Hi Folks, Situation :- x86 based solaris 11 express server with 2 pools (rpool / data) got fried. I need to recover the raidz pool "data" which consists of 5 x 1tb sata drives. Have individually checked disks with seagate diag tool, they are all physically ok.
Issue :- new sandybridge based x86 machine purchased, attempted to rebuild with solaris 11 express but the onboard sata controllers can not be recognised by the o/s.... no disks found. Assumption - sol11exp does not have drivers yet for the sata controllers on the new motherboard. Solution needed that allows me to build a functional NAS on the new hardware which will allow me to reconstitute and read the raidz zpool "data". Any thoughts? My latest thoughts are 1) to try freebsd as an alternative o/s hoping it has more recently updated drivers to support the sata controllers. According to the zfs wiki, freebsd 8.2 supports zpool version 28. I have a concern that when i updated the old (fried) server to sol11exp it upgraded the zpool version to 31 and so freebsd8.2 still may not be able to read the zpool on the raidz1 2) install windoze to get full hardware support (the drivers that came with the motherboard are windows only) and run sol11exp in a virtualbox environment which has full access to the raidz disks. Not sure if this is possible, but maybe worth a try. Any help / suggestions to recover my data would be appreciated. Regards Rep -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
