Removing Drives with cfgadm

on October 30, 2007 in Solaris

Newer Sun kit has a feature where when you un-configure an internal drive for removal a blue light comes on indicating the device is ready for removal. This is quite useful when you are performing break fix to a remote location, so that the engineers know which drive to pull.

This works when removing tape drives as well as in the example below

bash-2.03# cfgadm -alv
p_Id                          Receptacle   Occupant     Condition  Information When         Type         Busy     Phys_Id c0                             connected    configured   unknown unavailable  scsi-bus     n        /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6:scsi c0::dsk/c0t6d0                 connected    configured   unknown    unavailable unavailable  CD-ROM       y        /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6:scsi::dsk/c0t6d0 c2                             connected    configured   unknown unavailable  scsi-bus     n        /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1:scsi c2::dsk/c2t0d0                 connected    configured   unknown    SEAGATE  ST336605LSUN36G unavailable  disk         n        /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1:scsi::dsk/c2t0d0 c2::dsk/c2t1d0                 connected    configured   unknown    SEAGATE  ST336605LSUN36G unavailable  disk         n        /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1:scsi::dsk/c2t1d0 c3                             connected    configured   unknown unavailable  scsi-bus     n        /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@3/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi c3::dsk/c3t0d0                 connected    configured   unknown    SEAGATE  ST336605LSUN36G unavailable  disk         n        /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@3/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::dsk/c3t0d0 c3::dsk/c3t1d0                 connected    configured   unknown    SEAGATE  ST336605LSUN36G unavailable  disk         n        /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@3/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::dsk/c3t1d0 c4                             connected    configured   unknown unavailable  scsi-bus     n        /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi c4::rmt/0                      connected    configured   unknown    QUANTUM  SuperDLT1 unavailable  tape         n        /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::rmt/0 c4::rmt/1                      connected    configured   unknown    QUANTUM  SuperDLT1 unavailable  tape         n        /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::rmt/1

bash-2.03# cfgadm -alv
Ap_Id                          Receptacle   Occupant     Condition  Information When         Type         Busy     Phys_Id c0                             connected    configured   unknown unavailable  scsi-bus     n        /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6:scsi c0::dsk/c0t6d0                 connected    configured   unknown    unavailable unavailable  CD-ROM       y        /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6:scsi::dsk/c0t6d0 c2                             connected    configured   unknown unavailable  scsi-bus     n        /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1:scsi c2::dsk/c2t0d0                 connected    configured   unknown    SEAGATE  ST336605LSUN36G unavailable  disk         n        /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1:scsi::dsk/c2t0d0 c2::dsk/c2t1d0                 connected    configured   unknown    SEAGATE  ST336605LSUN36G unavailable  disk         n        /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1:scsi::dsk/c2t1d0 c3                             connected    configured   unknown unavailable  scsi-bus     n        /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@3/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi c3::dsk/c3t0d0                 connected    configured   unknown    SEAGATE  ST336605LSUN36G unavailable  disk         n        /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@3/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::dsk/c3t0d0 c3::dsk/c3t1d0                 connected    configured   unknown    SEAGATE  ST336605LSUN36G unavailable  disk         n        /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@3/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::dsk/c3t1d0 c4                             connected    configured   unknown unavailable  scsi-bus     n        /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi c4::rmt/0                      connected    configured   unknown    QUANTUM  SuperDLT1 unavailable  tape         n        /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::rmt/0 c4::rmt/1                      connected    configured   unknown    QUANTUM  SuperDLT1 unavailable  tape         n        /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::rmt/1