SUMMARY: Bad disk determination

I received many emails saying that the drive was most likely dead.

It was also suggested that I run iostat -En (thanks Jim!), which gave
the following results:

iostat -En
c1t0d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 10 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST336607LSUN36G  Revision: 0307 Serial No:
3JA6EFP300007418
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 10 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c1t1d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST336607LSUN36G  Revision: 0307 Serial No:
3JA6EFCP00007418
Size: 36.42GB <36418595328 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c0t0d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 2 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: TEAC     Product: CD-224E          Revision: P.9A Serial No: [
Size: 18446744073.71GB <-1 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 2 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

Thanks to all who responded.

Regards,

Jared


On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 18:06, Jared Brick wrote:
> Managers,
> 
> I have a sun v120 with mirrored disks that after being rebooted did not
> come up. I believe that one disk had died without notice and since this
> was the boot disk it was only noticed then. The issue I'm having is that
> the disk is detectable but I am unable to format it. I have googled
> around but have been unable to find anything useful and would like to
> know if the disk is indeed dead or if I'm missing some other issue. Any
> responses would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advanced.
> 
>  format
> Searching for disks...done
>  
> 
> AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
>        0. c1t0d0 <drive type unknown>
>           /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8/sd@0,0
>        1. c1t1d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
>           /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8/sd@1,0
> Specify disk (enter its number): 0
>  
> 
> 
> AVAILABLE DRIVE TYPES:
>         0. Auto configure
>         1. Quantum ProDrive 80S
>         2. Quantum ProDrive 105S
>         3. CDC Wren IV 94171-344
>         4. SUN0104
>         5. SUN0207
>         6. SUN0327
>         7. SUN0340
>         8. SUN0424
>         9. SUN0535
>         10. SUN0669
>         11. SUN1.0G
>         12. SUN1.05
>         13. SUN1.3G
>         14. SUN2.1G
>         15. SUN2.9G
>         16. Zip 100
>         17. Zip 250
>         18. SUN36G
>         19. other
> Specify disk type (enter its number): 18
> selecting c1t0d0
> [disk unformatted]
>  
> 
> FORMAT MENU:
>         disk       - select a disk
>         type       - select (define) a disk type
>         partition  - select (define) a partition table
>         current    - describe the current disk
>         format     - format and analyze the disk
>         repair     - repair a defective sector
>         label      - write label to the disk
>         analyze    - surface analysis
>         defect     - defect list management
>         backup     - search for backup labels
>         verify     - read and display labels
>         save       - save new disk/partition definitions
>         inquiry    - show vendor, product and revision
>         volname    - set 8-character volume name
>         !<cmd>     - execute <cmd>, then return
>         quit
> format> inquiry
> Vendor:   SEAGATE
> Product:  ST336607LSUN36G
> Revision: 0307
> format> format
> Ready to format.  Formatting cannot be interrupted
> and takes 332 minutes (estimated). Continue? yes
> Beginning format. The current time is Wed Mar  2 22:57:22 2005
>  
> Reserve failed
> failed
> format>
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