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Operating Systems Solaris Linux partitioned disk mounted on OSOL without formatting Post 302483218 by michnmi on Friday 24th of December 2010 11:49:18 AM

12-24-2010

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Linux partitioned disk mounted on OSOL without formatting

Hello and Merry Christmas...

Quick question after tireless search around the web.

Description:

I have a WD My book world edition II that met an untimely death. However the 2 SATA disks inside seem to be working just fine. Want to add either one of them to my Solaris Desktop.

Since I havent done anything like this before your help is much appreciated.

The disks are of 1TB capacity each and are formatted according to 'a' WDMWEII site in ext3 which would make sense given the overall product. So I'm supposing it IS ext3.
I am running a OSOL snv_134b system updated with Oracle's best and final wishes. I want to manually add the hard disk to my system and access it's contents without formatting it, hence losing them.

Any help would be much appreciated!!!

Code:

part of dmesg:
Dec 24 18:00:20 MainComputer gda: [ID 243001 kern.info] Disk1:    <Vendor 'Gen-ATA ' Product 'WDC WD10EADS-00L'>
Dec 24 18:00:20 MainComputer ata: [ID 496167 kern.info] cmdk1 at ata0 target 1 lun 0
Dec 24 18:00:20 MainComputer genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] cmdk1 is /pci@0,0/pci-ide@11/ide@0/cmdk@1,0
Dec 24 18:01:29 MainComputer pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: devinfo0
Dec 24 18:01:29 MainComputer genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] devinfo0 is /pseudo/devinfo@0
Dec 24 18:01:29 MainComputer rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] xsvc0 at root: space 0 offset 0
Dec 24 18:01:29 MainComputer genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] xsvc0 is /xsvc@0,0
Dec 24 18:01:31 MainComputer pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: nvidia255
Dec 24 18:01:31 MainComputer genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] nvidia255 is /pseudo/nvidia@255
Dec 24 18:01:40 MainComputer unix: [ID 954099 kern.info] NOTICE: IRQ16 is being shared by drivers with different interrupt levels.

Code:

Output of format and consecutive commands:
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c7d0 <DEFAULT cyl 9726 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
          /pci@0,0/pci-ide@11/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
       1. c7d1 <drive type unknown>
          /pci@0,0/pci-ide@11/ide@0/cmdk@1,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 1



AVAILABLE DRIVE TYPES:
        0. DEFAULT
        1. other
Specify disk type (enter its number): 0
selecting c7d1
No current partition list
No defect list found
[disk formatted, no defect list found]
No Solaris fdisk partition found.


FORMAT MENU:
        disk       - select a disk
[...]
        quit
format> p
WARNING - This disk may be in use by an application that has
      modified the fdisk table. Ensure that this disk is
      not currently in use before proceeding to use fdisk.
format>

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diskscan

diskscan(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      diskscan(1M)

NAME

       diskscan - perform surface analysis

SYNOPSIS

       diskscan [-W] [-n] [-y] raw_device

DESCRIPTION

       diskscan  is used by the system administrator to perform surface analysis on a portion of a hard disk. The disk portion may be a raw parti-
       tion or slice; it is identified using its raw device name. By default, the specified portion of the  disk  is  read  (non-destructive)  and
       errors  reported  on standard error. In addition, a progress report is printed on standard out. The list of bad blocks should be saved in a
       file and later fed into addbadsec(1M), which will remap them.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -n	Causes	diskscan to suppress linefeeds when printing progress information on standard out.

       -W	Causes diskscan to perform write and read surface analysis. This type of surface analysis is destructive  and  should  be  invoked
		with caution.

       -y	Causes	diskscan to suppress the warning regarding destruction of existing data that is issued when  -W is used.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       raw_device      The address of the disk drive (see FILES).

FILES

       The raw device should be /dev/rdsk/c?[t?]d?[ps]?. See disks(1M) for an explanation of SCSI and IDE device naming conventions.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |x86			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       addbadsec(1M), disks(1M), fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M), format(1M), attributes(5)

NOTES

       The  format(1M)	utility is available to format, label, analyze, and repair SCSI disks. This utility is included with the diskscan, addbad-
       sec(1M), fdisk(1M), and fmthard(1M) commands available for x86. To format an IDE disk, use the  DOS format utility; however, to label, ana-
       lyze, or repair IDE disks on x86 systems, use the Solaris format(1M) utility.

SunOS 5.10							    24 Feb 1998 						      diskscan(1M)