Use of prtdiag to give information of sectors,cylinders,track of each disk
Hi All,
i am trying to get sectors,cylinders,track..etc information of all present disks out of solaris machine using prtvtoc command .
Output of ptrvtoc command is as below :
This is manual way of getting this information where i have to manually put name of the disk .
Can someone help me in automatically perform this task for all teh disk present on anu solaris machine.also i want to have only the 'Dimensions' part not rest.
Hi all,
I have a EFI disk and it is use in zfs pool.
partition> p
Volume: rpool
Current partition table (original):
Total disk sectors available: 1172107117 + 16384 (reserved sectors)
Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector
0 usr wm ... (8 Replies)
i'm writing some code to simulate the boot progress after power on
but when i try to read the 2nd sector from a floppy disk, this operation always fail with ah=0x80h which means timeout, how can i get over this problem?
my code would be like this:
$ cat boot.S
.code16
#define SETUPLEN 4... (0 Replies)
i'm writing some code to simulate the boot progress after power on
but when i try to read the 2nd sector from a floppy disk, this operation always fail with ah=0x80h which means timeout, how can i get over this problem?
my code would be like this:
$ cat boot.S
.code16
#define SETUPLEN 4... (0 Replies)
i'm writing some code to simulate the boot progress after power on
but when i try to read the 2nd sector from a floppy disk, this operation always fail with ah=0x80h which means timeout, how can i get over this problem?
my code would be like this:
$ cat boot.S
.code16
#define SETUPLEN 4... (0 Replies)
when I try to enter the value 424 for "data sectors/track" in format menu, it returns this error:
`424' is out of range.
is that hard drive parameter important? what to enter?
thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm kind of new to programming in Linux & c/c++. I'm currently writing a FileManager using Ubuntu Linux(10.10) for Learning Purposes. I've got started on this project by creating a loopback device to be used as my virtual hard disk. After creating the loop back hard disk and mounting it... (23 Replies)
I found a document: Bad block HOWTO for smartmontools
My hard drive is Maxtor:
root]# fdisk -lu /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders, total 160086528 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3f4e3f4d
... (0 Replies)
I recently installed two new hard drives onto an OpenSolaris v5.11 machine. I need to format the two disks.
I tried the format command. It asks me for the number of data cylinders and alternate cylinders.... <see below>
admin@minime-28:/dev/rdsk# format
Searching for disks...done
... (9 Replies)
Is there a way to determine the number of available spare sectors on a disk ? as it may be useful for notifying a user to take a backup of the disk before it runs into a medium error. (6 Replies)
03-28-2014
