I had a perfectly working 7 drive raidz pool using some on board STATA
connectors and some on PCI SATA controller cards. My pool was using 500GB
drives. I had the stupid idea to replace my 500GB drives with 2TB ( Mitsubishi
) drives. This process resulted in me loosing much of my data ( see my other
post ). Now that I am picking up the pieces, I think I have tracked the problem
down to some incompatibility with the drives and on board SATA. I can create
pools on the controller card SATA slots, but not on the on board SATA. ( see
below ). I can switch the two drives around and I can always create pools on
the external (c11t0d0 ) SATA but never on the internal. However, with a 500GB
drive it works fine on either one.
Does anyone know how to resolve this. Is there a bios update or some kind of
patch or something? Please help.
my motherboard is a MSI N1996. I have two,l so I tried the other one with the
same result, so it's not a hardware failure. The other thing I notice is the
drives look different to format. These are identical drives.
# format
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c3d0 <DEFAULT cyl 4859 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1c/pci-...@0/i...@1/c...@0,0
1. c6d1 <Hitachi- JK1131YAGGULD-0001-16777216.>
/p...@0,0/pci-...@1f,2/i...@1/c...@1,0
2. c11t0d0 <ATA-Hitachi HDS72202-A20N-1.82TB>
/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@1c,2/pci1095,7...@0/d...@0,0
Specify disk (enter its number):
Specify disk (enter its number):
Specify disk (enter its number): zpool create test^C
#
# zpool destroy test3
# zpool create test3 c11t0d0
# zpool create test4 c6d1
invalid vdev specification
use '-f' to override the following errors:
/dev/dsk/c6d1s0 is part of exported or potentially active ZFS pool test2.
Please see zpool(1M).
# zpool create -f test4 c6d1
cannot create 'test4': invalid argument for this pool operation
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