Perc6 is limited to 2TB with SATA disks. It may be able to use 3TB SAS
disks (not personally confirmed)

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Gareth Howell <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks Richard
> ‘diskinfo’ shows both disks as being 2TB.
>
> I think the problem is related to how I am accessing the disks. This is a
> s/h Dell T310 that’s fitted with a PERC 6/i.
>
> There doesn’t seem to be any way to disable the PERC so I set it up to see
> each disk in its own array of one disk. Smartos then sees the disks as two
> separate disks and I was able to get going.
>
> Thanks
>
> Gareth
>
> On 2 February 2017 at 16:01:36, Robert Mustacchi ([email protected]) wrote:
>
> On 2/2/17 7:58 , Richard Elling wrote:
> >
> >> On Feb 2, 2017, at 7:31 AM, Gareth Howell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi
> >> I’ve just upgraded the two mirrored disks in my zones pool from 1TB
> disks to 3TB disks by replacing each in turn and then doing zpool replace.
> >>
> >> I then did
> >> 'pool scrub'
> >> and
> >> 'zpool set autoexpand=on'
> >>
> >> I expected 'zpool get size' to show 3TB, but it only shows 2TB.
> >
> > This can happen if the drive is SATA and the BIOS
> > is set to IDE emulation mode. In such cases, the
> > driver won't be sd, so in iostat -x it will not be sd#
>
> I'd also confirm what size diskinfo sees with it.
>
> Robert
>
>
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