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 🙏

  • @steel_mooseOP
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    19 hours ago

    The issue is now resolved.

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

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