151a8 is rather old - could you try booting a "hipster" disc and seeing if format -e still crashes, because otherwise we might find out this is a bug that's been fixed in the interim.
- Rich On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Reginald Beardsley via illumos-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > > -------------------------------------------- > On Mon, 3/7/16, Dale Ghent <[email protected]> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [discuss] Fault manager issue? > To: [email protected], "Reginald Beardsley" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, March 7, 2016, 10:23 PM > > > > > On Mar 7, 2016, at 6:35 PM, Reginald Beardsley via > illumos-discuss <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > "iostat -E" tells me I have 6 > SATA devices connected. 5 HD and a DVD. > > > > > "rmformat -l" and "cdrw > -l" fail to find any CD/DVD devices. > > > > "format > -e" crashes when a new 3 TB Seagate drive is > selected. I expected this with S10_u8, but I also am > encountering it with oi151_a8 booted into the LiveDVD > environment. Selecting the Hitachi 3 TB disk currently > installed I can verify the label on it. > > format crashing is unexpected > and should not happen... does it create a core file you can > put somewhere to share? > > /dale > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The core file is 1.7 MB gzipped. Does anyone want me to mail it to them? > I don't have an ftp server I can stick it on. This one was done using the > LiveDVD. I can do an install on a spare hard drive if anyone thinks that > might make a difference. There is the possibility that an sd.conf entry > would solve the problem on OI. > > NB I formatted the 3 TB Hitachi drive on OI, so I don't understand why it > fails on the 3 TB Seagate. However, that was a protracted ordeal. The > original drive was a 512 sector unit, but the RMA replacement was a 4k > sector unit that reported 512. But as I recall I didn't have any issues > labeling the drive using OI. > > Curiously after my various fiddles and reboots, I can now see all the HDs > and the DVD. > > Reg > ------------------------------------------- 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
