On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Gregory Skelton <gskel...@gravity.phys.uwm.edu> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I want to start out by saying ZFS has been a life saver to me, and the > scientific collaboration I work for. I can't imagine working with the TB's > of data that we do, without the snapshots or the ease of moving the data > from one pool to another. > > Right now I'm trying to setup a whiteboxe with OpenSolaris. It has an Areca > 1160 RAID controller(lastest firmware), SuperMicro H8SSL-I mobo, and a > SuperMicro IPMI card. I haven't been working with Solaris for all that long, > and wanted to create a zpool similar to our x4500's. From the documentation > it says to use the format command to locate the disks. > > OpenSolaris lives on a 2 disk Mirrored raid, and I was hoping I could have > the disks pass through, so that zfs could manage the zpool. What am I doing > wrong here, that I can't see all the disks? Or do I have to use a RAID 5 > underneath the zpool? > > Any and all help is appreciated. > Thanks, > Gregory > > > r...@nfs0009:~# format > Searching for disks...done > > > AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: > 0. c3t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 48627 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63> > > /p...@0,0/pci1166,3...@1/pci1166,1...@d/pci8086,3...@1/pci17d3,1...@e/s...@0,0 > 1. c3t1d0 <DEFAULT cyl 48639 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63> > > /p...@0,0/pci1166,3...@1/pci1166,1...@d/pci8086,3...@1/pci17d3,1...@e/s...@1,0 > Specify disk (enter its number): > > > r...@nfs0009:~# ./cli64 disk info > # Ch# ModelName Capacity Usage > =============================================================================== > 1 1 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Raid Set # 00 > 2 2 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Raid Set # 00 > 3 3 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Pass Through > 4 4 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Pass Through > 5 5 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Pass Through > 6 6 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Pass Through > 7 7 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Pass Through > 8 8 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Pass Through > 9 9 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Pass Through > 10 10 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Pass Through > 11 11 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Pass Through > 12 12 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Pass Through > 13 13 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Pass Through > 14 14 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Pass Through > 15 15 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Pass Through > 16 16 WDC WD4000YS-01MPB1 400.1GB Pass Through > =============================================================================== > GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success. > r...@nfs0009:~#
Perhaps you have change the configuration of the array since the last reconfiguration boot. If you run "devfsadm" then run format, does it see more disks? -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
