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Can you mount a TRAID drive in TOS?

Posted: 15 Sep 2024, 16:30
by dennison
I have an F2-212 setup as follows:

HDD1: 500GB TRAID btrfs - OS disk
HDD2: 2TB TRAID btrfs - media disk

Recently, the 500GB drive where TOS is installed crased. I tired to re-install TOS on it, however, after several boot failures, I decided to get a new 2TB disk to replace it.

After doing a fresh TOS install on the new HDD1 and confirming that it boots and that I am able to login, I shut the system off and inserted HDD2. However, the system would not boot with this configuration. Instead, I get 3 beeps and the OS does not get initialized.

So, I booted into HDD1 and did a hot mount on HDD2. In doing so, the system recognized the drive, but it is not mounted. I can sdb is listed when is do lsblk via terminal, along with the 1.8TB volume sdb4 which is probably where my old media is stored.

How do I mount HDD2 in TOS?

Re: Can you mount a TRAID drive in TOS?

Posted: 15 Sep 2024, 17:54
by EthanLiu
dennison wrote: 15 Sep 2024, 16:30 I have an F2-212 setup as follows:

HDD1: 500GB TRAID btrfs - OS disk
HDD2: 2TB TRAID btrfs - media disk

Recently, the 500GB drive where TOS is installed crased. I tired to re-install TOS on it, however, after several boot failures, I decided to get a new 2TB disk to replace it.

After doing a fresh TOS install on the new HDD1 and confirming that it boots and that I am able to login, I shut the system off and inserted HDD2. However, the system would not boot with this configuration. Instead, I get 3 beeps and the OS does not get initialized.

So, I booted into HDD1 and did a hot mount on HDD2. In doing so, the system recognized the drive, but it is not mounted. I can sdb is listed when is do lsblk via terminal, along with the 1.8TB volume sdb4 which is probably where my old media is stored.

How do I mount HDD2 in TOS?
Based on your description, I recommend restarting your device and then checking if HDD2 has been successfully mounted.

If the problem persists after the restart, you can try using these two hard drives to reinstall the operating system.

If the issue is still not resolved, please contact our customer service personnel through the official website, and we will arrange for an engineer to remotely assist you.

Re: Can you mount a TRAID drive in TOS?

Posted: 16 Sep 2024, 01:43
by Gremlin
How many storage pools and volumes did you create? It does not seem logical that you would have OS and media on separate disks under tos5 (Version?). Tos operating system is typically installed across all drives as a raid mirror. So, if one drive crashed you would have to rebuild the array. Re-installation on a single drive may well corrupt the os mirror array.

Re: Can you mount a TRAID drive in TOS?

Posted: 16 Sep 2024, 19:39
by dennison
TMpraj wrote: 15 Sep 2024, 17:54 Based on your description, I recommend restarting your device and then checking if HDD2 has been successfully mounted.

If the problem persists after the restart, you can try using these two hard drives to reinstall the operating system.

If the issue is still not resolved, please contact our customer service personnel through the official website, and we will arrange for an engineer to remotely assist you.
Tried restarting several times, I just get 3 beeps.

What difference would it make if I re-install the OS with both drives inserted?

Re: Can you mount a TRAID drive in TOS?

Posted: 16 Sep 2024, 19:40
by dennison
Gremlin wrote: 16 Sep 2024, 01:43 How many storage pools and volumes did you create? It does not seem logical that you would have OS and media on separate disks under tos5 (Version?). Tos operating system is typically installed across all drives as a raid mirror. So, if one drive crashed you would have to rebuild the array. Re-installation on a single drive may well corrupt the os mirror array.
I just replicated my previous setup with OS in HDD1 and media in HDD2.

Re: Can you mount a TRAID drive in TOS?

Posted: 16 Sep 2024, 20:48
by Gremlin
Sorry, but I am confused by your initial post (and subsequent)
dennison wrote: 15 Sep 2024, 16:30 After doing a fresh TOS install on the new HDD1 and confirming that it boots and that I am able to login,
Did you also buy a new 500Gb drive for HDD1?

Which version of TOS did you make the fresh install with?

How did you 'replicate' that previous setup?

Re: Can you mount a TRAID drive in TOS?

Posted: 30 Sep 2024, 16:15
by dennison
Okay, so I raised this with slupport ended up reinstalling TOS on both HDD to be able to accesss the files.

I followed Method B (hot mount from no HDD on boot) outlined on this post: viewtopic.php?t=423