ZFS "zpool replace" problems

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Tue Jan 26 16:15:29 UTC 2010


Hi--

On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:03 AM, Gerrit Kühn wrote:
[ ... ]
> atapci4 at pci0:3:6:0:     class=0x010401 card=0x02409005 chip=0x02401095
> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'Silicon Image Inc (Was: CMD Technology
> Inc)' device     = 'SATA/Raid controller(2XSATA150) (SIL3112)'
>    class      = mass storage
>    subclass   = RAID
> 
> Meanwhile I took out the ad18 drive again and tried to use a different
> drive. But that was listed as "UNAVAIL" with corrupted data by zfs.

There's your problem-- the Silicon Image 3112/4 chips are remarkably buggy and exhibit data corruption:

  http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2005-08/0208.html

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck



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