On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Reginald Beardsley <pulask...@yahoo.com> wrote: > From my notes configuring a 3 TB Hitachi in June 2011 on Sol 10 u8. > > "After considerable fubar, the key to formatting the 3 TB disk was to use, > 'format -e', supply LBA pseudo geometry & create an EFI label. NB Must run > fdisk from inside format." > > All I remember is I did it once. Now I wish I'd been more verbose in my > notes. > > The Hitachi is pulled for RMA. As I recall the BIOS reported it as 887 GB. > ZFS saw the entire drive, though it's really only 2.79 TB. But it worked > just fine until it starting failing.
I was looking into 3TB (or 4TB) drives myself. Solaris documentation (including current Solaris 11) says that you can't boot off a drive > 2TB because you can't use an EFI label. Did "format -e" work around this limitation? Or were you merely able to make a non-bootable zfs pool? Jan _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss