Comments on: FreeNAS Tutorial for Windows Users – Part 6 – Adding a Drive http://www.lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/ "A true friend stabs you in the front" - Oscar Wilde Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:20:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Manoli http://www.lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-43764 Manoli Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:25:18 +0000 http://lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/#comment-43764 Hi, I am probably going to sound a bit stupid, but I am stuck. So please forgive me. I have setup the NAS weeks ago with two 500gb Sata drive. They are set to mirrored. What I thought was going to be easy, has turned into something that i don't even know if it can be done. Essentially this motherboard I am using only supports two sata ports, so instead of having to find another machine I though I would attempt to connect in a IDE drive. From here I get lost. I had some minor trouble with the BIOS settings after I connected the new IDE drive, but managed to get pass this ok. BIOS recognises both the 2 Sata drive and the new IDE i just installed. However when going into the FREENAS admin screen this IDE drive is no where to be found. I can't seem to add it as it just doesn't show up. If anyone can please provide me with the process to add this IDE drive to the storage "pool" this would be really appreciated. Once again I apologise if this questions has been discussed already, but I couldn't seem to find anyone experiencing the same issue specifically. Also whats is making life a bit hard is that I seem to have a difference version of FREENAS to what is used in most tutorials. Mine looks nothing like what is used in these screen shots and I do not have a Disk Management area. Rather it refers to "volumes" Thank you Manoli Hi,

I am probably going to sound a bit stupid, but I am stuck. So please forgive me.

I have setup the NAS weeks ago with two 500gb Sata drive. They are set to mirrored.

What I thought was going to be easy, has turned into something that i don’t even know if it can be done. Essentially this motherboard I am using only supports two sata ports, so instead of having to find another machine I though I would attempt to connect in a IDE drive.

From here I get lost. I had some minor trouble with the BIOS settings after I connected the new IDE drive, but managed to get pass this ok. BIOS recognises both the 2 Sata drive and the new IDE i just installed. However when going into the FREENAS admin screen this IDE drive is no where to be found. I can’t seem to add it as it just doesn’t show up.

If anyone can please provide me with the process to add this IDE drive to the storage “pool” this would be really appreciated. Once again I apologise if this questions has been discussed already, but I couldn’t seem to find anyone experiencing the same issue specifically.

Also whats is making life a bit hard is that I seem to have a difference version of FREENAS to what is used in most tutorials. Mine looks nothing like what is used in these screen shots and I do not have a Disk Management area. Rather it refers to “volumes”

Thank you
Manoli

]]> By: Sandy http://www.lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-42715 Sandy Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:47:12 +0000 http://lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/#comment-42715 Great content, thank you for posting it. Comment about your web page arrangement. The main content is getting cut and we need to scroll to read, that itself is painful but adding insult to injury, the scroll bar is way down and so to read every line we have to scroll down and come back up again. Appreciate if you could fix it. Great content, thank you for posting it.
Comment about your web page arrangement.
The main content is getting cut and we need to scroll to read, that itself is painful but adding insult to injury, the scroll bar is way down and so to read every line we have to scroll down and come back up again.
Appreciate if you could fix it.

]]> By: Sachin yedre http://www.lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-42692 Sachin yedre Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:24:20 +0000 http://lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/#comment-42692 can we give users of different groups different access rights? we are not having domain environment. can we give users of different groups different access rights?

we are not having domain environment.

]]> By: Rob http://www.lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-42631 Rob Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:43:28 +0000 http://lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/#comment-42631 Alex - I am glad my posts helped! Alex – I am glad my posts helped!

]]> By: Alex http://www.lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-42525 Alex Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:32:50 +0000 http://lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/#comment-42525 Excellent , Excellent I just finished converting a SR2100 and needed a storage server for my Lan. After reading this information posted I have it. FreeNas looks like Perfect fit for my k3 Domain. Excellent , Excellent I just finished converting a SR2100 and needed a storage server for my Lan. After reading this information posted I have it. FreeNas looks like Perfect fit for my k3 Domain.

]]> By: Ashley Slade http://www.lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-42482 Ashley Slade Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:15:14 +0000 http://lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/#comment-42482 dsr, FreeNAS must use UFS as it is the native file system of FreeBSD. It will read FAT and NTFS but it is not recommended to use that for a file system dsr, FreeNAS must use UFS as it is the native file system of FreeBSD.
It will read FAT and NTFS but it is not recommended to use that for a file system

]]> By: marvin http://www.lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-42223 marvin Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:50:43 +0000 http://lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/#comment-42223 i think i might have found it! at first, i didn't notice a drive called ar0 in my list of drives. i was trying to add the member disks individually then i figured the size of ar0 is the size of my array. and i just thought that the 'r' in ar0 must mean raid. thanks. i think i might have found it! at first, i didn’t notice a drive called ar0 in my list of drives. i was trying to add the member disks individually then i figured the size of ar0 is the size of my array. and i just thought that the ‘r’ in ar0 must mean raid. thanks.

