I got a 3 TB Toshiba Canvio USB drive to format using 151a7 on an N40L.
>From my notes: "The key to formatting the 3 TB drive was to use "format -e", supply LBA pseudo geometry and create an EFI label. NB must run fdisk from within format" However, it's not clear this was the USB drive rather than a bare 3 TB SATA drive. I was battling several things and a few years later it's not as clear as it seemed when I wrote it. I vividly recall I had a lot of trouble getting it to work properly, and considered just giving the drive to a friend to use on his Mac. But yes, it can be made to work. I use it to save incrementals from my backup server. The following is w/ the drive imported to my 151a8 internet access host. # zpool get all tosh_pool NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE tosh_pool size 2.72T - tosh_pool capacity 49% - tosh_pool altroot - default tosh_pool health ONLINE - tosh_pool guid 556785976751203449 default tosh_pool version - default tosh_pool bootfs - default tosh_pool delegation on default tosh_pool autoreplace off default tosh_pool cachefile - default tosh_pool failmode wait default tosh_pool listsnapshots off default tosh_pool autoexpand off default tosh_pool dedupditto 0 default tosh_pool dedupratio 1.00x - tosh_pool free 1.36T - tosh_pool allocated 1.36T - tosh_pool readonly off - tosh_pool comment - default tosh_pool expandsize 0 - tosh_pool freeing 0 default tosh_pool feature@async_destroy enabled local tosh_pool feature@empty_bpobj enabled local tosh_pool feature@lz4_compress disabled local and: format> verify Volume name = < > ascii name = <Toshiba-External USB 3.0-3704-2.73TB> bytes/sector = 4096 sectors = 732566645 accessible sectors = 732566640 Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector 0 unassigned wm 0 0 0 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 unassigned wm 0 0 0 Which looks wrong, so I'm not sure what's going on. I had loads of fun w/ the sector alignment. You should look at the ZFS pages. Klimov and I tried to document some of this stuff. George Wilson's writeup proved quite important, so make sure you read that also. http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks I did this on the N40L which is powered down at the moment, but there is probably more info on that. The notes quoted above are from my log book. Reg -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 2/16/15, Andrew Gabriel <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 16, 2015, 5:20 AM Marion Hakanson wrote: > Has anyone out there actually got a drive > 2TB working via USB on > an illumos distribution? My attempts so far have failed (oi151a7, oi151a9, > and XStreamOS), with my 3TB drive in a USB-SATA enclosure appearing as > a 2TB drive. The same drive/enclosure works perfectly when attached > to MacOS-X via USB, and the same drive/enclosure works fine when attached > by its eSATA connection to my illumos-based systems. > > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > stbox.com/msg00499.html [2nd attempt - first vanished into a black hole] I had a quick look through scsa2usb.c (not that it's an area I know), and I can only see it using Group 5 (12 byte) SCSI commands. This will limit the addressing to 2^32 blocks, which is 2TB for a 512byte/sector disk. So if I'm right, this is a limitation of USB-connected drives on Illumos. -- Andrew _______________________________________________ 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
