Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How can one test in situ, and under OI, the physical blocksize a SATA disk actually reports??

2013-03-20 Thread Reginald Beardsley
FWIW This is how and shows what an ST2000DM001 properly configured using sd.conf reports: oi%rhb {2} echo ::sd_state | mdb -k | egrep '^un|blocksize' un 0: ff0140ddfd00 un_sys_blocksize = 0x200 un_tgt_blocksize = 0x200 un_phy_blocksize = 0x1000 un_f_tgt_blocksize_is_valid

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How can one test in situ, and under OI, the physical blocksize a SATA disk actually reports??

2013-03-20 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Well, what I was looking for is what the physical drive without any prodding from sd.conf would respond... On 2013-03-20 14:21, Reginald Beardsley wrote: FWIW This is how and shows what an ST2000DM001 properly configured using sd.conf reports: oi%rhb {2} echo ::sd_state | mdb -k | egrep

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How can one test in situ, and under OI, the physical blocksize a SATA disk actually reports??

2013-03-20 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
But still, your suggestion helped me find a bunch of mistakes on the way... So THANK YOU , and never mind my cantankerous self... On 2013-03-20 14:47, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Well, what I was looking for is what the physical drive without any prodding from sd.conf would respond... On

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How can one test in situ, and under OI, the physical blocksize a SATA disk actually reports??

2013-03-20 Thread Rich
Modern versions of smartctl can also tell you: smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [i386-pc-solaris2.11] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST2000DL003-9VT166 Serial Number:5YD5LYEW LU WWN

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How can one test in situ, and under OI, the physical blocksize a SATA disk actually reports??

2013-03-20 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Hmm. I'm having problems. I think I've followed the advice in http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks format returns --- format inq Vendor: ATA Product: WDC WD20EARS-00M Revision: AB51 format --- the last few lines in my sd.conf look like --- # # The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How can one test in situ, and under OI, the physical blocksize a SATA disk actually reports??

2013-03-20 Thread Rich
I had luck with the following entry when I couldn't easily convince the matching to work, perhaps it's overkill for you. sd-config-list = **,physical-block-size:4096; - Rich On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se wrote: Hmm. I'm having problems.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How can one test in situ, and under OI, the physical blocksize a SATA disk actually reports??

2013-03-20 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Since I have my rpool on two 500G SATA disks with 512b sectors for real maybe that would be not over, but kill :-) On 2013-03-20 15:57, Rich wrote: I had luck with the following entry when I couldn't easily convince the matching to work, perhaps it's overkill for you. sd-config-list =

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How can one test in situ, and under OI, the physical blocksize a SATA disk actually reports??

2013-03-20 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Wed, 3/20/13, Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se wrote: From: Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How can one test in situ, and under OI, the physical blocksize a SATA disk actually reports?? To: Discussion list for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How can one test in situ, and under OI, the physical blocksize a SATA disk actually reports??

2013-03-20 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Where does George Wilson discuss this?? On 2013-03-20 16:51, Reginald Beardsley wrote: The biggest obstacle I ran into was the omission of the step to reconfigure the driver using cfgadm by detaching and reattaching as discussed by George Wilson.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How can one test in situ, and under OI, the physical blocksize a SATA disk actually reports??

2013-03-20 Thread Reginald Beardsley
Link's at top of this page: http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks http://blog.delphix.com/gwilson/2012/11/15/4k-sectors-and-zfs/ --- On Wed, 3/20/13, Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se wrote: From: Hans J. Albertsson