I solved the mystery - an astounding 7 out of the 10 brand new disks I was using were bad. I was using 4 at a time, and it wasn't until a good one got in the mix that I realized what was wrong. FYI, these were Western Digital WD15EADS and Samsung HD154UI. Each brand was mostly bad, with one or two good disks. The bad ones are functional enough that the BIOS can tell what type they are, but I got a lot of errors when I plugged them into a Linux box to check them.
The whole thing is bizarre enough that I wonder if they got damaged in shipping or if my machine somehow damaged them. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
