[OpenIndiana-discuss] Seagate 3000GB Drive only shows 746GB

[Rainer Heilke]

I wish you'd been more verbose too. ;-) Maybe it will let me "modify" 
the table...

Rainer
On 9/28/2012 5:54 AM, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
>  From my notes configuring a 3 TB Hitachi in June 2011 on Sol 10 u8.
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> "After considerable fubar, the key to formatting the 3 TB disk was to use, 'format -e', supply LBA pseudo geometry & create an EFI label.  NB Must run fdisk from inside format."
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> All I remember is I did it once.  Now I wish I'd been more verbose in my notes.
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> The Hitachi is pulled for RMA. As I recall the BIOS reported it as 887 GB. ZFS saw the entire drive, though it's really only 2.79 TB.  But it worked just fine until it starting failing.
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> Hope this helps.
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> Reg
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