Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 06/03/12 20:59, Kaya Saman wrote: this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS server with 2x 2TB disks and 2x4TB disks

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/04/2012 04:42 AM, Zane C. B-H. wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 02:06:57 +0100 Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. Here's what's going on. I

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/04/2012 08:34 AM, Gary Aitken wrote: On 06/03/12 20:59, Kaya Saman wrote: this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/04/2012 08:34 AM, Gary Aitken wrote: On 06/03/12 20:59, Kaya Saman wrote: this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS

RE: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kaya Saman Sent: 04 June 2012 02:07 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Strange case of vanishing disk Hi, this is a very strange issue but I guess will either

RE: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I reckon as stated at the beginning that either the 180Watt PSU inside the system isn't enough or the controller is just really poor?? well i got through the same. changing PSU, forced a seller to replace my motherboard (got NEW, not the same - checked), checked all cables, even changing

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I just offlined the system and took a look at the BIOS. The hard disk controller was set to ATA NATIVE, I attempted changing to AHCI and the system failed to boot thereafter. do you have ahci and ada drivers compiled in? Booting into my rescue CD of FreeSBIE, with AHCI enabled only showed

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/04/2012 06:26 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I just offlined the system and took a look at the BIOS. The hard disk controller was set to ATA NATIVE, I attempted changing to AHCI and the system failed to boot thereafter. do you have ahci and ada drivers compiled in? Booting into my

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:20:13 +0100 Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/04/2012 04:42 AM, Zane C. B-H. wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 02:06:57 +0100 Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: snip I've just tried this and lost my whole system. My boot disk is not labeled to work

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/05/2012 12:50 AM, Zane C. B-H. wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:20:13 +0100 Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/04/2012 04:42 AM, Zane C. B-H. wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 02:06:57 +0100 Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: snip I've just tried this and lost my whole system.

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:03:59 +0100, Kaya Saman wrote: I had a small issue at the bootloader prompt, my USB keyboard didn't work as in it seems the kernel modules weren't loaded in order for the keys to function. Not sure how to get round that one :-) Check the BIOS settings: Sometimes you

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/05/2012 01:09 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:03:59 +0100, Kaya Saman wrote: I had a small issue at the bootloader prompt, my USB keyboard didn't work as in it seems the kernel modules weren't loaded in order for the keys to function. Not sure how to get round that one :-)

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS server with 2x 2TB disks and 2x4TB disks as storage - all spread out over 2

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-03 Thread Kaya Saman
this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS server with 2x 2TB disks and 2x4TB disks as storage - all spread out over 2 ZFS

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-03 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 02:06:57 +0100 Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX