Sadly, I think it's more complicated, but that might be it. I had lots of fun w/ the sector size reporting. I went around and around w/ the Toshiba for days. This was in conjunction w/ getting an RMA from HGST which replaced a 512 sector drive w/ a 4k sector drive. I *did* get that to work w/ Sol 10_u8 , but it was a huge effort. I recall I fiddled w/ sd.conf a lot trying to get the Toshiba pool to align properly. I was on the verge of cutting the Toshiba enclosure open so I could attach to the SATA port when I figured out how to make it work.
It's entirely possible that I labeled the Toshiba on Linux and then created the zpool on 151a7. I know I labeled and formatted the disk on Linux several times and was very frustrated that it worked w/ Linux but not OI. I find the blank partition table a bit disturbing. I was trying a lot of different things trying to find a way to make it work and making lots of noise on the list in the process. I might even have written something coherent. Not likely, but it might not hurt to search the list archives. We got a solid sheet of 2-3" of sleet on the ground last night, so I'm not going anywhere. I'll see if I can find any other bread crumbs. Please suggest anything you'd like me to try, as long as it's not something that will wipe the drive ;-) It used to be that my canonical test for admin experience was to mention modems. If they cringed, I knew they were experienced. Now I think I'd mention attaching a 6 TB disk. Have Fun! Reg -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 2/16/15, Andrew Gabriel <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade To: "Reginald Beardsley" <[email protected]>, "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 16, 2015, 9:12 AM Your drive is claiming to be 4kB/sector, which would increase the max drive size up to 16TB, if the 12 byte SCSI command limitation applies (which is just my speculation). So this would indicate a work-a-round for the 2TB limit is to use a drive which reports a real 4k sector size. Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > 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 > . > > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
