Richard Elling writes: 

> You might check out this thread, as it does not appear to be
> a ZFS issue, per se, and there may be a more appropriate forum
> to answer the question.
> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=234979

Thanks Richard.  I guess the ZFS bit is that ZFS root can't boot (not 
opening the pool?) while UFS can. 

Ian 

>  
> 
> Ian Collins wrote:
>> I wanted to resurrect an old dual P3 system with a couple of IDE drives
>> to use as a low power quiet NIS/DHCP/FlexLM server so I tried installing
>> ZFS boot from build 90. 
>> 
>> The install ran through without issue, creating a mirror pool on the two
>> drives.  On reboot, I was surprised to see 2 sets of grub entries for
>> b90, which I don't see on other system.  After the copyright message,
>> the system stalled repeatedly reporting ATA errors.  These show up on a
>> number of drives, so it must be a system issue. 
>> 
>> I reinstalled with UFS and the errors still appear, but the system boots
>> up OK.  It looks like ZFS can't mount the pool due to the errors, but
>> UFS can mount.  From messages: 
>> 
>> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0):
>> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack    timeout: abort request, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0):
>> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack    timeout: abort device, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0):
>> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack    timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0):
>> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack    timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0):
>> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack    timeout: early timeout, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL 
>> PROTECTED],0 (Disk0):
>> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack    Error for command 'read sector' Error Level:
>> Informational
>> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]       Sense Key:
>> aborted command
>> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]       Vendor 'Gen-ATA
>> ' error code: 0x3
>> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL 
>> PROTECTED],0 (Disk0):
>> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack    Error for command 'read sector' Error Level:
>> Informational
>> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]       Sense Key:
>> aborted command
>> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]       Vendor 'Gen-ATA
>> ' error code: 0x3
>> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack unix: [ID 557827 kern.info] cpu1 initialization
>> complete - online 
>> 
>> Ian. 
>> 
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