Comments on: Locating physical disk drives in Solaris http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2010/07/13/locating-physical-disk-drives-in-solaris/ Blog O' Matty Fri, 04 May 2012 19:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Antony Brooke-Wood http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2010/07/13/locating-physical-disk-drives-in-solaris/comment-page-1/#comment-831179 Antony Brooke-Wood Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:43:58 +0000 http://prefetch.net/blog/?p=3742#comment-831179 Does anyone know how to get cfgadm to show everything? It seems truncated for me (shows no disks at all; only USB devices). Also, iostat -En reports both of my drives as having the same serial number! 9d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Model: WDC WD20EADS-00 Revision: Serial No: WD-WCAVY01 Size: 2000.37GB Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request: 0 c10d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Model: WDC WD20EADS-00 Revision: Serial No: WD-WCAVY01 Size: 2000.37GB Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request: 0 Does anyone know how to get cfgadm to show everything? It seems truncated for me (shows no disks at all; only USB devices).

Also, iostat -En reports both of my drives as having the same serial number!

9d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Model: WDC WD20EADS-00 Revision: Serial No: WD-WCAVY01 Size: 2000.37GB
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0

c10d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Model: WDC WD20EADS-00 Revision: Serial No: WD-WCAVY01 Size: 2000.37GB
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0

]]> By: Nathan http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2010/07/13/locating-physical-disk-drives-in-solaris/comment-page-1/#comment-831040 Nathan Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:50:03 +0000 http://prefetch.net/blog/?p=3742#comment-831040 cfgadm -alv doesn't show all drives. I have 24 drives and that command shows 6 of them. iostat -En shows all 24 cfgadm -alv doesn’t show all drives. I have 24 drives and that command shows 6 of them.
iostat -En shows all 24

]]> By: dlethe http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2010/07/13/locating-physical-disk-drives-in-solaris/comment-page-1/#comment-829897 dlethe Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:29:53 +0000 http://prefetch.net/blog/?p=3742#comment-829897 If you want a commercial product there is a product at http://www.santools.com/smartmonux that has a great deal of diags, PLUS, it will automatically make the disks in SES-compliant enclosures reflect the status of the disks and pools as seen by zfs. I.e, fault light goes on if zfs kills a disk, and drives blink in the pool while it is scrubbing, as example If you want a commercial product there is a product at http://www.santools.com/smartmonux that has a great deal of diags, PLUS, it will automatically make the disks in SES-compliant enclosures reflect the status of the disks and pools as seen by zfs. I.e, fault light goes on if zfs kills a disk, and drives blink in the pool while it is scrubbing, as example

]]> By: troy http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2010/07/13/locating-physical-disk-drives-in-solaris/comment-page-1/#comment-829669 troy Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:11:28 +0000 http://prefetch.net/blog/?p=3742#comment-829669 First, absolutely great blog. For Solaris running on Sun hardware, you can also check out the sunsolve doc "Solaris [TM] Operating System: Matrix of Recognized Device Paths', article ID 1005907.1" The doc breaks down the paths of devices under /devices to identify the physical entity for both sparc and x86 hardware. If it can be of use to anyone, I've written a utility (ioDev) to specifically decode said device paths for quite a few of the server models listed in the above doc. It is available at "http://troysunix.blogspot.com/p/tools.html#ioDev" First, absolutely great blog. For Solaris running on Sun hardware, you can also check out the sunsolve doc “Solaris [TM] Operating System: Matrix of Recognized Device Paths’, article ID 1005907.1″ The doc breaks down the paths of devices under /devices to identify the physical entity for both sparc and x86 hardware. If it can be of use to anyone, I’ve written a utility (ioDev) to specifically decode said device paths for quite a few of the server models listed in the above doc. It is available at “http://troysunix.blogspot.com/p/tools.html#ioDev”

]]> By: MarkG http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2010/07/13/locating-physical-disk-drives-in-solaris/comment-page-1/#comment-829440 MarkG Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:18:44 +0000 http://prefetch.net/blog/?p=3742#comment-829440 I usually use iostat -En I usually use iostat -En

]]> By: Steve http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2010/07/13/locating-physical-disk-drives-in-solaris/comment-page-1/#comment-829439 Steve Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:45:47 +0000 http://prefetch.net/blog/?p=3742#comment-829439 There's another way. Kick off a dd if=/dev/dsk/cXtXdXs2 of=/dev/null bs=10240 and look for the activity light that's furiously flashing away. There’s another way. Kick off a dd if=/dev/dsk/cXtXdXs2 of=/dev/null bs=10240 and look for the activity light that’s furiously flashing away.

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