[OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool and HDD problems

[Rainer Heilke]

The BIOS doesn't seem to have options to change the disk mode; neither 
does the LSI controller.

Rainer

On 04/10/2015 5:36 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 03:27:38PM -0700, Rainer Heilke wrote:
>> Greetings.
>> I've recently had three hard drives fail in my server. One was the
>> OS disk, so I just reinstalled. The other two, however, were each
>> one-half of zpool mirrors. They are the problem disks.
>
> That's very unusual for three disks to fail at the same time.
> Maybe something else happened.
>
>> Both have been replaced, but now I cannot seem to work with them. In
>> format -e, they are giving errors, specifically:
>
> The short disk addresses, like c?d?, suggest that the disk controller
> is in IDE mode.  Was it in AHCI mode before?  That would produce
> longer disk addresses, like c?t?d?.  The mode change could well be
> responsible for the symptoms you report.
>

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