[OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on 2tb disk

[Toomas Soome]

> On 21. Nov 2023, at 20:24, Goetz T. Fischer <g.fischer at r-a-c.de> wrote:
> 
> hello again,
> 
> i just tried to install indiana onto a 2tb disk and the installer crashed. it claimed the disk had 64tb 
> and complained about the size. trying to use format from the shell resulted in a crash as well.
> then i tried omnios and with that the installation worked. however, after logging into the installed os, 
> zfs list reported a 61tb rpool and pkg crashed. so although the installer went through, it's apparently 
> not usable.
> 
> so what's the trick for using bigger disks as rpool?
> 
> thanks in advance as always!
> 

This sounds like firmware issue (either system or HBA or disk). My system is (old supermicro X10SAE):

tsoome at beastie:/code/16034$ zpool status
  pool: rpool
 state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0 days 10:16:24 with 0 errors on Fri May 19 19:42:12 2023
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        rpool       ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz1-0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c3t0d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c3t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c3t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c3t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors
tsoome at beastie:/code/16034$ sudo format
Password: 
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c3t0d0 <WDC-WD4004FZWX-00GBGB0-81.H0A81-3.64TB>
          /pci at 0,0/pci15d9,805 at 1f,2/disk at 0,0
       1. c3t1d0 <WDC-WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0-01.01A01-3.64TB>
          /pci at 0,0/pci15d9,805 at 1f,2/disk at 1,0
       2. c3t3d0 <HGST-HUS726T4TALA6L4-VLGNW984-3.64TB>
          /pci at 0,0/pci15d9,805 at 1f,2/disk at 3,0
       3. c3t4d0 <WDC-WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0-01.01A01-3.64TB>
          /pci at 0,0/pci15d9,805 at 1f,2/disk at 4,0
Specify disk (enter its number): ^D
tsoome at beastie:/code/16034$

rgds,
toomas