Proper drive size not recognized

[bechard]

I recently installed FreeNAS 8.0. I have a single 500 GB HD installed for storage and I'm booting up FreeNAS to a separate HD. When I add the volume it properly reads the drive size as about 460 GB. When I check the volume is starts by saying that it cannot read the size of the volume. Eventually it will report it as only 702.5 KB. I have rebooted multiple times, removed & re-added the volume multiple times, and also tried UFS and ZFS. Nothing is working. Someone in the IRC chat said they have seen this but cannot remember the solution.

[william]

The volume creation is probably failing on backend, the reason might be because the disk is already part of a geom or something...
In BETA3 this should be fixed by avoiding the volume being created...

To confirm, please attach your /var/log/messages right after creating the volume.

[bechard]

Here is the log just after re-creating the volume which I called TEST this time. I've also tried swapping the drive. Same error.

Jun 17 16:14:33 freenas freenas[1471]: Executing: geom disk list ada1 | grep 'Stripesize: 4096'
Jun 17 16:14:33 freenas freenas[1471]: Executing: geom disk list ada1 | grep 'Sectorsize: 512'
Jun 17 16:14:33 freenas freenas[1471]: Executing: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada1 bs=1m count=1
Jun 17 19:14:33 freenas freenas: 1+0 records in
Jun 17 19:14:33 freenas freenas: 1+0 records out
Jun 17 19:14:33 freenas freenas: 1048576 bytes transferred in 0.018284 secs (57349118 bytes/sec)
Jun 17 16:14:33 freenas freenas[1471]: Executing: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada1 bs=1m oseek=diskinfo ada1 | awk '{print int($3 / (1024*1024)) - 4;}'
Jun 17 19:14:33 freenas freenas: dd: /dev/ada1: short write on character device
Jun 17 19:14:33 freenas freenas: dd: /dev/ada1: end of device
Jun 17 19:14:33 freenas freenas: 5+0 records in
Jun 17 19:14:33 freenas freenas: 4+1 records out
Jun 17 19:14:33 freenas freenas: 4218880 bytes transferred in 0.089546 secs (47114127 bytes/sec)
Jun 17 16:14:33 freenas freenas[1471]: Executing: gpart create -s gpt /dev/ada1 && gpart add -t freebsd-swap -l swap-ada1 -s 4194304 ada1 && gpart add -t freebsd-ufs ada1
Jun 17 19:14:33 freenas freenas: ada1 created
Jun 17 19:14:33 freenas freenas: gpart: Input/output error
Jun 17 16:14:33 freenas freenas[1471]: Executing: newfs -U -L TEST /dev/ada1p2
Jun 17 19:14:33 freenas freenas: newfs: /dev/ada1p2: could not find special device
Jun 17 16:14:33 freenas freenas[1471]: Executing: /usr/sbin/service ix-fstab quietstart
Jun 17 16:14:34 freenas freenas[1471]: Executing: /usr/sbin/service swap1 quietstart
Jun 17 16:14:34 freenas freenas[1471]: Executing: /usr/sbin/service mountlate quietstart

[delphij]

Please try a newer snapshot, I think this have been fixed already.

(gpart: Input/output error looks suspicious, though., it might indicate some other problem)

[william]

Several changes have been made to the middleware, please try 8.0.2-RELEASE, if the problem persists reopen this ticket.

Thank you.