[OpenIndiana-discuss] HELP!!! Re: My 151-a7 on a SuperMicro X7Bsi needs both rpool disks replaced. Please advise on how!

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi Hans

On 16.09.2016 11:58, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> zpool remove-ing, physically replacing, booting, formatting and zpool
> replace-ing the broken disk fails!
>
> I did
>
> # zpool remove rpool c1t1d0s0 ( This was the broken disk )
>
> halted the system,.
>
> Physically replaced the VERY old seagate barracuda 500GB with a Seagate
> ST2000... 2TB disk
>
> booted up, the disk configured and was visible, ran format, put in a
> partition 0 to cover the whole disk, and then did
>
> # zpool replace -f rpool c1t1d0s0
> cannot replace c1t1d0s0 with c1t1d0s0: devices have different sector
> alignment
>
> Is ths 512b sectors vs 4kb sectors??? Or what happened??
This looks to be pretty much the case.

You can use prtvtoc to check that.

See Manpage and this wiki entry for details: 
http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks

However as Nikolam mentioned, you have very old OI Installation.
Thus every functionality mentioned in Guides may have changed in the 
meantime. Or not be present in your Version of OI.

Your best bet is to update the server if you can. and see if this solves 
the Problem for you. If it does not, then the community can help 
debuging the Problem.

Greetings
Till