Re: How to detect a defected disk?

My experience with Solaris is that when the disk driver get a bad disk, it begins to spew out a great deal of errors on the console regarding the particular disk that's having problems. I had it happen to me.

On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:16:10 +0100, Bence Toth <Bence.Toth_at_ubs.ch> 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
>
>Bence Toth
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>Union Bank of Switzerland / Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft
>email: bence.toth_at_ubs.ch
Received on Wed Mar 19 1997 - 00:00:00 CST