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# 15  
Old 11-26-2010
can you post the output from "format" after boot from dvd?
# 16  
Old 11-26-2010
1- i booted from dvd in single user shell
here is the output
Code:
Single user shell.
Searching for OS instances ...
No installed OS instance found.
Starting shell.

#echo|format
 Searching for disks ... done
 AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
 0. c0d0 < drive type unknown >
     /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
 Specify disk ( enter its number ) :  
#

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I tried achenle command snippet
Code:
#dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 of=/dev/null bs=1024k
dd: /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 : open : No such device or address

but i'm sure the disk is not dead
# 17  
Old 11-26-2010
Code:
  /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0

This appears to be primary IDE disk on X86/x64 platform.

What do you get if you invoke the format utility,enter 0 when asked the specify the disk, and select the fdisk option (which should list the disk partitions)?
# 18  
Old 11-27-2010
this c0d0 < drive type unknown > indicates that the drive has serious problems... i would also have a look at the fdisk output...
# 19  
Old 11-27-2010
@fpmurphy
When i enter 0 it asks me several questions regarding the disk geometry like num of clyinders , num of heads , num of sectors and so on
but i didn't supply any parameters to format , i cannot invoke fdisk from within format utility .

@DukeNuke2
What switches and arguments should i pass to fdisk to get output
# 20  
Old 11-27-2010
just post the output of
Code:
# fdisk c0d0p0

# 21  
Old 11-27-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by h@foorsa.biz
...

I tried achenle command snippet
Code:
#dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 of=/dev/null bs=1024k
dd: /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 : open : No such device or address

but i'm sure the disk is not dead
Try /dev/rdsk/c0d0p0, or ...p1, ...p2, ...p4.

Getting "drive type unknown" on the output of format is pretty bad news. That disk is pinin' for the fjords...
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