Shell trick of the week
by
Kevin Hill
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last modified
Feb 07, 2012 04:54 PM
How to list disks in a Solaris system when format just hangs.
Today I had an old Solaris system have a disk fail and couldn't get 'format' to return, since it was trying to talk to the dead disk. Turns out the command
iostat -En
will provide info about all the installed drives, at least for Solaris 8...

