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Date:      Sun, 12 Apr 2020 11:44:58 -0700
From:      Chris <bsd-lists@BSDforge.com>
To:        Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: make kernel ignore broken SATA disk
Message-ID:  <07a08db448daa9dd32b187330666f852@udns.ultimatedns.net>
In-Reply-To: <A33629CA-63EC-45AA-AB06-09B003BBB0A6@lassitu.de>

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On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 16:37:06 +0200 Stefan Bethke stb@lassitu.de said

> I have a server I don't have physical access to right now, which has a broken
> SATA disk that produces mostly errors (but not entirely).
> 
> The disk has two partitions that are part of a zpool each. I can't bring the
> system up with this disk being online, because ZFS is trying its darndest to
> use it.
> 
> I already renamed the GPT partitions in the hope that ZFS would not find them
> anymore, but it does.
> 
> I can't gpart destroy -f ada1 because "device busy".
FTR it's gpart destroy -F (note the case difference) :-)

> 
> Is there a way, ideally in the loader, to tell the kernel to ignore ada1
> and/or ahcich5? Or can I force ZFS some other way to ignore the disk? I do
> have a spare disk I can use to replace the failed one, but I can't get the
> machine into a state where I could even issue the zpool replace command.
> 
> 
> Stefan
> 
--Chris




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