bought a cheap server

[gamerdude1989]

Okay figured out the DHCPREQUEST loop issue..
Random... Because i had the server set to 192.168.1.70 for static via my router settings..
As soon as i stop it being STATIC, it boots just fine.. and automatically assigns itself to 192.168.1.111 and has no problem...

 

[gamerdude1989]

OKay.. finally got it all completely sorted

Anyone know how long it takes for Freenas to auto rebuild array?
i have it set to RAID 1, so that ive got file safety incase of drive failure..
So, just as a test, still with the poo hard drives, i copied a file to the NAS, and then removed one hard drive, just to see if it would still let me access the file.
(as it should have the data on both hard drives of course)..
and sure enough, it works fine.. But when i put the second hard drive back in, it comes up with "rebuild automatically started"... and the caddy activity lights are blinking in sync with eachother.. but its taking FOREVER!
i only put one short video file on there!

She's now ready for the nice box of brand new 6x 1tb drives to be put in and setup

 

[gamerdude1989]

FreeNAS is not aware of your RAID 1 logical disk. You are putting RAID on top of RAID. As I said, you are doing it wrong.

Try creating two single disk RAID arrays in the PERC controller and see if FreeNAS will see them as two disks. Then create a ZFS mirror in FreeNAS across these two disks. If you have more than two disks, then use RAIDZ1 (or 2 if you have four disks).

freenas is aware of my hardware RAID 1 array though mate. because when i pull one drive out, im still able to access the data, due to it being mirror'd onto both drives, like RAID 1 should.. and then when i insert the drive back in, it automatically comes up with "rebuild automatically started".. does its job, then says "array rebuild finished"...