yeah that's what I was thinking until I booted of the ZFS Guru DVD and it wouldn't let me do anything until a DHCP address was received - come to think of it, my ports are tagged on the switch so i'll untag and try again.
Update:
Ran ZFSGuru and created a Ashift=12 pool and exported. Imported...
nope, unfortunately no luck with that either.
this is f$%#@!, I can't believe it will not work.
Does anyone else have an idea why i can't ashift=12 these WD drives on any illumos based OS?
definitely doing it via root, have tried all sorts of padding combos / reboot -p / shutdown etc.
The sd-config-list line is definitely at the bottom as well.
I'm also OI 151a7 on top of ESXi 5.1 with my LSI card in pass through.
Strange thing is, the first time I did this in Solaris...
thanks for your help mate - definitely have a semi colon (just forgot it in my example).
have used multiple lines in different formats, the last one ending with a ; and the previous with a ,.
I am just in the middle of rebuilding the machine: ESXi 5.1 / OI151a7 (enabled passthrough on my...
Hi Guys,
I'm having a strange issue trying to force ashift=12.
LSI 1068E SAS in passthrough mode on ESXi 5.1 - 6 x 2TB - "ATA WDC WD20EARS-22M"
My first install to local datastore (250gb HDD) was Solaris Express 11.1. Managed to get ASHIFT=12 working on this once I added the correct...