On 01/20/2013 02:10 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 01/20/2013 01:57 PM, Ulrich Hagen wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I have recently added an Intel SASUC8I controller to my home file >> server, and hooked up eight Western Digital Red 3000GB disks to it. >> >> Only after I started filling up the new pool I noticed that the >> capacity of the pool is not what I expected it to be. >> And really: 'format' lists e. g. one of these disks as >> c1t0d0 <ATA-WDC WD30EFRX-68A-0A80-2.00TB> >> >> My plan is now to buy an IBM ServeRAID-M1015 controller, flash it with >> LSI IT firmware, and use that one instead. >> >> Now my question: Can I keep my pool intact? I want to do this as >> follows: >> 1 - Export the pool, power off the computer >> 2 - Remove the SASUC81, insert the M1015 >> 3 - Power on the computer, import the pool. >> 4 - See that the pool's capacity has grown by about 5.4 TiB >> (It is a RAIDZ2, and yes, I know that eight HDs is not an ideal size >> for that.) >> >> The 'autoexpand' property of the pool is set to 'on'. >> >> In case it matters: I am running oi_151a7. > > What's your pool's ashift? > # zdb <poolname> | grep ashift > > I've got several of the 2TB variety WD Red drives and they show up and > work normally, as 2.0TB drives, so your having trouble with 3TB drives > is strange.
Also, did you flash LSI IT firmware into that Intel card? See: http://www.servethehome.com/flashing-intel-sasuc8i-lsi-firmware-guide/ Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
