Re: [zfs-discuss] 2TB drive will not work on motherboard

2010-08-19 Thread seth keith
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-di

Re: [zfs-discuss] 2TB drive will not work on motherboard

2010-08-18 Thread seth keith
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 ___ zfs-discuss m

[zfs-discuss] 2TB drive will not work on motherboard

2010-08-18 Thread seth keith
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 o

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs replace problems please please help

2010-08-12 Thread Seth Keith
> -Original Message- > From: Mark J Musante [mailto:mark.musa...@oracle.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 5:03 AM > To: Seth Keith > Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs replace problems please please help > > On Tue, 10 Au

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs replace problems please please help

2010-08-11 Thread seth keith
this is for newbies like myself: I used using 'zdb -l' wrong, just using the drive name from 'zpool status' or format which is like c6d1, didn't work. I needed to add s0 to the end: zdb -l /dev/dsk/c6d1s0 gives me a good looking label ( I think ). The pool_guid values are the same for all

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs replace problems please please help

2010-08-10 Thread seth keith
First off double thanks for replying to my post. I tried to your advice but something is way wrong. I have all 2TB drives disconnected, and the 7 500GB drives connected. All 7 show up in bios and in format. Here all the drives are the original 7 500Mb drives: # format Searching for disk

[zfs-discuss] zfs replace problems please please help

2010-08-10 Thread seth keith
first off I don't have the exact failure messages here, and I did not take good notes of the failures, so I will do the best I can. Please try and give me advice anyway. I have a 7 drive raidz1 pool with 500G drives, and I wanted to replace them all with 2TB drives. Immediately I ran into trou