While moving a pair of ZFS disks from an *very* old motherboard to a new one, I ran into an odd problem I had not seen before. The box was running just fine RELENG_10 from FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #18 r279918 on 10yr old MB. Boots normally and expected speeds for old hardware/CPU. But on the new one, as soon as the |\-/|\ starts spinning, it looks like its 1/100th of the speed it should be. Unfortunately, we didnt have the luxury to wait for it to boot up all the way. We put the disks back in the old motherboard, did the RELENG_11 upgrade which included putting in the new boot blocks after zpool upgrade and then the disks booted just fine in the new box. We at first thought it was a hardware issue, but same behaviour on another new MB, new SATA cables etc etc.
Any idea what was going on behind the scenes that might have caused it ? Is there something about the way the old boot blocks would interact poorly with new motherboards (in this case, a SuperMicro X11SSH-F) ? ---Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"