Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up ZFS on AHCI disks

2010-04-17 Thread Willard Korfhage
I solved the mystery - an astounding 7 out of the 10 brand new disks I was using were bad. I was using 4 at a time, and it wasn't until a good one got in the mix that I realized what was wrong. FYI, these were Western Digital WD15EADS and Samsung HD154UI. Each brand was mostly bad, with one or t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up ZFS on AHCI disks

2010-04-16 Thread Willard Korfhage
isainfo -k returns amd64, so I don't think that is the answer. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up ZFS on AHCI disks

2010-04-16 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:46:01AM -0700, Willard Korfhage wrote: > The drives are recent - 1.5TB drives I'm going to bet this is a 32-bit system, and you're getting screwed by the 1TB limit that applies there. If so, you will find clues hidden in dmesg from boot time about this, as the drives ar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up ZFS on AHCI disks

2010-04-16 Thread Willard Korfhage
> There should be no need to create partitions. > Something simple like this > hould work: > zpool create junkfooblah c13t0d0 > > And if it doesn't work, try "zpool status" just to > verify for certain, that > device is not already part of any pool. It is not part of any pool. I get the same "ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up ZFS on AHCI disks

2010-04-16 Thread Willard Korfhage
No Areca controller on this machine. It is a different box, and the drives are just plugged into the SATA ports on the motherboard. I'm running build svn_133, too. The drives are recent - 1.5TB drives, 3 Western Digital and 1 Seagate, if I recall correctly. They ought to support SATA-2. They ar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up ZFS on AHCI disks

2010-04-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Willard Korfhage > > devfsadm -Cv gave a lot of "removing file" messages, apparently for > items that were not relevant. That's good. If there were no necessary changes, devfsadm would say no

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up ZFS on AHCI disks

2010-04-16 Thread Tonmaus
Your adapter read-outs look quite different than mine. I am on ICH-9, snv_133. Maybe that's why. But I thought I should ask on that occasion: -build? -do the drives currently support SATA-2 standard (by model, by jumper settings?) - could it be that the Areca controller has done something to them

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up ZFS on AHCI disks

2010-04-16 Thread Willard Korfhage
devfsadm -Cv gave a lot of "removing file" messages, apparently for items that were not relevant. cfgadm -al says, about the disks, sata0/0::dsk/c13t0d0 disk connectedconfigured ok sata0/1::dsk/c13t1d0 disk connectedconfigured ok sata0/2::dsk/c13t2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up ZFS on AHCI disks

2010-04-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tonmaus > > are the drives properly configured in cfgadm? I agree. You need to do these: devfsadm -Cv cfgadm -al ___ zfs-discuss m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up ZFS on AHCI disks

2010-04-15 Thread Tonmaus
Hi, are the drives properly configured in cfgadm? Cheers, Tonmaus -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Setting up ZFS on AHCI disks

2010-04-15 Thread Willard Korfhage
I'm trying to set up a raidz pool on 4 disks attached to an Asus P5BV-M motherboard with an Intel ICH7R. The bios lets me pick IDE, RAID, or AHCI for the disks. I'm not interested in the motherboard's raid, and reading previous posts, it sounded like there were performance advantages to picking