Hi folks,
I have the weirdest problem that I've been scratching my head over for the past two days.
I moved my boot ssd and the two 16TB disks that make up my ZFS pool from a supermicro-based build to a more power friendly EliteDesk 800 G3 build.
I could boot into TrueNAS just fine, but the two data disks were nowhere to be seen, even though they appear in the machine's BIOS.
By "nowhere to be seen" I mean fdisk -l would not show them neither would blkid. dmesg only stated SATA link down for the affected ports.
I tried every BIOS setting permutation I could think of, rebooting constantly - nothing.
Then I created a Ubuntu USB stick to see if the OS was the issue. Booted into Ubuntu - no problem at all, disks show up perfectly in fdisk.
Incredulous I reboot into TrueNAS - now they show up there too!
So I now have the setup working nice, but in a very brittle state: if I simply reboot, the disks stay visible to TrueNAS, but if I shut down and start up again (without removing power), I need to go through the whole "boot ubuntu from usb" first.
I am totally at a loss here, in all of my years of computing I have not experienced such inexplainable weirdness.
Does anyone of you have an idea what could be going on? I'd be very grateful!
Some details, let me know any more info you need:
EliteDesk BIOS is latest: 02.46 Rev.A
Disks are two Toshiba MG08ACA16TE.
TrueNAS is TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.3.1
Ubuntu is version 23.04
I have the weirdest problem that I've been scratching my head over for the past two days.
I moved my boot ssd and the two 16TB disks that make up my ZFS pool from a supermicro-based build to a more power friendly EliteDesk 800 G3 build.
I could boot into TrueNAS just fine, but the two data disks were nowhere to be seen, even though they appear in the machine's BIOS.
By "nowhere to be seen" I mean fdisk -l would not show them neither would blkid. dmesg only stated SATA link down for the affected ports.
I tried every BIOS setting permutation I could think of, rebooting constantly - nothing.
Then I created a Ubuntu USB stick to see if the OS was the issue. Booted into Ubuntu - no problem at all, disks show up perfectly in fdisk.
Incredulous I reboot into TrueNAS - now they show up there too!
So I now have the setup working nice, but in a very brittle state: if I simply reboot, the disks stay visible to TrueNAS, but if I shut down and start up again (without removing power), I need to go through the whole "boot ubuntu from usb" first.
I am totally at a loss here, in all of my years of computing I have not experienced such inexplainable weirdness.
Does anyone of you have an idea what could be going on? I'd be very grateful!
Some details, let me know any more info you need:
EliteDesk BIOS is latest: 02.46 Rev.A
Disks are two Toshiba MG08ACA16TE.
TrueNAS is TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.3.1
Ubuntu is version 23.04