On 01/26/2013 09:54 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > Having got the 3 TB disk working in the Solaris 10 system where it belongs, I > think I'll pass on doing battle w/ booting from disks > 2 TB. > > I've got a zpool on a 3 TB USB disk actually functioning w/ 151_a7 which is a > big improvement, but it complains about the alignment. I've been studying: > > http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks > > trying to find a way to fix that. I put what looked like the correct > incantations in sd.conf, but a reboot doesn't seem to have solved it. It > would be very helpful to know how closely the identifier string needs to be > to what format(1m) reports. As I read things, it should be the concatenation > of the Vendor & Product strings. I tried to copy it exactly, but have no clue > if it read it correctly or just silently ignored it. > > After modifying sd.conf and rebooting, mdb reports: > > un_sys_blocksize = 0x1000 > un_tgt_blocksize = 0x1000 > un_phy_blocksize = 0x200 > > for the USB disk. However prtvtoc reports 4096 bytes/sector as does "format > -> verify" > > Not sure where to from here.
Are you going to be using ZFS on those? If so, how does the ashift of a zpool created with them look like? # zdb <poolname> | grep ashift If it prints "ashift: 12", then you are good, zpool picked up the correct settings. Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
