but
- we can see the disk under format, and
- # prtvtoc dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c2t9d0s2
failes with
/dev/rdsk/c2t9d0s2: Cannot get disk...
we have a hardware error on a 36GB HDD within a SunFire V880.
Disk seems to be really dead, cause changing the slot of the disk, moves the error along.
So we bought a similar, but...