[OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

Sun Jun 10 13:53:41 UTC 2012

Thanks for the info Jim,

The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H and has five SATA sockets, 
two IDE and one E-sata.

The SATA are, I believe, Intel.

I think I've got an i5 in it, with 4gig of RAM. I don't use compression 
or encryption.

There are two Intel SSDs in a ZFS mirror and I copied across the boot 
sector so in failure, the other will boot successfully.

The three others are used for the internal drives on a ZFS raid; a 
balance between number of drives in a redundancy/heat/power consumption 
sort of ratio. The drives are WD Green units which are reasonably power 
saving, but they do the control themselves as I didn't want to risk 
driver issues. They have turned out to be reasonable for the money (the 
existing 2tb's are WD Green and have served about 18 months with no 
issues) but with the price hikes it will be another two months before I 
am able to replace the whole set.

I have an external, "toaster" for two hard drives, so I wanted to get a 
second e-sata in there, so I bought a Rocket 62X RocketRAID 62X/62XM 
using the Marvel chipset, but unfortunately this turned out to be one 
that wasn't supported. So one external drive is on the Esata and the 
other is on the USB channel, but still working as a mirrored ZFS set for 
backup purposes. It's a shame as the USB link is doubling the backup time.

When the backup is finished tomorrow, I'll wipe the 3tb and see if it 
will take it again.

On 10/06/12 14:21, Jim Klimov wrote:
> BTW, can you give some more detail on the machine and its HDD
> controllers? There were recently discussions on zfs-discuss
> list about Dell-branded HBAs with Dell firmware bent on power
> saving, which sent the WD disks in particular to slep mode
> right away instead of having them work. There were published
> workarounds with Solaris driver configuration, so if the
> description roughly mathches - you can try and see that
> list's recent archives.
>
> 2012-06-10 13:35, michelle wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I'm not having much luck and if someone can help with solid suggestions
>> before I start poking around, it could save me stuffing up the machine.
>>
>> Firstly, I think that the graphics is having a problem with my TV, so if
>> someone can tell me how to stop the system from wanting to boot in to
>> the GUI, that would be a real help.
>>
>> Second, I'm replacing 2tb drives with 3tb drives.
>> I'm runnning...
>>
>>                        OpenIndiana Development oi_151a X86
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>> reserved.
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>>
>> I'm reluctant to upgrade because the system doesn't seem to be listening
>> to USB keyboards on the selection screen.
>>
>> On attaching the 3tb I get...
>>
>> Jun 10 10:08:07 jaguar genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] devinfo0 is
>> /pseudo/devinfo at 0
>> Jun 10 10:08:07 jaguar sata: [ID 801593 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci1458,b005 at 1f,2:
>> Jun 10 10:08:07 jaguar  SATA device detected at port 2
>> Jun 10 10:08:07 jaguar sata: [ID 663010 kern.info]
>> /pci at 0,0/pci1458,b005 at 1f,2 :
>> Jun 10 10:08:07 jaguar sata: [ID 761595 kern.info]      SATA disk device
>> at port 2
>> Jun 10 10:08:07 jaguar sata: [ID 846691 kern.info]      model WDC
>> WD30EZRX-00MMMB0
>> Jun 10 10:08:07 jaguar sata: [ID 693010 kern.info]      firmware 
>> 80.00A80
>> Jun 10 10:08:07 jaguar sata: [ID 163988 kern.info]      serial
>> number      WD-WMAWZ0278326
>> Jun 10 10:08:07 jaguar sata: [ID 594940 kern.info]      supported 
>> features:
>> Jun 10 10:08:07 jaguar sata: [ID 981177 kern.info]       48-bit LBA,
>> DMA, Native Command Queueing, SMART, SMART self-test
>> Jun 10 10:08:07 jaguar sata: [ID 643337 kern.info]      SATA Gen2
>> signaling speed (3.0Gbps)
>> Jun 10 10:08:07 jaguar sata: [ID 349649 kern.info]      Supported queue
>> depth 32
>> Jun 10 10:08:07 jaguar sata: [ID 349649 kern.info]      capacity =
>> 5860533168 sectors
>> Jun 10 10:08:35 jaguar scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3b4a at 1c,4/pci-ide at 0/ide at 0 (ata0):
>> Jun 10 10:08:35 jaguar  timeout: abort request, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 10 10:08:35 jaguar scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3b4a at 1c,4/pci-ide at 0/ide at 0 (ata0):
>> Jun 10 10:08:35 jaguar  timeout: abort device, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 10 10:08:35 jaguar scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3b4a at 1c,4/pci-ide at 0/ide at 0 (ata0):
>> Jun 10 10:08:35 jaguar  timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 10 10:08:35 jaguar scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3b4a at 1c,4/pci-ide at 0/ide at 0 (ata0):
>> Jun 10 10:08:35 jaguar  timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 10 10:08:58 jaguar scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3b4a at 1c,4/pci-ide at 0/ide at 0 (ata0):
>> Jun 10 10:08:58 jaguar  timeout: abort request, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 10 10:08:58 jaguar scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3b4a at 1c,4/pci-ide at 0/ide at 0 (ata0):
>> Jun 10 10:08:58 jaguar  timeout: abort device, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 10 10:08:58 jaguar scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3b4a at 1c,4/pci-ide at 0/ide at 0 (ata0):
>> Jun 10 10:08:58 jaguar  timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 10 10:08:58 jaguar scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3b4a at 1c,4/pci-ide at 0/ide at 0 (ata0):
>> Jun 10 10:08:58 jaguar  timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 10 10:09:58 jaguar scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3b4a at 1c,4/pci-ide at 0/ide at 0 (ata0):
>> Jun 10 10:09:58 jaguar  timeout: early timeout, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 10 10:09:58 jaguar genunix: [ID 859416 kern.info]
>> ghd_timer_newstate: HBA reset failed hba 0xffffff01ce0f3900 gcmdp 0x0
>> gtgtp 0xffffff01d0598100
>> Jun 10 10:10:58 jaguar scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3b4a at 1c,4/pci-ide at 0/ide at 0 (ata0):
>> Jun 10 10:10:58 jaguar  timeout: abort request, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 10 10:10:58 jaguar scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3b4a at 1c,4/pci-ide at 0/ide at 0 (ata0):
>> Jun 10 10:10:58 jaguar  timeout: abort device, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 10 10:10:58 jaguar scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3b4a at 1c,4/pci-ide at 0/ide at 0 (ata0):
>> Jun 10 10:10:58 jaguar  timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0
>> Jun 10 10:10:58 jaguar scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
>> /pci at 0,0/pci8086,3b4a at 1c,4/pci-ide at 0/ide at 0 (ata0):
>> Jun 10 10:10:58 jaguar  timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0
>>
>> I know the drive works as I've been testing it in another machine, but
>> the moment I plug it in, the system has problems.
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