Thanks, I'll have to keep this in mind.
Rainer
On 9/28/2012 4:08 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote:
Something worth noting, if you intend to purchase a card to expand via SATA
drives, is that SATA controllers and OI smartctl don't get along yet (the
interface for ATA commands isn't implemented, I think is the story), if you
get a SAS/SAS2 controller, you can get smartctl to work with "-d sat" on
SATA disks (SAS2 is far more likely to support 3TB and larger disks). I
see LSI-based ones recommended for OI quite a bit on this list, but you
want the HBA ones, not the RAID ones. They are more expensive than your
average SATA card, though, and use a different cable.
I haven't the faintest idea what SATA cards work with OI/illumos.
Tim
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Rainer Heilke <rhei...@dragonhearth.com>wrote:
Bingo! I unplugged one of my internal data drives (after removing it from
the ZFS mirror) and hooked up the 3TB drive.
Went into the BIOS: 3TB
Went into format: 3TB
Did a zpool create, there is a new 2.72TB pool.
Yippee! Thank you!
Now I get to spend the next month moving drives and data around. :-( Too
bad OI can't use my new (and seemingly useless) Vantec SATA card. :-(
Rainer
On 9/28/2012 12:32 PM, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
Hi Rainer!
This is a USB-attached drive
(in a SATA/USB enclosure)
Are you sure the controller chip in your SATA/USB enclosure can
deal with more than 2TB of disk?
All such enclosures I have either truncate at 2TB or worse, they wrap
around. A disk with 3000GB (decimal) will give you just short of
2794GB (binary), and wrapped around 2TB will give you 746GB.
So I am quite sure the controller chip in your enclosure is to blame.
Regards -- Volker
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