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Checking for hard disk drive failures

To check the hard disk drives from problems:

  1. If you are not logged in, log in as root.
  2. At the command prompt, enter metadb

    The system displays information about each hard disk drive.

    The following example shows the results of the metadb command for a system with hard disk drive problems.

    flags first blk block count
    a m p luo 16 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s4
    a p
    luo 1050 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s4
    a p
    luo 2084 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s4
    a p
    luo 3118 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s4
    a p
    luo 4152 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s4
    a p
    luo 5186 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s4
    a p
    luo 6220 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s4
    a p
    luo 7254 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s4
    W p
    l 16 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s4
    W p
    l 1050 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s4
    W p
    l 2084 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s4
    W p
    l 3118 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s4
    W p
    l 4152 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s4
    W p
    l 5186 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s4
    W p
    l 6220 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s4
    W p
    l 7254 1034 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s4
    o - replica
    active prior to last mddb configuration change
    u - replica is up
    to date
    l - locator for this replica was
    read successfully
    c - replica's
    location was in /etc/lvm/mddb.cf
    p -
    replica's location was patched in kernel
    m - replica is master, this is
    replica selected as input
    W - replica has
    device write errors
    a - replica
    is active, commits are occurring to this replica
    M - replica had problem with
    master blocks
    D - replica had
    problem with data blocks
    F - replica had
    format problems
    S - replica
    is too small to hold current data base
    R - replica had device read
    errors

    The Ws in the first column indicate that there is a problem writing to partitions on the secondary disk (c1t1d0s4).

    If you detect problems with the hard disk drive, you must remove the failed drive and replace it with a good one. For more information, see Removing a failed hard disk drive.

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