[OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade
Reginald Beardsley
pulaskite at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 16 15:54:48 UTC 2015
Sadly, I think it's more complicated, but that might be it. I had lots of fun w/ the sector size reporting. I went around and around w/ the Toshiba for days. This was in conjunction w/ getting an RMA from HGST which replaced a 512 sector drive w/ a 4k sector drive. I *did* get that to work w/ Sol 10_u8 , but it was a huge effort. I recall I fiddled w/ sd.conf a lot trying to get the Toshiba pool to align properly. I was on the verge of cutting the Toshiba enclosure open so I could attach to the SATA port when I figured out how to make it work.
It's entirely possible that I labeled the Toshiba on Linux and then created the zpool on 151a7. I know I labeled and formatted the disk on Linux several times and was very frustrated that it worked w/ Linux but not OI.
I find the blank partition table a bit disturbing. I was trying a lot of different things trying to find a way to make it work and making lots of noise on the list in the process. I might even have written something coherent. Not likely, but it might not hurt to search the list archives.
We got a solid sheet of 2-3" of sleet on the ground last night, so I'm not going anywhere. I'll see if I can find any other bread crumbs. Please suggest anything you'd like me to try, as long as it's not something that will wipe the drive ;-)
It used to be that my canonical test for admin experience was to mention modems. If they cringed, I knew they were experienced. Now I think I'd mention attaching a 6 TB disk.
Have Fun!
Reg
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On Mon, 2/16/15, Andrew Gabriel <illumos at cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade
To: "Reginald Beardsley" <pulaskite at yahoo.com>, "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
Date: Monday, February 16, 2015, 9:12 AM
Your drive is claiming to
be 4kB/sector, which would increase the max
drive size up to 16TB, if the 12 byte SCSI
command limitation applies
(which is just
my speculation).
So this
would indicate a work-a-round for the 2TB limit is to use a
drive which reports a real 4k sector
size.
Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
wrote:
> I got a 3 TB Toshiba Canvio USB
drive to format using 151a7 on an N40L.
>
> >From my notes:
>
> "The key to
formatting the 3 TB drive was to use "format -e",
supply LBA pseudo geometry and create an EFI label. NB
must run fdisk from within format"
>
> However, it's not
clear this was the USB drive rather than a bare 3 TB SATA
drive. I was battling several things and a few years later
it's not as clear as it seemed when I wrote it. I
vividly recall I had a lot of trouble getting it to work
properly, and considered just giving the drive to a friend
to use on his Mac.
>
>
But yes, it can be made to work. I use it to save
incrementals from my backup server.
>
> The following is w/
the drive imported to my 151a8 internet access host.
>
> # zpool get all
tosh_pool
> NAME
PROPERTY
VALUE SOURCE
> tosh_pool size
2.72T -
> tosh_pool capacity
49% -
> tosh_pool altroot
- default
> tosh_pool health
ONLINE -
> tosh_pool guid
556785976751203449 default
> tosh_pool version
- default
> tosh_pool bootfs
- default
> tosh_pool delegation
on
default
> tosh_pool
autoreplace off
default
> tosh_pool cachefile
- default
> tosh_pool failmode
wait
default
> tosh_pool
listsnapshots off
default
> tosh_pool autoexpand
off
default
> tosh_pool dedupditto
0
default
> tosh_pool dedupratio
1.00x -
> tosh_pool free
1.36T -
> tosh_pool allocated
1.36T -
>
tosh_pool readonly off
-
> tosh_pool
comment -
default
> tosh_pool expandsize
0
-
> tosh_pool freeing
0 default
> tosh_pool feature at async_destroy
enabled local
>
tosh_pool feature at empty_bpobj
enabled local
>
tosh_pool feature at lz4_compress disabled
local
>
>
> and:
>
> format> verify
>
> Volume name = <
>
> ascii name =
<Toshiba-External USB 3.0-3704-2.73TB>
> bytes/sector = 4096
> sectors = 732566645
>
accessible sectors = 732566640
> Part
Tag Flag First Sector
Size Last Sector
> 0 unassigned wm
0 0
0
> 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 unassigned wm
0 0
0
>
>
> Which looks wrong, so
I'm not sure what's going on. I had loads of fun
w/ the sector alignment. You should look at the ZFS
pages. Klimov and I tried to document some of this
stuff. George Wilson's writeup proved quite important,
so make sure you read that also.
>
> http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks
>
> I did this on the
N40L which is powered down at the moment, but there is
probably more info on that. The notes quoted above are
from my log book.
>
>
Reg
>
>
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> On Mon, 2/16/15, Andrew Gabriel <illumos at cucumber.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> Subject:
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L
Upgrade
> To: "Discussion list for
OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Monday, February 16, 2015, 5:20
AM
>
> Marion
Hakanson wrote:
> > Has anyone out
there actually got a drive > 2TB
>
working via USB on
> > an illumos
distribution? My attempts so far have
> failed (oi151a7, oi151a9,
> > and XStreamOS), with my 3TB drive
in a USB-SATA
> enclosure appearing
as
> > a 2TB drive. The same
drive/enclosure works
> perfectly when
attached
> > to MacOS-X via USB, and
the same drive/enclosure works
> fine
when attached
> > by its eSATA
connection to my illumos-based systems.
> >
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@lists.illumos.org.email.enqueue.archive.li
> > stbox.com/msg00499.html
> [2nd attempt - first vanished into a
black hole]
>
> I
had a quick look through scsa2usb.c (not that it's an
area
> I know),
>
and I can only see it using Group 5 (12 byte) SCSI
commands.
> This will
> limit the addressing to 2^32 blocks,
which is 2TB for a
> 512byte/sector
disk.
>
> So if
I'm right, this is a limitation of USB-connected
> drives on Illumos.
>
> --
> Andrew
>
>
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