Harry wrote: >> However I hit a snag right away. Pulled a 200gb added a 750 but on >> boot when I get to that screen I see: >> >> Press F3 to enter configuration utility >> Primary channel: WDC WD200-blah-blah 190782 MB >> Primary secondary: WDC WD750-blah-blah >> >> Note the size is missing. And there the boot hangs.. forever. >> Pressing F3 has no effect whatever. >>
Ian Collins <[email protected]> replied: > It looks like the card BOIS has written to the dives and expects the > same drive to be there. Harry wrote: >> So it appears I'm stuck. I'm thinking the problem is that the adaptec >> for some reason needs to be able to report a size and that is whats >> hanging things up. >> >> So I wondered if it might get me past this hang if I were to plug that >> new 750 into a windows/or linux machine and format it, either as ntfs >> on windows or just fdisk a partition of the entire drive on linux. >> Ian replied: > Unlikely, ZFS will re-label the drive an the card should be able to > work with new drives. How would this relabeling occur. Somehow I need to get past that screen right? > Check the BIOS documentation for the card. I mentioned that pressing F3 doesn't do anything. That is, I have now way to enter the configuration tool. I'm not sure what you mean then, except to maybe learn if this card will not work for these drives. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
