> > We ran into something similar with these drives in an X4170 that
> turned
> > out to
> > be  an issue of the preconfigured logical volumes on the drives. Once
> > we made
> > sure all of our Sun PCI HBAs where running the exact same version of
> > firmware
> > and recreated the volumes on new drives arriving from Sun we got back
> > into sync
> > on the X25-E devices sizes.
> 
> Can you elaborate?  Just today, we got the replacement drive that has
> precisely the right version of firmware and everything.  Still, when we
> plugged in that drive, and "create simple volume" in the storagetek
> raid utility, the new drive is 0.001 Gb smaller than the old drive.
> I'm still hosed.
> 
> Are you saying I might benefit by sticking the SSD into some laptop,
> and zero'ing the disk?  And then attach to the sun server?
> 
> Are you saying I might benefit by finding some other way to make the
> drive available, instead of using the storagetek raid utility?
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions...

Sorry for the double post.  Since the wrong-sized drive was discussed in two
separate threads, I want to stick a link here to the other one, where the
question was answered.  Just incase anyone comes across this discussion by
search or whatever...

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2010-April/039669.html

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