Something worth noting, if you intend to purchase a card to expand via SATA drives, is that SATA controllers and OI smartctl don't get along yet (the interface for ATA commands isn't implemented, I think is the story), if you get a SAS/SAS2 controller, you can get smartctl to work with "-d sat" on SATA disks (SAS2 is far more likely to support 3TB and larger disks). I see LSI-based ones recommended for OI quite a bit on this list, but you want the HBA ones, not the RAID ones. They are more expensive than your average SATA card, though, and use a different cable.
I haven't the faintest idea what SATA cards work with OI/illumos. Tim On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Rainer Heilke <rhei...@dragonhearth.com>wrote: > Bingo! I unplugged one of my internal data drives (after removing it from > the ZFS mirror) and hooked up the 3TB drive. > > Went into the BIOS: 3TB > Went into format: 3TB > Did a zpool create, there is a new 2.72TB pool. > > Yippee! Thank you! > > Now I get to spend the next month moving drives and data around. :-( Too > bad OI can't use my new (and seemingly useless) Vantec SATA card. :-( > > Rainer > > > On 9/28/2012 12:32 PM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > >> Hi Rainer! >> >> >> This is a USB-attached drive >>> (in a SATA/USB enclosure) >>> >> Are you sure the controller chip in your SATA/USB enclosure can >> deal with more than 2TB of disk? >> >> All such enclosures I have either truncate at 2TB or worse, they wrap >> around. A disk with 3000GB (decimal) will give you just short of >> 2794GB (binary), and wrapped around 2TB will give you 746GB. >> >> So I am quite sure the controller chip in your enclosure is to blame. >> >> >> Regards -- Volker >> > > -- > Mind the Gap > Web: http://www.dragonhearth.com > Blog: http://chaos.dragonhearth.com > > ______________________________**_________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@**openindiana.org<OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org> > http://openindiana.org/**mailman/listinfo/openindiana-**discuss<http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss> > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss