

ATA CHAPTER 33 HOW TO
How to Identify the Disks on a Systemīecome superuser or assume an equivalent role. The format utility, see Chapter 36, The format Utility (Reference). Utility to verify that a disk is known to the system. Use the format utility to discover the types of disks If necessary, fix a defective disk sector How to Identify a Defective Sector by Using Surface Analysis Identify a defective disk sector by using How to Automatically Configure a SCSI Drive Specific drive type is not listed in the /etc/format.dat With the SCSI-2 specification for disk device mode sense pages even if the You can automatically configure a SCSI disk Was damaged due to a system or power failure.Ĭreate a format.dat entry to support a third-party disk. You can attempt to recover a disk label that Use the formatĭisplay slice information by using the format utility.Ĭreate the disk label by using the format utility.Įxamine the disk label by using the prtvtoc command. In most cases, disks are already formatted. On a system, use the format utility to identify the disk If you are not sure of the types of disks With how disks are managed on systems running the Solaris release.įor information on the procedures associated with administering disks,įor overview information about disk management, see Chapter 32, Managing Disks (Overview). Procedures described in this chapter are optional if you are already familiar This chapter contains disk administration procedures.
