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TrueNAS boot drive dead? - resolved (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) by steel_moose to c/selfhosted

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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 🙏

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[–] steel_moose 1 points 1 hour ago

The issue is now resolved.

Replaced boot ssd for a new one.
Installed Truenas on said ssd.
Imported config/db.
Unlocked encrypted datasets on data drives.

Really straightforward with Truenas. Thanks to those who took the time to reply 👍

[–] mumblerfish 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure what Disk Manager is, but if it says

USB Mass Storage device detected

It appears to be something. If you do a sudo journalctl -f before you plug it in, does it tell you what device name it is given? If it is sata-to-usb you are using it is probably /dev/sd[a-z] or so, does anyone show up when you plug it in?

[–] steel_moose 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Output of journalctl is almost same as dmesg:

dec 04 05:22:58 mx kernel: usb 2-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 17 using xhci_hcd
dec 04 05:22:58 mx kernel: usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2109, idProduct=0711, bcdDevice= 1.44
dec 04 05:22:58 mx kernel: usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
dec 04 05:22:58 mx kernel: usb 2-1: Product: VLI Product String
dec 04 05:22:58 mx kernel: usb 2-1: Manufacturer: VLI manufacture String
dec 04 05:22:58 mx kernel: usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 000000123AFF
dec 04 05:22:58 mx kernel: usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
dec 04 05:22:58 mx kernel: usb-storage 2-1:1.0: Quirks match for vid 2109 pid 0711: 2000000
dec 04 05:22:58 mx kernel: scsi host3: usb-storage 2-1:1.0
dec 04 05:22:58 mx mtp-probe[31054]: checking bus 2, device 17: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-1"
dec 04 05:22:58 mx mtp-probe[31054]: bus: 2, device: 17 was not an MTP device
dec 04 05:22:59 mx mtp-probe[31084]: checking bus 2, device 17: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-1"
dec 04 05:22:59 mx mtp-probe[31084]: bus: 2, device: 17 was not an MTP device
dec 04 05:23:20 mx kernel: usb 2-1: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 17 using xhci_hcd

This cable has connected fine to previous ssd's.
Maybe the drive just had a typical ssd reactive failure 🤔
(Disk Manager is just a gui mount tool shipped with mx.)

[–] steel_moose 1 points 1 hour ago

For future reference...

The output of dmesg, with working drive and usb-sata cable:

[21697.558147] usb 2-2: new SuperSpeed USB device number 18 using xhci_hcd
[21697.587491] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=2109, idProduct=0711, bcdDevice= 1.44
[21697.587509] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[21697.587518] usb 2-2: Product: VLI Product String
[21697.587525] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: VLI manufacture String
[21697.587531] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 000000123AFF
[21697.590092] usb-storage 2-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[21697.590736] usb-storage 2-2:1.0: Quirks match for vid 2109 pid 0711: 2000000
[21697.590984] scsi host3: usb-storage 2-2:1.0
[21699.441247] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     USB3.0   high speed       2210 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[21699.441988] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[21699.442809] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 468862124 512-byte logical blocks: (240 GB/224 GiB)
[21699.443369] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[21699.443382] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 2f 00 00 00
[21699.443975] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[21699.447303]  sdc: sdc1 sdc2 < sdc5 >
[21699.447882] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
[21704.928734] EXT4-fs (sdc1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none.

[–] just_another_person 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure seems dead if you can't get it to detect via two different routes.

[–] BluescreenOfDeath 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] steel_moose 1 points 12 hours ago

Well, I did mention it was a SSD in the post.

As for backups...
The disks containing the important stuff are higher spec SSD's.
The data is backed up on 3 different drives - one offsite. So not really worried about dataloss at this point. And I have a fairly recent backup of the Truenas config/db.
The choice to not backup the boot drive, was made to save some money.
Just trying to figure out if a reinstall of Truenas on a new drive is the only option left. 🤷‍♂️