]]> By: marvin http://www.lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-42215 marvin Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:50:19 +0000 http://lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/#comment-42215 hello! very nice tutorial! simple but imformative especially for windows users like me. one question i have is, how do i add an existing raid10 to freenas? my controller is the one that came with my mobo and it's intel (p965/ich8r). i'm really not familiar with controllers. i have it setup for raid 10 and was using server 2003 with it. my os hard drive just died and i would like to use freenas for the mean time. i have used it before and i'm kind of faniliar with the process, but that was starting from scratch, meaning, i started with empty disks and then setup my raid. how do i add my raid array without reformatting or starting from scratch? thank you. hello! very nice tutorial! simple but imformative especially for windows users like me.

one question i have is, how do i add an existing raid10 to freenas? my controller is the one that came with my mobo and it’s intel (p965/ich8r). i’m really not familiar with controllers. i have it setup for raid 10 and was using server 2003 with it. my os hard drive just died and i would like to use freenas for the mean time. i have used it before and i’m kind of faniliar with the process, but that was starting from scratch, meaning, i started with empty disks and then setup my raid. how do i add my raid array without reformatting or starting from scratch? thank you.

]]> By: rob http://www.lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-41813 rob Fri, 29 May 2009 20:23:00 +0000 http://lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/#comment-41813 @Mike - glad you liked my posts. Afraid I can't help with the RAID stuff - my life is pretty darned demanding right now. But this community has been great - perhaps one of them can step in and help you (and everyone else) out. Thanks for stopping by. Rob @Mike – glad you liked my posts. Afraid I can’t help with the RAID stuff – my life is pretty darned demanding right now. But this community has been great – perhaps one of them can step in and help you (and everyone else) out.

Thanks for stopping by.

Rob

]]> By: Mike http://www.lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-41812 Mike Fri, 29 May 2009 18:57:22 +0000 http://lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/#comment-41812 Rob, Great write ups! I followed through your other series and found these really help. The hardest thing was to get my permissions correct, even though my LAN is secure as well and the users are trusted, I have to manually add the hostname and IP address to allow on each share, kind of a bummer. This is WITH Anonymous permissions enabled. Anyway, I would LOVE to see if you can write up a post on how to do RAID 5 setups. I have my NAS installed full on one HD that is 39 GB (currently testing now) but now I cannot use that HD as apart of the RAID 5 configuration because I cannot format it, seems like a major withdrawl having to sacrifice a full HD just because 256MB is reserved for the OS?? Any help would be great, thanks! Rob,
Great write ups! I followed through your other series and found these really help. The hardest thing was to get my permissions correct, even though my LAN is secure as well and the users are trusted, I have to manually add the hostname and IP address to allow on each share, kind of a bummer. This is WITH Anonymous permissions enabled.

Anyway, I would LOVE to see if you can write up a post on how to do RAID 5 setups. I have my NAS installed full on one HD that is 39 GB (currently testing now) but now I cannot use that HD as apart of the RAID 5 configuration because I cannot format it, seems like a major withdrawl having to sacrifice a full HD just because 256MB is reserved for the OS??

Any help would be great, thanks!

]]> By: dsr http://www.lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-41713 dsr Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:43:12 +0000 http://lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/#comment-41713 thanks..while i have you... i can successfully see the drives thru windows explorer on my home lan . i played with setting up users, but it's not clear to me that any of the folder or file protection setups can be done within freenas. in other words - right now, all i have are 3 hd's in a NAS which i can access. if i want to setup protection schemes ala USER_A can only read/write FOLDER_A, must that be done in a shell, or is there something i missed within freenas? I'm simply looking to setup shares on the NAS which are essentially password protected (or more explicitly - only available to a username/password which is identical on both the NAS and the Windows user trying to access it). thanks thanks..while i have you…

i can successfully see the drives thru windows explorer on my home lan . i played with setting up users, but it’s not clear to me that any of the folder or file protection setups can be done within freenas.

in other words – right now, all i have are 3 hd’s in a NAS which i can access. if i want to setup protection schemes ala USER_A can only read/write FOLDER_A, must that be done in a shell, or is there something i missed within freenas? I’m simply looking to setup shares on the NAS which are essentially password protected (or more explicitly – only available to a username/password which is identical on both the NAS and the Windows user trying to access it).

thanks

]]> By: rob http://www.lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-41710 rob Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:30:45 +0000 http://lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/#comment-41710 @dsr - I picked UFS since it was the default (and because I also had a Mac, which I didn't mention to keep things simple). Sure - Windows only should turn on NTFS. If you didn't format the drives, they should still be NTFS. Nothing gets magically formatted. Rob @dsr – I picked UFS since it was the default (and because I also had a Mac, which I didn’t mention to keep things simple). Sure – Windows only should turn on NTFS.

If you didn’t format the drives, they should still be NTFS. Nothing gets magically formatted.

Rob

]]> By: dsr http://www.lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-41709 dsr Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:34:54 +0000 http://lagesse.org/freenas-tutorial-for-windows-users-part-6-adding-a-drive/#comment-41709 Rob, Thanks for the tutorial. I want to use Freenas purely as a NAS to backup a set of Windows machines on my LAN. I'll probably use Syncback to handle all the backup chores. Is there a reason/advantage to leave the formatting as UFS? Wouldn't it make more sense to format all the drives as NTFS? Now having said that, the drives i am using were previously formatted as NTFS and when i set them up under FREENAS, i didn't see any formatting being done on them. Are they still NTFS? thanks Rob, Thanks for the tutorial. I want to use Freenas purely as a NAS to backup a set of Windows machines on my LAN. I’ll probably use Syncback to handle all the backup chores. Is there a reason/advantage to leave the formatting as UFS? Wouldn’t it make more sense to format all the drives as NTFS?

Now having said that, the drives i am using were previously formatted as NTFS and when i set them up under FREENAS, i didn’t see any formatting being done on them. Are they still NTFS? thanks

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