Re: How to detect a defected disk?

From: Andrey Ryzhov <Andrey.Ryzhov_at_Japan.ML.COM>
Date: 1997/03/19
Message-ID: <332F4A3A.3914@Japan.ML.COM>#1/1

Bence Toth wrote:
>
> Hello,
> We have many disks per system (more than 20). When a disk falls out I should find the defected
> disk. When I run fsck or dmesg (Solaris report utility), they just hang.
>
> Could you describe a method (on UNIX or Oracle level) that I (as non-root, dba) can use to
> identify the defected disk as quick as possible? We have SOLARIS 2.5, but I would thank for a
> general solution useable on other platforms, as well.
>
> TIA
>

When Solaris notices a broken piece of hardware, it always puts a message into /var/adm/mesages (unless this file is on broken disk :-)

This message always contain "true" device name that you can trace by symbolic links in /dev/dsk

Regards,
Andrey Received on Wed Mar 19 1997 - 00:00:00 CST