Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-12-05 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4ebbfb5...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: CR 7102272: ZFS storage pool created on a 3 TB USB 3.0 device has device label problems Let us know if this is still a problem in the OS11 FCS release. I finally got upgraded from Solaris 11 Express SRU 12 to S11 FCS. Solaris 11

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-13 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:08:04AM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: On Nov 12, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 08:15:31AM -0500, David Magda wrote: On Nov 12, 2011, at 00:55, Richard Elling wrote: Better than ? If the disks advertise 512 bytes, the only

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-13 Thread Richard Elling
tip below… On Nov 13, 2011, at 3:24 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:08:04AM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: On Nov 12, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 08:15:31AM -0500, David Magda wrote: On Nov 12, 2011, at 00:55, Richard Elling wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 09:55:29PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: On Nov 10, 2011, at 7:47 PM, David Magda wrote: On Nov 10, 2011, at 18:41, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:17:55PM -0400, John D Groenveld wrote: Under both Solaris 10 and Solaris 11x, I receive the evil

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-12 Thread David Magda
On Nov 12, 2011, at 00:55, Richard Elling wrote: Better than ? If the disks advertise 512 bytes, the only way around it is with a whitelist. I would be rather surprised if Oracle sells 4KB sector disks for Solaris systems… Solaris 10. OpenSolaris. But would it be surprising to use SANs

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 08:15:31AM -0500, David Magda wrote: On Nov 12, 2011, at 00:55, Richard Elling wrote: Better than ? If the disks advertise 512 bytes, the only way around it is with a whitelist. I would be rather surprised if Oracle sells 4KB sector disks for Solaris systems?

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-12 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 12, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 08:15:31AM -0500, David Magda wrote: On Nov 12, 2011, at 00:55, Richard Elling wrote: Better than ? If the disks advertise 512 bytes, the only way around it is with a whitelist. I would be rather surprised if

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-11 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 10, 2011, at 7:47 PM, David Magda wrote: On Nov 10, 2011, at 18:41, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:17:55PM -0400, John D Groenveld wrote: Under both Solaris 10 and Solaris 11x, I receive the evil message: | I/O request is not aligned with 4096 disk sector size. |

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-10 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4e9db04b.80...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: This is CR 7102272. What is the title of this BugId? I'm trying to attach my Oracle CSI to it but Chuck Rozwat and company's support engineer can't seem to find it. Once I get upgraded from S11x SRU12 to S11, I'll reproduce on a more

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-10 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi John, CR 7102272: ZFS storage pool created on a 3 TB USB 3.0 device has device label problems Let us know if this is still a problem in the OS11 FCS release. Thanks, Cindy On 11/10/11 08:55, John D Groenveld wrote: In message4e9db04b.80...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: This

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-10 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:17:55PM -0400, John D Groenveld wrote: Under both Solaris 10 and Solaris 11x, I receive the evil message: | I/O request is not aligned with 4096 disk sector size. | It is handled through Read Modify Write but the performance is very low. I got similar with 4k sector

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-11-10 Thread David Magda
On Nov 10, 2011, at 18:41, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:17:55PM -0400, John D Groenveld wrote: Under both Solaris 10 and Solaris 11x, I receive the evil message: | I/O request is not aligned with 4096 disk sector size. | It is handled through Read Modify Write but the

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 201110150202.p9f22w2n000...@elvis.arl.psu.edu, John D Groenveld writes: I'm baffled why zpool import is unable to find the pool on the drive, but the drive is definitely functional. Per Richard Elling, it looks like ZFS is unable to find the requisite labels for importing. John

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi John, I'm going to file a CR to get this issue reviewed by the USB team first, but if you could humor me with another test: Can you run newfs to create a UFS file system on this device and mount it? Thanks, Cindy On 10/18/11 08:18, John D Groenveld wrote: In message

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4e9d98b1.8040...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: I'm going to file a CR to get this issue reviewed by the USB team first, but if you could humor me with another test: Can you run newfs to create a UFS file system on this device and mount it? # uname -srvp SunOS 5.11 151.0.1.12

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Yeah, okay, duh. I should have known that large sector size support is only available for a non-root ZFS file system. A couple more things if you're still interested: 1. If you re-create the pool on the whole disk, like this: # zpool create foo c1t0d0 Then, resend the prtvtoc output for

