Harry Putnam <[email protected]> writes: >>>As boot up proceeds it gets by the brief memory check that a screen >>>saying: >>> >>> Press F3 to enter configuration utility >>> Primary channel: WDC WD750-blah-bah <= my new 750gb drive >> >> >> Ah, I can't help you there; I don't have a configuration utility for the >> disks. Did you remove the boot drive? > > No I didn't remove boot drive but maybe I should explain a bit > further. The boot drive originally was an IDE 60gb drive I. I > installed an IDE 500gb and you walked me through > attach/resilver/detach/reboot. Reboot again and I have 500gb boot > drive (single now). > > > OK, so now I have pulled out the detached 60gb IDE drive, and am > adding a second IDE 500gb to mirror rpool. > > But at the same time decided to upgrade another zpool on a pair of > sata 200gb in mirror config. > > So at the same time as adding the 500gb IDE drive I also pulled one of > the 200gb satas from the 2nd zpool and replaced it with a 750gb sata > and rebooted. > > At that point I hit the snag this thread is about. > > So I think I'll disconnnect the sata drives entirely. Boot up and see > if the there is any problem booting and resilvering the new 500gb IDE. > > Then go back and try replacing one of the satas at a time. > > I'm going to do that now... and report back after.
Now, I've disconnected all sata drives (2) rebooted and added a mirror to my 500gb IDE boot Drive. Went back to the sata problem. I'm trying to enlarge a zpool on 2 sata 200gb drives with 2 sata 750s. The originals are on an adaptec 1205sa PCI sata controller. When I booted before all these changes.... I'd see a message after the memory check and after the IDE drives wire reported that said: Press F3 to enter configuration utility Primary channel: WDC WD200-blah-bah 190782 mb secondary: channel:WDC WD200-blah-blah 190782 mb (I ad-libed the drive names and sizes but that was the format) I'm pretty sure this message is coming from the adaptec 1205sa PCI card I found by ignoring it, in moment boot would continue and all was well. Now I find when I swap one of the 200gb satas for 750 sata, when I get to that message during boot it looks like: Press F3 to enter configuration utility Primary channel: WDC WD200-blah-bah 190782 mb secondary: channel:WDC WD750-blah-blah Notice the size is missing from newly added 750. And there the boot stops. Ignoring it does not allow boot to continue, pressing F3 does nothing at all. Hard to see how to proceed from here? It appears to be the adaptec 1205sa that is hanging things, and it seems to be because it cannot discern the size of the disk. I got that adaptec 1205sa because it appears on the HCL as something that has been tried and worked, on at least one set of hardware. I don't recall what hardware, but so far it has worked on my hardware, until now. I'm guessing it needs to know the size and cannot find it because the disk is brand new. The other 2 sata I had on that controller were from a windows machine. I just plugged them into the card on my osol server and it all appeared to work.. and his been happily collecting data in mirror config. Any one have an idea how I might proceed. Maybe format the darn things a widows machine and then try again? Or is there some other smarter way? I'm admittedly a bit slow and now all that experienced either. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
