If i remember well this 2k sector problem has been discussed last week on this mailinglist.
I am very interested in how do use these drives since i want to buy some as well. Kind regards, The out-side Op 28 sep. 2012 om 21:02 heeft Rainer Heilke <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven: > Is there a way to change the bytes per sector? When I Googled about my > problem, I saw talk about 512 bps. When I look, I get: > format> ver > > Volume name = < > > ascii name = <ST3000DM-001-9YN166- -746.52GB> > bytes/sector = 512 > sectors = 1565565871 > accessible sectors = 1565565838 > Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector > 0 usr wm 256 746.51GB 1565549454 > 1 unassigned wm 0 0 0 > 2 unassigned wm 0 0 0 > 3 unassigned wm 0 0 0 > 4 unassigned wm 0 0 0 > 5 unassigned wm 0 0 0 > 6 unassigned wm 0 0 0 > 7 unassigned wm 0 0 0 > 8 reserved wm 1565549455 8.00MB 1565565838 > > format> > > If I changed this to 2KB/sector, it would give me 2986.04GB. How would I even > do this? > > Rainer > On 9/28/2012 11:38 AM, Rainer Heilke wrote: >> I wish you'd been more verbose too. ;-) Maybe it will let me "modify" the >> table... >> >> Rainer >> On 9/28/2012 5:54 AM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: >>> From my notes configuring a 3 TB Hitachi in June 2011 on Sol 10 u8. >>> >>> "After considerable fubar, the key to formatting the 3 TB disk was to use, >>> 'format -e', supply LBA pseudo geometry & create an EFI label. NB Must run >>> fdisk from inside format." >>> >>> All I remember is I did it once. Now I wish I'd been more verbose in my >>> notes. >>> >>> The Hitachi is pulled for RMA. As I recall the BIOS reported it as 887 GB. >>> ZFS saw the entire drive, though it's really only 2.79 TB. But it worked >>> just fine until it starting failing. >>> >>> Hope this helps. >>> >>> Reg >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > -- > Mind the Gap > Web: http://www.dragonhearth.com > Blog: http://chaos.dragonhearth.com > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
