[zfs-macos] Re: Weird I/O block

2014-11-18 Thread Anders Wallén
New day, new cables. Now the computer recognizes the two ZFS arrays, but once again I cannot read from or write to them. Old array: anderswallen:~ anderswa$ sudo zpool status -v pool: array state: ONLINE status: One or more devices are faulted in response to IO failures. action:

Re: [zfs-macos] Re: Weird I/O block

2014-11-18 Thread BelecMartin
Cool, getting somewhere. Can you give a quick rundown how things are connected in your system and what cables are between various elements to provide a better picture. What kind of controller for the drives, etc...? Jason Belec Sent from my It's an iPod, a Phone, and an Internet Device... On

Re: [zfs-macos] Re: Weird I/O block

2014-11-18 Thread Anders Wallén
The arrays are housed in cabinets of this type http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GYDMYG/ (one each). Each cabinet is connected directly to a dedicated USB 3-port on the Mac Mini. The Mini itself is a quad core i7, running the latest version of Mac OS X. I'm surprised that the cables failed

Re: [zfs-macos] Weird I/O block

2014-11-18 Thread Daniel Becker
Based on what you posted earlier, you’re still seeing lots of read and write errors after replacing the cables, so I highly doubt those were really the root of your problem. On Nov 18, 2014, at 12:23 PM, Anders Wallén anders_wal...@mac.com wrote: The arrays are housed in cabinets of this

Re: [zfs-macos] Weird I/O block

2014-11-18 Thread Daniel Becker
Can you try connecting these to a different machine, and/or via either eSATA or USB 2.0? On Nov 18, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Daniel Becker razzf...@gmail.com wrote: Based on what you posted earlier, you’re still seeing lots of read and write errors after replacing the cables, so I highly doubt

Re: [zfs-macos] Re: Weird I/O block

2014-11-18 Thread BelecMartin
Yikes, did you say USB Oh I'm going to go back into my cave. Jason Belec Sent from my It's an iPod, a Phone, and an Internet Device... On Nov 18, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Anders Wallén anders_wal...@mac.com wrote: The arrays are housed in cabinets of this type (one each). Each cabinet is

Re: [zfs-macos] Weird I/O block

2014-11-18 Thread Daniel Becker
Really, though, it looks like there’s a bunch of reviews online (Amazon, Newegg, …) that mention stability issues with these boxes, drives dropping out under load and USB 3 flakiness. If these are indeed accurate (I don’t have any personal experience with them), I’m not surprised you’d run into