make kernel ignore broken SATA disk

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 06:24:09PM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote:

> Am 12.04.2020 um 17:43 schrieb Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru>:
> > 
> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 04:37:06PM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> > 
> >> 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".
> >> 
> >> 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.
> > 
> > `zpool offline pool device` if you have enoght redundancy?
> 
> I do, but the command doesn't return. Instead, I'm getting loads of sata error message.

What you zpool configuration?