Sorry to shock everyone by asking an actual technical question instead of whinging about the next release, but... :)
1) I have a 4 drive USB array made up of 1T drives hooked up to osol_134 which no longer shows up after I removed an unused USB PCI card (the array was connected to the motherboard USB ports, not this card). I suspect that the controller numbers may have changed and is causing opensolaris to not find the device. Would touch /reconfigure and init 6 help? Is there an way to verify the list of devices that the USB controller sees? And is there a way to reactive the zpool for this array? (I imagine something like an import/deport like with vxvm is needed?) 2) Any recommendations for using osol_134 with wd advanced format 4K drives? I just bought a set of WD20EARS (2TB) but haven't yet installed them and was looking for recommendations - should I enable the jumper block 7-8 as it recommends for "windows xp" or leave it? >From what I read is that this shifts the partition table from sector 63 to sector 64, thus forcing the blocks to be aligned to 4K blocks as the drive natively intends. Is this correct or does it do anything else? (Hopefully I won't have to boot up in windows or DOS to reprogram the controllers on these drives.) What I've noticed with the USB array above is that the partition tables on those drives is EFI, and not MBR, so does the jumper block on the drives work properly with EFI partition tables, if not, is there some way to get osol to use the old MBR type partitions? _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
