The "in use" message seems to be the result of a munged disk label.
I tried a dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=100 of=/dev/rdsk/c5t0d0p0 which then allowed me to successfully run format and put an EFI label on it w/ c5t0d0s0 as ~ 2.7 TB Unfortunately, zpool create bpool c5t0d0 produces a message that the device does not exist. Same if I specify c5t0d0s0. prtvtoc is able to read a proper vtoc, however no attempt to access /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s0 works even though the label has it defined. I'll log out of mail on this system and post the console log. Reg --- On Wed, 10/24/12, Lucas Van Tol <catsey...@hotmail.com> wrote: > From: Lucas Van Tol <catsey...@hotmail.com> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unable to label 3 TB USB disk on 151a7 > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 4:52 PM > > Hm... USB + 'drive may be in use'; it might have > attempted to auto mount the drive. > I remember seeing some similar messages when trying to add a > large USB thumb drive as a mirror to an rpool once. > > Does 'rmformat' see the device? > > -Lucas Van Tol > > > Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:35:28 -0700 > > From: pulask...@yahoo.com > > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unable to label 3 TB USB > disk on 151a7 > > > > I just got a 3 TB Toshiba USB disk to use for backups > for Sol 10 & OI. BIG mistake! > > > > 4k sectors. > > > > sol 10 u8 kernel panics when the disk is selected in > format(1m). At least selecting the replacement 3 TB > Hitachi SATA drive just crashed format. > > > > OI 151a7 can select the drive, but won't write a label > to the drive. > > > > I get a spurious "warning drive may be in use" message > for most operations in format. The only way I can even > attempt to label the drive is via format->type but that > fails w/ a message about writing geometry. > > > > I had been under the impression that large USB drives > were usable w/ OI, but clearly "actual mileage may vary". > > > > Any suggestions? At this point I'm accumulating a > pretty high end Linux box from pieces Solaris & > OpenIndiana can't use. > > > > Reg > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
