The following format output is from a system with two disks.
# format Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t1d0 <SUN0535 cyl 1866 alt 2 hd 7 sec 80> /sbus@1,f8000000/esp@0,800000/sd@1,0 1. c0t2d0 <SUN1.05 cyl 2036 alt 2 hd 14 sec 72> /sbus@1,f8000000/esp@0,800000/sd@2,0 Specify disk (enter its number): |
The format output associates a disk's physical and local device name to the disk's marketing name which appears in brackets <>. This is an easy way to identify which local device names represent the disks connected to your system. See Chapter 20, Accessing Devices (Overview), for a description of local and physical device names.
The following example uses a wildcard to display the disks connected to a second controller.
# format /dev/rdsk/c2* AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s0 <SUN2.1G cyl 2733 alt 2 hd 19 sec 80> /io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/QLGC,isp@2,10000/sd@0,0 1. /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0s0 <SUN2.1G cyl 2733 alt 2 hd 19 sec 80> /io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/QLGC,isp@2,10000/sd@1,0 2. /dev/rdsk/c2t2d0s0 <SUN2.1G cyl 2733 alt 2 hd 19 sec 80> /io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/QLGC,isp@2,10000/sd@2,0 3. /dev/rdsk/c2t3d0s0 <SUN2.1G cyl 2733 alt 2 hd 19 sec 80> /io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/QLGC,isp@2,10000/sd@3,0 4. /dev/rdsk/c2t5d0s0 <SUN2.1G cyl 2733 alt 2 hd 19 sec 80> /io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/QLGC,isp@2,10000/sd@5,0 Specify disk (enter its number): |
The following example identifies the disks on a SPARC based system.
# format AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t3d0 <SUN2.1G cyl 2733 alt 2 hd 19 sec 80> /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5, 8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@3,0 Specify disk (enter its number): |
The format output identifies that disk 0 (target 1) is connected to the first SCSI host adapter (esp@0...), which is connected to the first SBus device (sbus@1...). The output also associates both the physical and logical device name to the disk's marketing name, SUN0535.
The following example identifies the disks on an x86 based system.
# format Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 507 alt 2 hd 64 sec 32> /eisa/dpt@5c88,0/cmdk@0,0 1. c0t3d0 <DEFAULT cyl 1852 alt 2 hd 15 sec 74> /eisa/dpt@5c88,0/cmdk@3,0 Specify disk (enter its number): |
The format output identifies that disk 0, target 0 (cmdk@0,0) is connected to the first DPT host adapter (dpt@5...), which is connected to the EISA device (eisa). The format output on an x86 based system does not identify disks by their marketing names.