As does fdisk -G:
root@nas:~# fdisk -G /dev/rdsk/c16t5000C5002AA08E4Dd0
* Physical geometry for device /dev/rdsk/c16t5000C5002AA08E4Dd0
* PCYL     NCYL     ACYL     BCYL     NHEAD NSECT SECSIZ
  60800    60800    0        0        255   252   512
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root@nas:~# fdisk -G /dev/rdsk/c16t5000C5005295F727d0
* Physical geometry for device /dev/rdsk/c16t5000C5005295F727d0
* PCYL     NCYL     ACYL     BCYL     NHEAD NSECT SECSIZ
  60800    60800    0        0        255   252   512



On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:01 AM, LIC mesh <licm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yet another weird thing - prtvtoc shows both drives as having the same
> sector size,  etc:
> root@nas:~# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c16t5000C5002AA08E4Dd0
> * /dev/rdsk/c16t5000C5002AA08E4Dd0 partition map
> *
> * Dimensions:
> *     512 bytes/sector
> * 3907029168 sectors
> * 3907029101 accessible sectors
> *
> * Flags:
> *   1: unmountable
> *  10: read-only
> *
> * Unallocated space:
> *       First     Sector    Last
> *       Sector     Count    Sector
> *          34       222       255
> *
> *                          First     Sector    Last
> * Partition  Tag  Flags    Sector     Count    Sector  Mount Directory
>        0      4    00        256 3907012495 3907012750
>        8     11    00  3907012751     16384 3907029134
> root@nas:~# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c16t5000C5005295F727d0
> * /dev/rdsk/c16t5000C5005295F727d0 partition map
> *
> * Dimensions:
> *     512 bytes/sector
> * 3907029168 sectors
> * 3907029101 accessible sectors
> *
> * Flags:
> *   1: unmountable
> *  10: read-only
> *
> * Unallocated space:
> *       First     Sector    Last
> *       Sector     Count    Sector
> *          34       222       255
> *
> *                          First     Sector    Last
> * Partition  Tag  Flags    Sector     Count    Sector  Mount Directory
>        0      4    00        256 3907012495 3907012750
>        8     11    00  3907012751     16384 3907029134
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Timothy Coalson <tsc...@mst.edu> wrote:
>
>> I think you can fool a recent Illumos kernel into thinking a 4k disk is
>> 512 (incurring a performance hit for that disk, and therefore the vdev and
>> pool, but to save a raidz1, it might be worth it):
>>
>> http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks ,
>> see "Overriding the Physical Sector Size"
>>
>> I don't know what you might have to do to coax it to do the replace with
>> a hot spare (zpool replace? export/import?).  Perhaps there should be a
>> feature in ZFS that notifies when a pool is created or imported with a hot
>> spare that can't be automatically used in one or more vdevs?  The whole
>> point of hot spares is to have them automatically swap in when you aren't
>> there to fiddle with things, which is a bad time to find out it won't work.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:52 PM, LIC mesh <licm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Well this is a new one....
>>>
>>> Illumos/Openindiana let me add a device as a hot spare that evidently
>>> has a different sector alignment than all of the other drives in the array.
>>>
>>> So now I'm at the point that I /need/ a hot spare and it doesn't look
>>> like I have it.
>>>
>>> And, worse, the other spares I have are all the same model as said hot
>>> spare.
>>>
>>> Is there anything I can do with this or am I just going to be up the
>>> creek when any one of the other drives in the raidz1 fails?
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>
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