Help needed for non-SUN-HDD (original Seagate) in V880

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Hello,

we have a hardware error on a 36GB HDD within a SunFire V880.
Disk seems to be really dead, cause changing the slot of the disk, moves the error along.
So we bought a similar, but original) Seagte-Disk (on ebay) and screwed it in the HDD-Cage.

Disk is now known in format, but is not accesible.

So we tried to format the disk
format -e
label
SMI
but this didn�t work.

We tried to correct (delete) the first sectors with
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/rdsk/c2t9d0s2
but this didn�t work

Finally we tried to "copy over" the partition table from the similar disk used under SVM
prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c2t9d0s2
but this didn�t work

Doas anyone know a solution to this problem?

Thanks in Advance, Stefan

2

In what way did they "not work"? Can you access the disk at the sector level or not at all?

3

I�m not sure at all,

but

  • we can see the disk under format, and
  • # prtvtoc dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c2t9d0s2
    failes with
    /dev/rdsk/c2t9d0s2: Cannot get disk geometry
4

Hi Stefan,
you can try to take the geometry from a working disk and give this to the new disk. work along to this instructions:
How to change a disk �type� in Solaris. | dotplan

hth,
DN2

5 
root@xxxxx # format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c1t0d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
          /pci@1f,700000/scsi@2/sd@0,0
       1. c1t1d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
          /pci@1f,700000/scsi@2/sd@1,0
       2. c1t2d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
          /pci@1f,700000/scsi@2/sd@2,0
       3. c1t3d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424>
          /pci@1f,700000/scsi@2/sd@3,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 2
selecting c1t2d0
[disk formatted]


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> type


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. Peerless 10GB
        19. SUN72G
        20. other
Specify disk type (enter its number)[19]:0

Select Auto configure ...

6

We will try both methods and i will send a reply.

Thanks in Advance, Stefan