[OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I swiych from IDE to AHCI mode for my SATA disks, please vet my procedure!

[Hans J. Albertsson]

BTW, this should go into an OI wiki entry. I could do it, but I wouldn't 
be able say anything intelligent about it. Not on me own, anyways.

There should be a bit about what the commands do, too, written for the 
intelligent but utterly uninitiated.




On 2013-03-19 11:53, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> Thanks: worked like a charm doing
>
> zpool import -R /mnt -N -f rpool
>
> and then
>
> zpool export rpool
>
> At last I'll be able to do something with those 512e disks.
>
> Only problems were that my KVM unit is horribly slow and especially 
> the virtual image bits.
>
>
> On 2013-03-19 01:30, Jim Klimov wrote:
>> On 2013-03-18 19:51, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>>> I'm unclear about some of your answers.. interfoliating my questions.
>>>
>>> But, can I interpret your answer to overall be that one should not have
>>> to do more than:
>>>
>>> set BIOS to AHCI mode for the SATA controllers
>>> boot liveDVD
>>> as superuser (sudo su in a live dvd terminal)
>>>      "zpool import -f rpool"
>>>      "zpool export rpool"
>>> reboot
>>>
>>> for any reasonably recent Intel based server motherboard (mine is a
>>> Supermicro X7SBi)?
>>
>>
>> Yes, I guess so. I reviewed a number of threads I took part in on the
>> ZFS mailing lists, one reasonable (aggregated) suggestion was to do
>>
>> zpool import -R /mnt -f -N rpool
>>
>> -R allows to skip use of zpool.cache and have no conflicts with
>> existing (live) OS
>> -N allows to not mount and share FSes which can take long and you
>> don't need in this case anyway
>> -f you know - the force...
>>
>> PS: This should work for AMD-based motherboards, too ;)
>>
>> //Jim
>>
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