Did you ever figure this out? I''m trying to do the same thing and also getting "new device must be a single disk". -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Tertius Lydgate wrote:> Did you ever figure this out?Figure what out? -- Ian.
Figure out how to mirror a root pool on one USB stick to another. It gives me the error "new device must be a single disk" even though the new device is a single disk. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:42:02 PDT, Tertius Lydgate <no-reply at opensolaris.org> wrote:>Figure out how to mirror a root pool on one USB stick to another. >It gives me the error "new device must be a single disk" >even though the new device is a single disk.If it''s an U3 stick, it may behave like two devices. You''ll have to "un-U3" it before you can use it. -- ( Kees Nuyt ) c[_]
Tertius Lydgate wrote:> Figure out how to mirror a root pool on one USB stick to another. It gives me the error "new device must be a single disk" even though the new device is a single disk. >IIRC, you will get this error message if you try to "zpool add" rather than "zpool attach" the disk. "zpool attach" is how you build mirrors. For detailed steps, see the section on mirroring root pools in the ZFS Administration Guide. Note that you BIOS will need to support booting from USB devices. -- richard
Hi, this drive doesn''t have U3. Just to be sure I even found a windows computer and tried it out, but nothing popped up. I also tried a U3 removal utility but it didn''t detect the drive as U3. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
I have just tried again confirming that I used attach and not add. It still
gives the same message ("new device must be a single disk") even
though it is a single disk.
I''ve tried reformatting it and wiping it a few times now too.
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