Freenas

chrome · 13-05-2008, 01:22

hi all i,m using freenas on a old computer with 2 hard drives 1 has the freenas partition plus data and the other just for data, on this one i know it is a 80gig hard drive ( came out of a old comp ) but freenas says it's 31 gig. i've lost 50 gig somewhere. it's driving me nuts. am i overlookin something simple , can any of you guys and girls help , many thanks

Druchii · 13-05-2008, 05:58

Check the jumpers on the HDD itself. They limit themselves to 32Gb when the jumper is missing on some models.

**David F** · 13-05-2008, 08:11

could well be that or it could be a none formatted partition. Would be easy to check in windows but on freenas I have no idea

Aragorn · 13-05-2008, 09:12

Open up a terminal window, switch to root (or use sudo) and type fdisk -l
This will give you the partition table of both drives.

chrome · 13-05-2008, 22:18

still having problems, i know it is a old computer ( one i had given to me ). i've formated the drive again and here are the results, which i have no idea about

Command output:

Erasing MBR and all partitions.
Creating partition:fdisk:
invalid fdisk partition table found
fdisk: WARNING line 1: number of cylinders (4111) may be out-of-range (must be within 1-1024 for normal BIOS operation, unless the entire disk is dedicated to FreeBSD)fdisk:

WARNING: adjusting size of partition 1 from 66055248 to 66043152 to end on a cylinder boundaryfdisk: Geom not found******* Working on device /dev/ad1 *******parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:cylinders=65531 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:cylinders=4111 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Information from DOS bootblock is:1: sysid 11 (0x0b),(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) start 63, size 66043152 (32247 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 14/ head 254/ sector 63
2:
3:
4: Initializing partition.Creating filesystem:/dev/ad1s1: 65914376 sectors in 8239297 FAT32 clusters (4096 bytes/cluster)bps=512 spc=8 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf0 spt=63 hds=16 hid=0 bsec=66043152 bspf=64370 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=2Done!

popper · 13-05-2008, 22:26

the machines built-in BIOS is to old to allow for the larger hardrive...perhaps.

the BIOS takes the info on the HD to calc its total size before any OS gets anywere near it.....hence it thinks its the far smaller usable size.

but i wonder if you just swapped over the original drive for this larger one and so the BIOS thinks its still got the small one in there due to not being set for auto configure the attached drive perhaps.

go into your BIOS and check to make sure its able to read the drive on the chain now and not set for a fixed size or drive No

what is this old pc btw way, full make and model no. might help find more info online for you.

chrome · 13-05-2008, 22:34

thanks for that, going have to go find a more upto date tower, what are the specs i'm lookin for. i want to put 3 or 4 hard drives in for storage of dvd music etc. thanks again

popper · 13-05-2008, 22:44

it depends , but what date does the BIOS screen info show when you power it up , that can help pin it down a little.

id say any machine/motherboard thats got a 2002 + date on the BIOS should be fine for most moden drive types and sizes, but earlyer can also work fine , it depends on the motherboard Bios fitted/programed into it OC.

chrome · 13-05-2008, 23:06

old is the reply . copyrighted 1984-99 only got a 344 processor, i think i need to go shopping. cant find exact date. i know i had to put extra ram. got that off ebay for £2.50

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but this is what i can't understand i thought i would try another server so i used ubuntu server package. picked the hard drives up no problem full 80 gig, but then it got far to complicated in setup and opperation

dragon · 13-05-2008, 23:57

I got around the Bios problem on an Old Dell optiplex gx1 using a £10 pci card off ebay

Although the gx1 was a bit fussy and I did have a bit of hasstle getting it working, never worked properly on freenas but did on Linux.

popper · 14-05-2008, 00:14

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Originally Posted by chrome

old is the reply . copyrighted 1984-99 only got a 344 processor, i think i need to go shopping. cant find exact date. i know i had to put extra ram. got that off ebay for £2.50

---------- Post added at 23:06 ---------- Previous post was at 23:03 ----------

but this is what i can't understand i thought i would try another server so i used ubuntu server package. picked the hard drives up no problem full 80 gig, but then it got far to complicated in setup and opperation

its not the BIOS then, sure freeNAS is freeBSD, but if Linux can see it so should BSD.

grab a Gparted liveCD and that will be linux probably, use that to totally reformat the drive , removing any and all partitions first.

then run FreeNAS again and see if it can then see all the drive space.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

assuming that PC can boot from a liveCD OC, but seeing as your using FreeNAS it does

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