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Hard Disk Not Seen In format After Physical Replacement (Doc ID 2027630.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 15, 2023

Applies to:

Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 Server - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 Server - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000-32 Server - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Solaris Operating System - Version 10 3/05 and later
Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 Server - Version All Versions and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

After the successful online replacement of a Hard Disk Drive it might happen that the new disk is not visible in the output of the format command,
although both the old and the new disk were correctly unconfigured/configured with cfgadm

cfgadm will see the disk without any problem.


Example for a M4000 disk:

This issue has been observed with Solaris 10 and 11.

Changes

 

Cause

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