On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 03:55:59PM -0700, Marion Hakanson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > With this OS version, format is giving lines such as: > > 9. c2t21000004D9600099d0 <DEFAULT cyl 48638 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63> > > /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci10de,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1077,[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 > > whereas, again to my recollection, previously the drive manufacturer was > > actually listed. > > Pardon me for butting in: What you describe is exactly what I've seen > when format (or the scsi_vhci drivers, or whatever) sees a new drive/LUN > without a valid label. It will fabricate up a default label, which defaults > to the non-EFI flavor (SMC label, I think it's called). How you got here, > I can only guess, but until you get back to the "whole-disk" EFI label that > zpool import" recognizes, you're going to get nowhere. > > If the disk/LUN was really not reformatted, you might be able to restore > the label by first converting the disk to EFI, and then copying a label > from one of the working disks. > > Of course, if the label got lost, it doesn't give one a lot of confidence > about the rest of the disk's contents....
I seriously owe you about... well, 1.5TB worth of restores and my social life worth of beers. This was absolutely the problem, and doing format -e and converting the label to EFI lets zdb -l on s0 return the information for the zpool. I'm in the process now of labelling all of the member disks, and then I'll see if zpool import works. Seriously, thanks a ton for speaking up and sending off your email, this has saved me from an extremely frustrating evening. Jeff > > Regards, > > Marion > > -- Jeff Bachtel ([EMAIL PROTECTED],TAMU) http://www.cepheid.org/~jeff "The sciences, each straining in [finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key] its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little;" - HPL, TCoC _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
