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Petah
Asked: 2013-07-12 14:04:27 +0800 CST

FreeNAS not detecting hard drive

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I have a FreeNAS box (OS install onto USB), with 2 hard drives in it. In the GUI its only showing 1 (ada0).

How do I make it detect the other one?

They are both showing in dmesg:

ada0 at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0                                     
ada0: <WDC WD20EZRX-00DC0B0 80.00A80> ATA-9 SATA 3.x device                     
ada0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)                    
ada0: Command Queueing enabled                                                  
ada0: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)                 
ada1 at ahcich2 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0                                     
ada1: <WDC WD20EZRX-00DC0B0 80.00A80> ATA-9 SATA 3.x device                     
ada1: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)                    
ada1: Command Queueing enabled                                                  
ada1: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)    
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2 Answers

  1. I found the root cause of the problem. The system hides the drive it uses not listed. If you are using a USB drive to your system, you will not have these problems.

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  2. Have a nice day.

    Well, we're not having more information to give a specific answer, but there are some points to look.

    1) If you use GPARTED (if you have this), can you see the 2 drives? Because one problem could be an error when mounting the device.

    2) If you run..

    ls -al /dev/sd*

    What is the result?

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