[OmniOS-discuss] Move rpool from IDE mode to AHCI ?

[Richard Elling]

Hi Svavar,

> On May 9, 2014, at 2:27 AM, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson <svavar at januar.is> wrote:
> 
> Hello List.
> 
> I recently installed and configured OmniOS on a HP Microserver N40L NAS box.
> 
> In time to time my box hangs/freezes for some seconds, when I try to SSH into the box or execute some SMART-INFO functions.
> And then it gives me access.
> 
> In my /var/adm/messages i have these messages :
> 
> May  8 20:10:41 blackbox scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 14,1/ide at 0 (ata0):
> May  8 20:10:41 blackbox        timeout: abort request, target=1 lun=0
> May  8 20:10:41 blackbox scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 14,1/ide at 0 (ata0):
> May  8 20:10:41 blackbox        timeout: abort device, target=1 lun=0
> May  8 20:10:41 blackbox scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 14,1/ide at 0 (ata0):
> May  8 20:10:41 blackbox        timeout: reset target, target=1 lun=0
> May  8 20:10:41 blackbox scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 14,1/ide at 0 (ata0):
> May  8 20:10:41 blackbox        timeout: reset bus, target=1 lun=0
> May  8 20:10:42 blackbox gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 14,1/ide at 0/cmdk at 1,0 (Disk0):
> May  8 20:10:42 blackbox        Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: Informational
> May  8 20:10:42 blackbox gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]   Sense Key: aborted command
> May  8 20:10:42 blackbox gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice]   Vendor 'Gen-ATA ' error code: 0x3
> 
> 
> My current configuration is the System(OmniOS) is installed onto a SATA disk located at port 5 on the Microserver.
> (yes i have the BIOS hacked which allows for SATA 3G/AHCI functions on the port other ports)
> Then I have 4x SATA disks configured in RAIDZ
> 
> I double checked my BIOS configuration, and it seems that I have misconfigured the OS disk into a IDE mode, but not AHCI.
> So when I change the mode to AHCI, I get the GRUB loader and the OmniOS logo after that, but suddenly the machines restarts again
> and never boots into the system all the way.
> 
> So my question is, is there any way for my to reconfigure my running-system to use AHCI instead of IDE,ATA mode ?
> 
> Is it enough to boot up a usb live system and issue a "zpool import -f rpool", and then finally "zpool export rpool" with a running BIOS-config as AHCI
> and then restart the computer and let it boot normally ?

Yes.

> I read somewhere that the import/export functions would update the device path, but I have no experience on this issue.

Yes, this is the fix.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks allot people.

Enjoy!

  -- richard

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Svavar O
> Reykjavik - Iceland
> 
>  
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