I finally managed to resolve this. I received some useful info from Richard
Elling (without List CC):
>> (ME) However I sill think, also the plain IDE driver needs a timeout to
>> hande disk failures, cause cables etc can fail.
>(Richard) Yes, this is a little bit odd. The sd driver should be
Ok, after browsing I found that the sata disks are not shown via cfgadm.
I found http://opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=287791&tstart=0
which states that you have to set the mode to "AHCI" to enable hot-plug etc.
However I sill think, also the plain IDE driver needs a timeout to han
Ok,
I now waited 30 minutes - still hung. After that I pulled the SATA cable to the
L2ARC device also - still no success (I waited 10 minutes).
After 10 minutes I put the L2ARC device back (SATA + Power)
20 seconds after that the system continues to run.
dmesg shows:
Jan 8 15:41:57 nexe
Hello,
today I wanted to test that the failure of the L2ARC device is not crucial to
the pool. I added a Intel X25-M Postville (160GB) as cache device to a 54 disk
mittor pool. Then I startet a SYNC iozone on the pool:
iozone -ec -r 32k -s 2048m -l 2 -i 0 -i 2 -o
Pool:
pool
mirror-0
