You might check out this thread, as it does not appear to be a ZFS issue, per se, and there may be a more appropriate forum to answer the question. http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=234979 -- richard
Ian Collins wrote: > I wanted to resurrect an old dual P3 system with a couple of IDE drives > to use as a low power quiet NIS/DHCP/FlexLM server so I tried installing > ZFS boot from build 90. > > The install ran through without issue, creating a mirror pool on the two > drives. On reboot, I was surprised to see 2 sets of grub entries for > b90, which I don't see on other system. After the copyright message, > the system stalled repeatedly reporting ATA errors. These show up on a > number of drives, so it must be a system issue. > > I reinstalled with UFS and the errors still appear, but the system boots > up OK. It looks like ZFS can't mount the pool due to the errors, but > UFS can mount. From messages: > > Jun 28 16:09:19 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: > /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0): > Jun 28 16:09:19 zack timeout: abort request, target=0 lun=0 > Jun 28 16:09:19 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: > /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0): > Jun 28 16:09:19 zack timeout: abort device, target=0 lun=0 > Jun 28 16:09:19 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: > /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0): > Jun 28 16:09:19 zack timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0 > Jun 28 16:09:19 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: > /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0): > Jun 28 16:09:19 zack timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0 > Jun 28 16:09:20 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: > /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0): > Jun 28 16:09:20 zack timeout: early timeout, target=0 lun=0 > Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: > /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL > PROTECTED],0 (Disk0): > Jun 28 16:09:20 zack Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: > Informational > Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: > aborted command > Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Vendor 'Gen-ATA > ' error code: 0x3 > Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: > /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL > PROTECTED],0 (Disk0): > Jun 28 16:09:20 zack Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: > Informational > Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: > aborted command > Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Vendor 'Gen-ATA > ' error code: 0x3 > Jun 28 16:09:20 zack unix: [ID 557827 kern.info] cpu1 initialization > complete - online > > Ian. > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss