Well thank you very much Western Digital for your absolutely pathetic RMA service sending me an inferior drive. I'll call tomorrow and see what can be done; I'm going to insist on these 00R6B0 drives being sent back, and being given a drive of >= 1,500,301,910,016 bytes capacity.
At least now I learned how to hotswap :/ On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Garrett Moore <garrettmo...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Well, hotswapping worked, but now I have a totally different problem. Just >> for reference: >> # zpool offline tank da3 >> # camcontrol stop da3 >> <swap drive> >> # camcontrol rescan all >> <'da3 lost device, removing device entry'> >> # camcontrol rescan all >> <'da3 at mpt0 ...', so new drive was found! yay> >> # zpool replace tank da3 >> *cannot replace da3 with da3: device is too small* >> >> So I looked at the smartctl output for the old and new drive. Old: >> Device Model: WDC WD15EADS-00P8B0 >> Serial Number: WD-WMAVU0087717 >> Firmware Version: 01.00A01 >> User Capacity: 1,500,301,910,016 bytes >> >> New: >> Device Model: WDC WD15EADS-00R6B0 >> Serial Number: WD-WCAVY4770428 >> Firmware Version: 01.00A01 >> User Capacity: 1,500,300,828,160 bytes >> >> God damnit, Western Digital. What can I do now? It's such a small >> difference, is there a way I can work around this? > > > Uff da, I'm pretty sure the answer is no, you would have had to use the > smallest device first when creating the pool I think. > > >> My other replacement >> drive is the "00R6B0" drive model as well, with the slightly smaller >> capacity. >> > > > > -- > Adam Vande More > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
