Hi all!
I’m stuck with a problem on my TrueNAS server. I suspect the boot drive is dead, but I don’t know how to proceed to get it back up and running.
My setup:
-HP Compaq 8000 Elite SFF with 8gig ddr3
-TrueNAS-24.04.2.5
-Boot drive: Kingston SSD A400 240GB
-Data drives: 2 X Kingston SSD DC600M 960GB
Today i noticed that my Truenas was offline and I couldn’t ssh into it. The nic lights were not showing any activity. After a few boot attempts I hooked it to a monitor and keyboard. No boot media detected. Then checked in the bios and the data drives are detected but not the 240GB boot drive. So I pull the boot drive out and hook it to my Thinkpad running mxLinux. I have a USB to SATA cable, that I’ve used before to troubleshoot drives. The drive is not showing up in Disk Manager. Output of dmesg -w when hooking up the drive is following:
[ 2369.520731] usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[ 2369.547175] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2109, idProduct=0711, bcdDevice= 1.44
[ 2369.547194] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2369.547202] usb 2-1: Product: VLI Product String
[ 2369.547208] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: VLI manufacture String
[ 2369.547213] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 000000123AFF
[ 2369.549433] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 2369.549917] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: Quirks match for vid 2109 pid 0711: 2000000
[ 2369.550061] scsi host3: usb-storage 2-1:1.0
Been trying to resolve this for hours with google but to no avail. Any help appreciated where to go from here.
Thanks 🙏
Sure seems dead if you can’t get it to detect via two different routes.
This is what I think is most likely as well. The capacity on the drive makes me think it’s a SSD and they can just spontaneously fail.
This is why you always need backups. It’s never a question of if, but rather when a drive will fail.