Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-20 Thread Marion Hakanson
dk...@elmira.edu said: I have had usb ports hang till reboot as well. If I plug a drive into one and try to unmount it I can't and when I try to attach something else to that port it is no longer recognized. I just work through all of the usb ports on my ultra20 and then reboot when I run

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-20 Thread Daniel Kjar
Thanks, I will give it a shot next time. On 01/20/12 01:36 PM, Marion Hakanson wrote: dk...@elmira.edu said: I have had usb ports hang till reboot as well. If I plug a drive into one and try to unmount it I can't and when I try to attach something else to that port it is no longer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-19 Thread Daniel Kjar
is this a zfs formatted drive? On 01/18/12 06:00 PM, Francois Dion wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Ron Parkerrdpar...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a USB drive that behaves properly with OpenIndiana. Using a toshiba canvio 1tb. It is a 2.5 usb3 external drive that works fine on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-19 Thread Daniel Kjar
interesting. I am not sure what the box is (either usb2 or 3) but the system is attached to a usb1 only machine. I think the ultra20 is usb1 as well. On my machines the disk shuts off automatically if the system goes down so I assume the fact that the box shuts off in a minute or two after

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Ron Parker
I am looking for a USB drive that behaves properly with OpenIndiana. Currently I have a 2TB Seagate GoFlex Desk USB 3.0 drive. But it seems to exhibit a problem with spontaneously detaching and reattaching to the host similar to what i saw with some Seagate drives on Linux a couple years ago. This

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 01/18/2012 12:25 PM, Ron Parker wrote: I am looking for a USB drive that behaves properly with OpenIndiana. Currently I have a 2TB Seagate GoFlex Desk USB 3.0 drive. But it seems to exhibit a problem with spontaneously detaching and reattaching to the host similar to what i saw with some

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Ron Parker
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ray Arachelian r...@arachelian.com wrote: On 01/18/2012 12:25 PM, Ron Parker wrote: I am looking for a USB drive that behaves properly with OpenIndiana. Currently I have a 2TB Seagate GoFlex Desk USB 3.0 drive. Funny you should ask, I'm seeing the same kinds

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Daniel Kjar
Same problem here. Pain in the rear. On 01/18/12 12:43 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote: On 01/18/2012 12:25 PM, Ron Parker wrote: I am looking for a USB drive that behaves properly with OpenIndiana. Currently I have a 2TB Seagate GoFlex Desk USB 3.0 drive. But it seems to exhibit a problem with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Jonathan Adams
I know it's Solaris 10, not OI, but we recently took all our arrays of USB external disks and inserted then as SATA disks inside DELL servers because we were getting fed up of USB errors ... my boss is able to sleep again now. we no longer trust USB as a permanent solution (although it works well

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Reginald Beardsley
FWIW I've been using a 320 GB Maxtor USB disk to sneaker net data from OI to Solaris 10 for 5-6 months w/o any problems. It works fine connected for long periods to either system. If the drive goes to sleep it takes a moment to get a response, but no actual problems. I did run into

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Daniel Kjar
I have a 4 disk external box with both sata2 and usb. When attached by usb the whole thing dropped after a little while, sata2 works perfectly fine (except my sata card will only see one disk ). So I know it is not the drive but the USB that causes the drop. this is with a 2 tb seagate On

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Reginald Beardsley
multiplexer problem :-( --- On Wed, 1/18/12, Daniel Kjar dk...@elmira.edu wrote: From: Daniel Kjar dk...@elmira.edu Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 1:38 PM I have a 4 disk external box

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 01/18/2012 12:51 PM, Ron Parker wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ray Arachelian r...@arachelian.com wrote: Funny you should ask, I'm seeing the same kinds of behavior after upgrading to 151 with an 8 slot USB 3 array. Are we sure it's the hardware and not something in the USB

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 01/18/12 09:43, Ray Arachelian wrote: Funny you should ask, I'm seeing the same kinds of behavior after upgrading to 151 with an 8 slot USB 3 array. Are we sure it's the hardware and not something in the USB driver? You're not the only one. I've been seeing sporadic hangs of I/O to a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Ron Parker
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Bill Sommerfeld sommerf...@alum.mit.edu wrote: I haven't had a chance to dig into it further -- it's only happened two or three times in about two months, and when it happens it also clobbers keyboard mouse. And now that you mention it, there are times on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Daniel Kjar
I have had usb ports hang till reboot as well. If I plug a drive into one and try to unmount it I can't and when I try to attach something else to that port it is no longer recognized. I just work through all of the usb ports on my ultra20 and then reboot when I run out. On 01/18/12 03:32

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Francois Dion
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Ron Parker rdpar...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a USB drive that behaves properly with OpenIndiana. Using a toshiba canvio 1tb. It is a 2.5 usb3 external drive that works fine on regular usb 2. Been using it for months. I've transferred a few time 900GB

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Jason Matthews
From: Francois Dion [mailto:francois.d...@gmail.com] I currently use it to randomly shuffle music and backup the laptop. I've never had it burp or error. This is on a Sony vaio Z series laptop running OI 151a. Same cannot be said from random 3.5 sata drives in no names powered usb