Hello Cindy, I have got my LSI controllers and exchanged them for the Areca. The result is stunning: 1. exported pool (in this strange state I reported here) 2. changed controller and re-ordered the drives as before posting this matter (c-b-a back to a-b-c) 3. Booted Osol 4. imported pool
Result: everything but the previously inactive spare drive was immediately discovered and imported. I am really impressed. The problem was clearly related to the Areca controller. (I should say that the whole procedure wasn't 1,2,3,4 as I had to solve quite a lot of hw related issues, such as writing IT firmware over IR type in order to get all drives hooked up correctly, but that's another greenhorn story.) Best , Tonmaus -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
