[OpenIndiana-discuss] Defect zpool after replacing hard discs

[Thorsten Heit]

Hi,

> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013, thorsten.heit at vkb.de wrote:
> 
> > Because spare parts from HP are exorbitant expensive and come with 
only 6
> > months of warranty I thought I'd better buy three new and bigger discs 
to
> > replace the old 500GB ones, and ended up buying 3x WD1003FBYX from 
Western
> > Digital (enterprise discs, 1TB) that come with 5 years warranty.
> 
> HP SmartArray expects the drives to have HP firmware. The SmartArray 
> controller sends proprietary instructions (surface scan, HW status 
> query, etc.) to the drives sometimes, which are not understood by 
> regular off-the-shelf disks.

You're kidding, don't you?

Is there an option to turn off this behaviour so that non-HP drives can be 
used?


> If you don't want to purchase HP drives then you also have to replace 
> SmartArray with a generic SAS (or SATA) controller.

Hm ok, bad. But thanks.


Greetings

Thorsten