Upgrade 8.3.0 to 9.3.0 and Individual Drives Drives - No Current Raid

[photontech]

I am running FreeNas 8.3.0. I built a new machine with a Realtek Gigabit NIC on board. I am running 4 different individual drives in 8.3.0. FreeNAS 8.3 does not recognize the RealTek NIC. If I upgrade to 9.3.0 what happens to my individual drives since it seems like some type of RAID needs to be used with the ZFS file system? If I want to keep 8.3.0 on the new machine what NICs are compatible to FreeNAS 8.3.0? I do not want to lose my 3 TB of data on the individual drives. Please let me know. Thanks!

 

[solarisguy]

UFS? Stay at FreeNAS 9.2.1.9

 

[photontech]

I am running FreeNas 8.3.0. I built a new machine with a Realtek Gigabit NIC on board. I am running 4 different individual drives in 8.3.0. FreeNAS 8.3 does not recognize the RealTek NIC. If I upgrade to 9.3.0 what happens to my individual drives since it seems like some type of RAID needs to be used with the ZFS file system? If I want to keep 8.3.0 on the new machine what NICs are compatible to FreeNAS 8.3.0? I do not want to lose my 3 TB of data on the individual drives. Please let me know. Thanks!

UFS? Stay at FreeNAS 9.2.1.9

Thank you for the info. I guess 9.2.1.9 supports Realtek Nics?

 

[SweetAndLow]

Don't use realtek nics, support is mostly the same with all versions of freenas. You will have to configure them manually and expect terrible performance.

 

[solarisguy]

Don't use realtek nics, support is mostly the same with all versions of freenas. You will have to configure them manually and expect terrible performance.

It might be exactly as SweetAndLow said, but for a year I used a RealTek NIC with FreeNAS 8.2.3 and 9.x, and beyond getting less than 80% of throughput of a quality Intel NIC (slightly above 80MB/s), I did not notice anything unusual.

 

[photontech]

It might be exactly as SweetAndLow said, but for a year I used a RealTek NIC with FreeNAS 8.2.3 and 9.x, and beyond getting less than 80% of throughput of a quality Intel NIC (slightly above 80MB/s), I did not notice anything unusual.

What is best NIC to purchase for 9.2.1.9? Thank you.

 

[photontech]

UFS? Stay at FreeNAS 9.2.1.9

Loaded 9.2.1.9 onto flash drive and when trying to boot on new machine I get "GPT table corrupt or invalid". Reloaded USB drive from CD again and during that install to USB I saw the same GPT message. IS the .iso file I downloaded bad or do I need to delete partitions on USB and set as GPT drive in windows. I guess the windows 1 has nothing to do with it. This is the same 8GB drive I loaded 9.3.0 on and that booted fine on new machine. Thanks again.

 

[solarisguy]

Zero the entire USB drive before placing on it any FreeNAS version. On non-Windows you can do
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/USB_TO_BE_ERASED
Just be extra careful, and not erase anything else...

However, you may want to use Windows and Rufus http://rufus.akeo.ie/
It has a a special key combination Alt-Z that will perform exactly that task (probably safer than trying to guess an argument to dd).

 

[gpsguy]

Get an Intel Pro/1000 CT. OEM version costs about $35 USD.

What is best NIC to purchase for 9.2.1.9? Thank you.

 

[photontech]

Zero the entire USB drive before placing on it any FreeNAS version. On non-Windows you can do
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/USB_TO_BE_ERASED
Just be extra careful, and not erase anything else...

However, you may want to use Windows and Rufus http://rufus.akeo.ie/
It has a a special key combination Alt-Z that will perform exactly that task (probably safer than trying to guess an argument to dd).

I loaded Rufus in Windows, unchecked all boxes and did a full format and boom 9.2.1.9 booted on my machine. Thank you for the info. Well appreciated!

 

[solarisguy]

I loaded Rufus in Windows, unchecked all boxes and did a full format and boom 9.2.1.9 booted on my machine. Thank you for the info. Well appreciated!

Maybe I misunderstood what you did, but you were not supposed to do any formatting, since that is not guaranteed to erase information from the USB.

You were supposed to select your USB in Rufus and press Alt-Z

P.S.
Glad the installation went OK for you!

 

[photontech]

Yes I tried Alt-Z and nothing happened. Thank you for your help. I do have another question. One of my drives I believe has the USF partition corrupted. Is there anyway to try and fix the table so I can retrieve data. The drive is picked up in the BIOS. I cannot import into Freenas through the WebGUI. Get message "The selected disks were not verified for this import rules." And on the DOS screen it say "ahcich2: Timeout on slot 0 port 0". The drive did come up with a SMART error by the BIOS when booting but I was have still been able to access and transfer data. In fact I interrupted a data transfer in windows and then this problem occurred. Just trying to get data off the drive to pull it out and ditch it. Thank you again for your help!

 

[solarisguy]

Yes I tried Alt-Z and nothing happened. Thank you for your help. I do have another question. One of my drives I believe has the USF partition corrupted. Is there anyway to try and fix the table so I can retrieve data. The drive is picked up in the BIOS. I cannot import into Freenas through the WebGUI. Get message "The selected disks were not verified for this import rules." And on the DOS screen it say "ahcich2: Timeout on slot 0 port 0". The drive did come up with a SMART error by the BIOS when booting but I was have still been able to access and transfer data. In fact I interrupted a data transfer in windows and then this problem occurred. Just trying to get data off the drive to pull it out and ditch it. Thank you again for your help!

I have no idea about a recovery in your case