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

[Roel_D]

If i remember well this 2k sector problem has been discussed last week on this mailinglist. 

I am very interested in how do use these drives since i want to buy some as well.

Kind regards, 

The out-side

Op 28 sep. 2012 om 21:02 heeft Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com> het volgende geschreven:

> Is there a way to change the bytes per sector? When I Googled about my problem, I saw talk about 512 bps. When I look, I get:
> format> ver
> 
> Volume name = <        >
> ascii name  = <ST3000DM-001-9YN166-    -746.52GB>
> bytes/sector    =  512
> sectors = 1565565871
> accessible sectors = 1565565838
> Part      Tag    Flag     First Sector          Size Last Sector
>  0        usr    wm               256       746.51GB 1565549454
>  1 unassigned    wm                 0 0                0
>  2 unassigned    wm                 0 0                0
>  3 unassigned    wm                 0 0                0
>  4 unassigned    wm                 0 0                0
>  5 unassigned    wm                 0 0                0
>  6 unassigned    wm                 0 0                0
>  7 unassigned    wm                 0 0                0
>  8   reserved    wm        1565549455         8.00MB 1565565838
> 
> format>
> 
> If I changed this to 2KB/sector, it would give me 2986.04GB. How would I even do this?
> 
> Rainer
> On 9/28/2012 11:38 AM, Rainer Heilke wrote:
>> 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.
>>> 
>>> "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."
>>> 
>>> All I remember is I did it once.  Now I wish I'd been more verbose in my notes.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Hope this helps.
>>> 
>>> Reg
>>> 
>>> 
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