I had a perfectly working 7 drive raidz pool using some on board STATA
connectors and some on PCI SATA controller cards. My pool was using 500GB
drives. I had the stupid idea to replace my 500GB drives with 2TB ( Mitsubishi )
drives. This process resulted in me loosing much of my data ( see my other post
). Now that I am picking up the pieces, I think I have tracked the problem down
to some incompatibility with the drives and on board SATA. I can create pools on
the controller card SATA slots, but not on the on board SATA. ( see below ). I
can switch the two drives around and I can always create pools on the external
(c11t0d0 ) SATA but never on the internal. However, with a 500GB drive it works
fine on either one.
Does anyone know how to resolve this. Is there a bios update or some kind of
patch or something? Please help.
my motherboard is a MSI N1996. I have two,l so I tried the other one with the
same result, so it''s not a hardware failure. The other thing I notice
is the drives look different to format. These are identical drives.
# format
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c3d0 <DEFAULT cyl 4859 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci at 0,0/pci8086,3a40 at 1c/pci-ide at 0/ide at 1/cmdk at 0,0
1. c6d1 <Hitachi- JK1131YAGGULD-0001-16777216.>
/pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 1f,2/ide at 1/cmdk at 1,0
2. c11t0d0 <ATA-Hitachi HDS72202-A20N-1.82TB>
/pci at 0,0/pci8086,3a44 at 1c,2/pci1095,7132 at 0/disk at 0,0
Specify disk (enter its number):
Specify disk (enter its number):
Specify disk (enter its number): zpool create test^C
#
# zpool destroy test3
# zpool create test3 c11t0d0
# zpool create test4 c6d1
invalid vdev specification
use ''-f'' to override the following errors:
/dev/dsk/c6d1s0 is part of exported or potentially active ZFS pool test2. Please
see zpool(1M).
# zpool create -f test4 c6d1
cannot create ''test4'': invalid argument for this pool
operation
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On 08/19/10 04:56 AM, seth keith wrote:> I had a perfectly working 7 drive raidz pool using some on board STATA connectors and some on PCI SATA controller cards. My pool was using 500GB drives. I had the stupid idea to replace my 500GB drives with 2TB ( Mitsubishi ) drives. This process resulted in me loosing much of my data ( see my other post ). Now that I am picking up the pieces, I think I have tracked the problem down to some incompatibility with the drives and on board SATA. I can create pools on the controller card SATA slots, but not on the on board SATA. ( see below ). I can switch the two drives around and I can always create pools on the external (c11t0d0 ) SATA but never on the internal. However, with a 500GB drive it works fine on either one. > > Does anyone know how to resolve this. Is there a bios update or some kind of patch or something? Please help. > > my motherboard is a MSI N1996. I have two,l so I tried the other one with the same result, so it''s not a hardware failure. The other thing I notice is the drives look different to format. These are identical drives. > >Is this a 32 bit system? If so, you''re out of luck with 2TB drives. -- Ian.
this is a 64 bit system, and I already used 2 of these drives in a raidz1 pool and they worked great, except I needed to use the SATA controller card and not the motherboard SATA. Any ideas? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
I got the motherboard wrong. It is a P45 Neo3-FR. The onboard ethernet is flaky, but "supported", and the USB attached drives work fine w/ 2TB drives, but not the motherboard attached SATA ports... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Cameron Hanover
2010-Aug-20 12:34 UTC
[zfs-discuss] 2TB drive will not work on motherboard
A bit of googling pointed to your motherboard having an ICH10R chipset. One person seems to think a BIOS update will support >2TB drives. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/263509-30-gigabyte-ep45-ud3p-ich10r-raid-drives-working -- Cameron Hanover chanover at umich.edu All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed. On Aug 19, 2010, at 10:00 PM, seth keith wrote:> I got the motherboard wrong. It is a P45 Neo3-FR. The onboard ethernet is flaky, but "supported", and the USB attached drives work fine w/ 2TB drives, but not the motherboard attached SATA ports... > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > >