Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-20 Thread Ian Collins
Hans J. Albertsson wrote: i think I've just got a problem because of machine age! if I can muster enough courage ok, well, being retired, what can harm me now? I have my sata controllers in that machine in ide mode... gaah.. snip Will I have to export/backup the entire thing to another

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-20 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
As you can see in later instalments of this thread, I did the following, which worked; reboot, catch on the way up to modify BIOS. (Not as easy as you might think: my KVM and my notebook wouldn't cooperate until I connected a different, USB, keyboard AND reconfigured the KVM end concerning

[OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
When I look around in all the various places where the 4k blocksize issue is discussed, it turns out all the advice only ever deals with SCSI or SAS drives. So many of the easy, straightforward recipies won't work for SATA drives. What should I do?? I have the WD EARS drives which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Hans, On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se wrote: When I look around in all the various places where the 4k blocksize issue is discussed, it turns out all the advice only ever deals with SCSI or SAS drives. After reading this page [1],

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Your counter-question baffles me a bit... but: Can you point at any part of that wiki page that actually deals with how to produce a 4kblocksize pool on a SATA, not a SCSI, drive that is actually 4k physical blocksize but reports having 512 bytes blocks. The trick of editing sd.conf

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Jan Owoc
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se wrote: When I look around in all the various places where the 4k blocksize issue is discussed, it turns out all the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
i think I've just got a problem because of machine age! if I can muster enough courage ok, well, being retired, what can harm me now? I have my sata controllers in that machine in ide mode... gaah.. There was a problem in Solaris 11/Opensolaris around builds 97 or so that meant I had

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Hans J Albertsson
I read somewhere that you can Set sata to ahci in bios. Boot a live dvd In there  i can just do a zpool import -f rpool. Could this be true? Really? Skickat från min Samsung Mobil Originalmeddelande Från: Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se Datum: Till:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 03/17/2013 04:06 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Your counter-question baffles me a bit... but: Can you point at any part of that wiki page that actually deals with how to produce a 4kblocksize pool on a SATA, not a SCSI, drive that is actually 4k physical blocksize but reports having 512

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Sun, 3/17/13, Hans J Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se wrote: From: Hans J Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!?? To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana