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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:28:16 -0400
From:      Garrett Moore <garrettmoore@gmail.com>
To:        Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, John Hawkes-Reed <hirez@libeljournal.com>
Subject:   Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool
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Well thank you very much Western Digital for your absolutely pathetic RMA
service sending me an inferior drive. I'll call tomorrow and see what can be
done; I'm going to insist on these 00R6B0 drives being sent back, and being
given a drive of >= 1,500,301,910,016 bytes capacity.

At least now I learned how to hotswap :/


On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Garrett Moore <garrettmoore@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Well, hotswapping worked, but now I have a totally different problem. Just
>> for reference:
>> # zpool offline tank da3
>> # camcontrol stop da3
>> <swap drive>
>> # camcontrol rescan all
>> <'da3 lost device, removing device entry'>
>> # camcontrol rescan all
>> <'da3 at mpt0 ...', so new drive was found! yay>
>> # zpool replace tank da3
>> *cannot replace da3 with da3: device is too small*
>>
>> So I looked at the smartctl output for the old and new drive. Old:
>> Device Model:     WDC WD15EADS-00P8B0
>> Serial Number:    WD-WMAVU0087717
>> Firmware Version: 01.00A01
>> User Capacity:    1,500,301,910,016 bytes
>>
>> New:
>> Device Model:     WDC WD15EADS-00R6B0
>> Serial Number:    WD-WCAVY4770428
>> Firmware Version: 01.00A01
>> User Capacity:    1,500,300,828,160 bytes
>>
>> God damnit, Western Digital. What can I do now? It's such a small
>> difference, is there a way I can work around this?
>
>
> Uff da, I'm pretty sure the answer is no, you would have had to use the
> smallest device first when creating the pool I think.
>
>
>> My other replacement
>> drive is the "00R6B0" drive model as well, with the slightly smaller
>> capacity.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Adam Vande More
>



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