000cca291c485df ident: 5PG9YETC rotationrate: 7200 fwsectors: 63 fwheads: 255
Any thoughts of what to try next? Kind of at a loss of where to go from here.