On Mar 31, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> We ran into something similar with these drives in an X4170 that turned >> out to >> be an issue of the preconfigured logical volumes on the drives. Once >> we made >> sure all of our Sun PCI HBAs where running the exact same version of >> firmware >> and recreated the volumes on new drives arriving from Sun we got back >> into sync >> on the X25-E devices sizes. > > Can you elaborate? Just today, we got the replacement drive that has > precisely the right version of firmware and everything. Still, when we > plugged in that drive, and "create simple volume" in the storagetek raid > utility, the new drive is 0.001 Gb smaller than the old drive. I'm still > hosed. > > Are you saying I might benefit by sticking the SSD into some laptop, and > zero'ing the disk? And then attach to the sun server? > > Are you saying I might benefit by finding some other way to make the drive > available, instead of using the storagetek raid utility?
Assuming you are also using a PCI LSI HBA from Sun that is managed with a utility called /opt/StorMan/arcconf and reports itself as the amazingly informative model number "Sun STK RAID INT" what worked for me was to run, arcconf delete (to delete the pre-configured volume shipped on the drive) arcconf create (to create a new volume) What I observed was that arcconf getconfig 1 would show the same physical device size for our existing drives and new ones from Sun, but they reported a slightly different logical volume size. I am fairly sure that was due to the Sun factory creating the initial volume with a different version of the HBA controller firmware then we where using to create our own volumes. If I remember the sign correctly, the newer firmware creates larger logical volumes, and you really want to upgrade the firmware if you are going to be running multiple X25-E drives from the same controller. I hope that helps. -- Stuart Anderson ander...@ligo.caltech.edu http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
