openFiler:

http://www.openfiler.com/

OpenFiler Info Intentions:

To provide caveats I and others may have run into. I also may write up a FreeNAS comparison at a later date.

1.) I could not access the Volumes tab in openFiler to save my life after first installing. I logged in as root via command line to dig a bit further. I don't have a floppy in my openfiler system and I started seeing "buffer I/O error on device fd0" whenever I'd try to access the Volumes tab. I searched online and found the same people were having issues. Even though this info is already on google, I'm adding it here as well.

1A.) PS. The blacklist answer below didn't work. I also found on an openfiler forum that it had to be disabled in BIOS. I disabled the FloppyController in my Advanced Setup and also had to set the Floppy to disabled on the main System Screen. After that and rebooting, I could access the Volumes tab in the Web interface. It's possible a BIOS disable is the only thing that needed changed and the extra who ha of creating a blacklist file is irrelevant. I may test at a later date.

Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 error and simple soultion

After installing openfiler, I kept getting this error. Inside /var/log/messages and sometimes in console.
I though it was because the hard disk may be corrupt.

Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0

What do they mean? How do I fix this problem?

A. This message appears when you don’t have a floppy drive attached to a Linux server. The solution is quite simple, just disable driver for floppy and reboot the system. You can verify this with the following command (this solution works with RHEL, CentOS, Redhat, Ubuntu/Debian and other Linux distros) :
# lsmod | grep -i floppy
Output:

floppy                 95465  0

In my case, there is no /etc/modprobe.d, so i created the folder
# mkdir -p /etc/modprobe.d

Then, I create this file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist :
# vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Listing a module (driver name) in this file prevents the hotplug scripts from loading it. Usually that’d be so that some other driver will bind it instead,
no matter which driver happens to get probed first. Sometimes user mode tools can also control driver binding. Append following line:

blacklist floppy

# more/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
blacklist floppy

Save and close the file. Now reboot the Linux server:
# reboot

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2.) I can't mount my old UFS disks to grab data from them.

mount -t ufs /dev/hda1 /mnt/test -o ufstype=ufs2,ro

I get "bad_magic_number".

3.) Openfiler is not as friendly as FreeNAS. I also can't get it to sync properly to a time server and I have all my Gateway, DNS, and IP info correct. I think I'm going back to FreeNAS, this is taking too much time for a home backup system, lame.