[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

It probably won't help much. Any SATA controller should recognize the 4TB drives, and the problem with the drives lying about sector sizes won't be any better whatever controller you use.

roy

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> maybe this might help:
> http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/products/controllers/hardware/sas/entry/asc-1045/
> it is recognized on a n40l and it is supported by the si3124 driver
> 
> On 04/28/2012 09:54 AM, andy thomas wrote:
> > For some time now I've successfully been using ZFS RAIDz pools made
> > up of 3 x 1
> > TB or 3 x 2 TB Western Digital Caviar Black disks in a HP
> > MicroServer N36L
> > running OI 148 or 151. I'm now thinking of using the newer HP N40L
> > microserver
> > with 3 x 4 TB disks (Hitachi DeskStart 7K4000) which have 4096 byte
> > sectors. Can
> > anyone foresee a problem with this?
> >
> > I plan to set up several of these storage servers in mirrored pairs
> > so I want to
> > make sure this will work before ordering anything.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any comments or advice,
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Andy Thomas,
> > Time Domain Systems
> >
> > Tel: +44 (0)7866 556626
> > Fax: +44 (0)20 8372 2582
> > http://www.time-domain.co.uk
> 
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