ZFS Volume Manager - results in no Volume

[Triple]

I hope i am not asking a question that has been answered elsewhere, if so please accept my apology.

I have just installed 9.1.1 on a flashdrive for an AMD with 4gig of RAM.

Is there any diagnostic commands or logs that I should be looking at ?

 

[Triple]

I am seeing this in in messages

cat /var/log/messages Sep 4 16:00:00 freenas newsyslog[3965]: logfile turned over due to size>100K Sep 4 16:44:41 freenas notifier: dd: /dev/ada0: Operation not permitted Sep 4 16:44:41 freenas notifier: dd: /dev/ada0: Operation not permitted Sep 4 16:44:41 freenas manage.py: [middleware.exceptions:38] [MiddlewareError: Unable to GPT format the disk "ada0"] Sep 4 16:44:42 freenas manage.py: [common.pipesubr:57] Popen()ing: /usr/local/b in/warden list -v Sep 4 16:44:42 freenas last message repeated 2 times

 

[pirateghost]

Obvious question is: Do you have some drives attached that you want to create a volume on?

Is your controller compatible with freebsd?

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

 

[Triple]

This is a great question.

I am using an asus m4a88t-m and builtin controller AMD SB710. This board (after some googleing) appears in other peoples freenas builds. Additional evidence that I this should be OK, I can see the drives in via "View Disks"

I have seen indication that disabling SMART would help as some of the errors in messages log (above) appear HDD related.

 

[paleoN]

Sep 4 16:44:41 freenas notifier: dd: /dev/ada0: Operation not permitted Sep 4 16:44:41 freenas notifier: dd: /dev/ada0: Operation not permitted

The dd failed as there is existing metadata on this drive, the OS is protecting it. Wipe the drive with DBAN or the like. I would try a quick wipe first via the GUI.

 

[Triple]

good idea - dban running now - should be done next week "sometime" -- I hope -- 2x 1TB drives

BTW: found this cool tool for bootable USB Linux via this blog on creating a bootable DBAN

 

[cyberjock]

The quick wipe from the GUI takes like 5 seconds.. oh well.

 

[paleoN]

good idea - dban running now - should be done next week "sometime" -- I hope -- 2x 1TB drives

You only need to zero the drives and not the 3 pass DoD Short.