[OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

[Ian Collins]

Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> i think I've just got a problem because of machine age!
>
> if I can muster enough courage .... ok, well, being retired, what can
> harm me now?
> I have my sata controllers in that machine in ide mode... gaah..
<snip>
> Will I have to export/backup the entire thing to another disk, and
> reconfigure and import/recv/something back, or can I  just change the
> SATA mode and recreate the devices and dev trees from a live cd w/o
> loosing the rpool?

You should be able to export the pool, reconfigure the controller and 
then re-import the pool.

-- 
Ian.