Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

[Garrett Moore]

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 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Garrett Moore <garrettmoore at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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*
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>> 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
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>> New:
>> Device Model:     WDC WD15EADS-00R6B0
>> Serial Number:    WD-WCAVY4770428
>> Firmware Version: 01.00A01
>> User Capacity:    1,500,300,828,160 bytes
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>> God damnit, Western Digital. What can I do now? It's such a small
>> difference, is there a way I can work around this?
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> 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.
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>> My other replacement
>> drive is the "00R6B0" drive model as well, with the slightly smaller
>> capacity.
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> Adam Vande More
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