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Operating Systems Solaris Detecting Harddrive Errors Post 302213173 by sunsysadm2003 on Wednesday 9th of July 2008 11:24:04 AM

07-09-2008

sunsysadm2003

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Detecting Harddrive Errors

I am looking for some tips or suggestions in how to do the following.

1) From a Solaris server, I run the command iostat -En and receive output that is similiar to the following which shows your disks along with the cdrom/dvdrom:

c0t2d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Model: Maxtor 6E040L0 Revision: NAR61590 Serial No: E1FECWNE
Size: 41.11GB <41110142976 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0
c0t0d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Model: WDC WD200BB-75DE Revision: 05.03E05 Serial No: WD-WMAFD1500835
Size: 20.00GB <20000000000 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0
c0t1d0 Soft Errors: 2 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 1
Vendor: PIONEER Product: 12X DVD-ROM Revision: 1.16 Serial No:
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 2 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

2) My question is this, how can I parse out the DVD-ROM drive and then with the two internal disks, I want to check the: "Soft Errors", "Hard Errors" and "Transport Error" fields for any number other than zero which would indicate a need for a fsck of the drive, drive replacement, etc.

3) If possible, I would also want to add the funtionality of excluding any SAN attached storage which may or may not be present as I am not concerned with the SAN drives.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

sunsysadm2003

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create_sysfile

create_sysfile(1M)														create_sysfile(1M)

NAME

       create_sysfile - create a kernel system file

SYNOPSIS

       [outfile]

DESCRIPTION

       The command creates a kernel configuration description file (system file) which can be used as input to the commands kconfig(1M) or mk_ker-
       nel(1M).  The system file that is generated is of type version 1 (see system(4)) and is built according to the drivers required by the cur-
       rent system hardware.  This command is intended for use during the install process when the system does not have a system file.

       The  command uses the ioscan(1M) command to scan the system hardware and adds all drivers it can identify to run the existing hardware.	If
       outfile is specified, the resulting system file is sent to outfile.  If outfile is not specified, the output is placed in the file

RETURN VALUE

       Upon completion, returns with one of the following exit values:

	      0      Successful.

	      1      One or more errors were reported.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Errors are sent to stderr.  Most of the diagnostic messages from are self-explanatory.  Errors cause to halt immediately.

WARNINGS

       is obsolete and will be removed in a future version of HP-UX.

AUTHOR

       was developed by HP.

SEE ALSO

       ioscan(1M), kconfig(1M), mk_kernel(1M), system(4), kconfig(5).

																create_sysfile(1M)

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