Hi Eugene I'm delighted to hear you got your files back! I've seen a few posts to this forum where people have done some change to the hardware, and then found that the ZFS pool have gone. And often you never hear any more from them, so you assume they could not recover it.
Thanks for reporting back your interesting story. I wonder how many other people have been caught out with this 'Host Protected Area' (HPA) and never worked out that this was the cause... Maybe one moral of this story is to make a note of your hard drive and partitions sizes now, while you have a working system. If your using Solaris, maybe try 'prtvtoc'. http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/prtvtoc-1m?a=view (Unless someone knows a better way?) Thanks Nigel Smith # prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0 * /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0 partition map * * Dimensions: * 512 bytes/sector * 1465149168 sectors * 1465149101 accessible sectors * * Flags: * 1: unmountable * 10: read-only * * Unallocated space: * First Sector Last * Sector Count Sector * 34 222 255 * * First Sector Last * Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory 0 4 00 256 1465132495 1465132750 8 11 00 1465132751 16384 1465149134 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
