Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2013-01-20 13:57, 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> > > As a couple more wild guesses: > > 1) How does (the HBA's) BIOS recognize them? Does it confirm that > the disks are 3Tb and not mis-marked on paper label? ;)
Now that I looked more closely at the boot (BIOS) messages, I have noticed that the controller lists these disks as having a capacity of 2047 GB. Also a (too late) search in the internet revealed that 2TB is the limit of this controller. > 2) Is it possible that for some reason these disks use an MBR > partitioning table instead of GPT? The former would max out at 2Tb. They were and are not partitioned. I took them out of their boxes, connected them to the controller, started OI and created the pool using entire disks. And, to reply to Sašo Kiselkov: ashift is 9, these disk lie about their native sector size. So my pool will never be as fast as it could. And I used the Intel controller without reflashing anything, because it supports JBOD mode out of the box, which was all that I wanted. Ulrich _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
