Seems like it isn't using the right scsi commands to access the whole drive. This might indeed be a bug in the scsa2usb layer. Investigation needed.
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 9, 2014, at 8:07 PM, Marion Hakanson via illumos-discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > I'm trying out a 3TB SATA drive in one of those SATA-dock units > which plugs into either an eSATA port or a USB port. The drive > works as I'd expect when connected to my 64-bit oi151a7 machine > via eSATA, I can "zpool create", etc., normally, seeing the full > capacity of the drive. > > However, if I use USB, some problems show up. This particular unit > claims to support up to 4TB drives, and things like "fdisk", "rmformat -l", > and "format -e" show a label describing all 3TB. However, there are a > lot of these warnings in /var/adm/messages: > > Dec 9 14:50:18 myhost scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: > /pci@0,0/pci1028,2da@1d/hub@1/storage@4/disk@0,0 (sd13): > Dec 9 14:50:18 myhost Request rejected: too large for CDB: > lba:0x15d506110 len:0x00000010 > > I'm able to "zpool import" a pool via USB that was created via eSATA, > despite the above messages, and the pool ("zfs list", etc.) appears > to be the right size. But a "zdb -l" can only read the first two > labels from the drive when connected by USB, failing to read the > last two (and said failures correspond with new instances of the > above warnings appearing in /var/adm/messages). > > I should also mention that the same error messages occur when connected > by USB to a machine running XStreamOS Desktop beta-3, which is a much > fresher release of illumos than my old oi151a7 system. > > So, I'm curious if others have seen this with >2TB drives connected > by USB to illumos-based systems. It's possible that I've just got a bad > USB-to-SATA device here, and if so, I'd appreciate hearing of specific > devices that others have had success with in connecting these larger > drives via USB to illumos. > > Thanks and regards, > > Marion > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/22003744-9012f59c > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
