Hi guys! Thanks so much for making such a knowledgeable forum! I've read the primers, how to guides and done lots of searching.
A little backstory:
I was gifted an awesome server that's about 5 years old. It was single CPU with only 4GB of RAM. I was going to drop it off at the local ewaste recycler before realizing what a great machine I had! It was a office server for a dentist's office and was rather bare bones having only one CPU and 4 GB of memory. Adding a second CPU and 56GB of memory was about $150 thanks to ebay. All the memory is ECC. The machine has a RAID controller that I can't bypass since it sits behind the drive cage. I have six new 3TB drives on order, but until then doing some testing (memory and CPU stress test) and installing.
The machine has two disks in said array, and the RAID card is configured to set each drive as a "logical disk". This is the closest I could come to JBOD as I can't completely disable the RAID controller.
Here's what's making me nervous:
In web GUI > FreeNas > Storage > Volumes > View Disks
I only see da1
When I do:
camcontrol devlist
<HP RAID 0 OK> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0)
<HP RAID 0 OK> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,da1)
<V4-CT128V4SSD1 S5FAMM25> at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass2)
<CT128V4SSD2 S5FAMM25> at scbus3 target 0 lun 0 (ada1,pass3)
<hp DVDROM DH40N IS01> at scbus5 target 0 lun 0 (pass4,cd0)
I can add BOTH drives to a new volume, but nervous that I can only see one disk (da1 and not da0).
Any suggestions or is this a forever buggy problem with HP raid cards? This machine is built like a tank and runs pretty quiet. I don't plan on running it 24/7, maybe turning it on once a week to do backups from my desktops/work machines. My home office deals with tons of large graphic files that I move around often.
I'm going to be asking some more "best practice" questions in other forums, so thanks again for the great support!
A little backstory:
I was gifted an awesome server that's about 5 years old. It was single CPU with only 4GB of RAM. I was going to drop it off at the local ewaste recycler before realizing what a great machine I had! It was a office server for a dentist's office and was rather bare bones having only one CPU and 4 GB of memory. Adding a second CPU and 56GB of memory was about $150 thanks to ebay. All the memory is ECC. The machine has a RAID controller that I can't bypass since it sits behind the drive cage. I have six new 3TB drives on order, but until then doing some testing (memory and CPU stress test) and installing.
The machine has two disks in said array, and the RAID card is configured to set each drive as a "logical disk". This is the closest I could come to JBOD as I can't completely disable the RAID controller.
Here's what's making me nervous:
In web GUI > FreeNas > Storage > Volumes > View Disks
I only see da1
When I do:
camcontrol devlist
<HP RAID 0 OK> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0)
<HP RAID 0 OK> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,da1)
<V4-CT128V4SSD1 S5FAMM25> at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass2)
<CT128V4SSD2 S5FAMM25> at scbus3 target 0 lun 0 (ada1,pass3)
<hp DVDROM DH40N IS01> at scbus5 target 0 lun 0 (pass4,cd0)
I can add BOTH drives to a new volume, but nervous that I can only see one disk (da1 and not da0).
Any suggestions or is this a forever buggy problem with HP raid cards? This machine is built like a tank and runs pretty quiet. I don't plan on running it 24/7, maybe turning it on once a week to do backups from my desktops/work machines. My home office deals with tons of large graphic files that I move around often.
I'm going to be asking some more "best practice" questions in other forums, so thanks again for the great support!