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4e9da8b1.7020...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: 1. If you re-create the pool on the whole disk, like this: # zpool create foo c1t0d0 Then, resend the prtvtoc output for c1t0d0s0. # zpool create snafu c1t0d0 # zpool status snafu pool: snafu state: ONLINE scan: none requested

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread Cindy Swearingen
This is CR 7102272. cs On 10/18/11 10:50, John D Groenveld wrote: In message 4e9da8b1.7020...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: 1. If you re-create the pool on the whole disk, like this: # zpool create foo c1t0d0 Then, resend the prtvtoc output for c1t0d0s0. # zpool create snafu c1t0d0

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-18 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4e9db04b.80...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: This is CR 7102272. Anyone out there have Western Digital's competing 3TB Passport drive handy to duplicate this bug? John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-15 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 14, 2011, at 7:02 PM, John D Groenveld wrote: As a sanity check, I connected the drive to a Windows 7 installation. I was able to partition, create an NTFS volume on it, eject and remount it. I also tried creating the zpool on my Solaris 10 system, exporting and trying to import the

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, John D Groenveld wrote: I'm baffled why zpool import is unable to find the pool on the drive, but the drive is definitely functional. What type of controller is this drive attached to? I have heard that some popular LSI controllers just don't work for large drives.

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-14 Thread John D Groenveld
As a sanity check, I connected the drive to a Windows 7 installation. I was able to partition, create an NTFS volume on it, eject and remount it. I also tried creating the zpool on my Solaris 10 system, exporting and trying to import the pool on my Solaris 11X system and again no love. I'm

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Swearingen In the steps below, you're missing a zpool import step. I would like to see the error message when the zpool import step fails. I see him doing this... # truss -t open

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-13 Thread Casper . Dik
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Swearingen In the steps below, you're missing a zpool import step. I would like to see the error message when the zpool import step fails. I see him doing this... # truss -t open

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: casper@oracle.com [mailto:casper@oracle.com] What is the partition table? He also said this... -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of John D Groenveld # zpool create foo c1t0d0

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-13 Thread Casper . Dik
From: casper@oracle.com [mailto:casper@oracle.com] What is the partition table? He also said this... -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of John D Groenveld # zpool create foo c1t0d0

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-13 Thread Cindy Swearingen
John, Any USB-related messages in /var/adm/messages for this device? Thanks, Cindy On 10/12/11 11:29, John D Groenveld wrote: In message 4e95cb2a.30...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: What is the error when you attempt to import this pool? cannot import 'foo': no such pool available

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-13 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 201110131150.p9dbo8yk011...@acsinet22.oracle.com, Casper.Dik@oracl e.com writes: What is the partition table? I thought about that so I reproduced with the legacy SMI label and a Solaris fdisk partition with ZFS on slice 0. Same result as EFI; once I export the pool I cannot import it.

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-13 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4e970387.3040...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: Any USB-related messages in /var/adm/messages for this device? Negative. cfgadm(1M) shows the drive and format-fdisk-analyze-read runs merrily. John groenv...@acm.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-12 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi John, What is the error when you attempt to import this pool? Thanks, Cindy On 10/11/11 18:17, John D Groenveld wrote: Banging my head against a Seagate 3TB USB3 drive. Its marketing name is: Seagate Expansion 3 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive STAY3000102 format(1M) shows it

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-12 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4e95cb2a.30...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: What is the error when you attempt to import this pool? cannot import 'foo': no such pool available John groenv...@acm.org # format -e Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c1t0d0 Seagate-External-SG11 cyl

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-12 Thread Cindy Swearingen
In the steps below, you're missing a zpool import step. I would like to see the error message when the zpool import step fails. Thanks, Cindy On 10/12/11 11:29, John D Groenveld wrote: In message 4e95cb2a.30...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: What is the error when you attempt to import

Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-12 Thread John D Groenveld
In message 4e95e10f.9070...@oracle.com, Cindy Swearingen writes: In the steps below, you're missing a zpool import step. I would like to see the error message when the zpool import step fails. zpool import returns nothing. The truss shows it poking around c1t0d0 fdisk partitions and Solaris

[zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-11 Thread John D Groenveld
Banging my head against a Seagate 3TB USB3 drive. Its marketing name is: Seagate Expansion 3 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive STAY3000102 format(1M) shows it identify itself as: Seagate-External-SG11-2.73TB Under both Solaris 10 and Solaris 11x, I receive the evil message: | I/O request is