Re: [zfs-discuss] X4500 device disconnect problem persists

2007-10-28 Thread Michael
I got it too. Its a brand new x4500 (my 2nd eval box after the other one use to freeze up). I got this while running a java program that tries and reads a 128G file while writing a 100G file in 2 threads with 128K blocks. Oct 29 00:56:28 zeta1 marvell88sx: [ID 670675 kern.info] NOTICE: marvell88

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root boot (installgrub fails)

2007-10-28 Thread Carl Brewer
I'm seeing the same problem with b75a. I ran the manual setup instructions - I have an IDE disk I'm using as the temporary UFS drive and a pair of SATA HDD's to use as a zfs mirror for root/boot. Did you get it working? If so, how? reformatting the drive(s) so that s2 is the whole disk?

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root boot (installgrub fails)

2007-10-28 Thread Carl Brewer
For the archive, I think the reason this happened is because I'd used ZFS before on these disks, and fdisk wasn't happy. See here : As mentioned above, ZFS root boot only works with SMI labeled disks - if you've ever given ZFS the entire disk before, it'll have put an EFI label on the disk, so

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs root boot (installgrub fails)

2007-10-28 Thread Carl Brewer
further to this, there's quite a trick to getting fdisk to work. It's not at all intuitive! from here : http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=77297 run format->fdisk, delete the current partition, quit format rerun format, answer no if you are asked to Label it now. select fdisk

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4500 device disconnect problem persists

2007-10-28 Thread Willi Burmeister
Hi, we have the same problem. Our X4500 has Solaris 10 11/06 and (nearly) every kernel and driver related patch installed. Nothing set in /etc/system fmdump is not showing any errors -- # fmdump TIME UUID