Trying to get full capacity out of LaCie Biggest F800
2007-12-25 5:08:00
running Solaris 10 (I have also tried this using Solaris 9 with Patch
Cluster from July 5th and got exactly the same results).
I have the Lacie set for RAID0+1, which should yield ~800GB minus overhead (this
model has 4 x 400GB drives, and I have formatted it under, ahem, Windows XP Pro
out to 765GB).
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cfgadm sees the drive nicely:
# cfgadm -v usb0/3
Ap_Id Receptacle Occupant Condition Information
usb0/3 connected configured ok Mfg: LaCie Product: LaCie Biggest F800 NConfigs: 1 Co
nfig: 0 :
When Type Busy Phys_Id
unavailable usb-storage n /devices/pci at 8,700000/usb at 5,3:3
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Devices show up in /dev/dsk
# ls -l /dev/dsk/c3*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 55 Jul 6 19:50 /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s0 -> ..http://devices/pci at 8,700000/usb at 5,3/storage at 3/disk at 0,0:a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 55 Jul 6 19:50 /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s1 -> ..http://devices/pci at 8,700000/usb at 5,3/storage at 3/disk at 0,0:b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 55 Jul 6 19:50 /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s2 -> ..http://devices/pci at 8,700000/usb at 5,3/storage at 3/disk at 0,0:c
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 55 Jul 6 19:50 /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s3 -> ..http://devices/pci at 8,700000/usb at 5,3/storage at 3/disk at 0,0:d
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 55 Jul 6 19:50 /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s4 -> ..http://devices/pci at 8,700000/usb at 5,3/storage at 3/disk at 0,0:e
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 55 Jul 6 19:50 /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s5 -> ..http://devices/pci at 8,700000/usb at 5,3/storage at 3/disk at 0,0:f
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 55 Jul 6 19:50 /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s6 -> ..http://devices/pci at 8,700000/usb at 5,3/storage at 3/disk at 0,0:g
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 55 Jul 6 19:50 /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s7 -> ..http://devices/pci at 8,700000/usb at 5,3/storage at 3/disk at 0,0:h
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And I see good stuff in /var/adm/messages:
Jul 6 19:50:42 lacie1 usba: [ID 855233 kern.info] USB-device: storage at 3, scsa2usb0 at bus address 3
Jul 6 19:50:42 lacie1 usba: [ID 593373 kern.info] LaCie LaCie Biggest F800 19A00E000A461F9D
Jul 6 19:50:42 lacie1 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] scsa2usb0 is /pci at 8,700000/usb at 5,3/storage at 3
Jul 6 19:50:42 lacie1 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci at 8,700000/usb at 5,3/storage at 3 (scsa2usb0) online
Jul 6 19:50:42 lacie1 scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd30 at scsa2usb0: target 0 lun 0
Jul 6 19:50:42 lacie1 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd30 is /pci at 8,700000/usb at 5,3/storage at 3/disk at 0,0
Jul 6 19:50:42 lacie1 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci at 8,700000/usb at 5,3/storage at 3/disk at 0,0 (sd30) online
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If I try to use fmformat with a partition table of the size I want, it
slaps me down with:
# rmformat -b "sunos" -s /format.dat /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s2
Backup slice extends beyond size of media
media size : 509999490 sectors
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If I try to use newfs / mkfs, I get similar error msgs:
# mkfs -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2 1400000000 63 255 8192 8192 -1 1 3 1048576 t 0 0 8 1024 y
mkfs: bad value for size: 1400000000 must be between 1024 and 509999490
mkfs: size reset to default 509999490
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If anyone has information on how to get more than 250GB out of this device, I
would very much appreciate hearing about it, and of course I will summarize
any responses.
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