Disk not shown in Solaris 11.1 format tool

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I have a Sun Fire T2000 with up-to-date firmware, running Solaris 11.1.

I have inserted two SEAGATE-ST914602SSUN146G-0400-136.73GB HDDs in bays 2 and 3.

Both drives show OK in the ALOM and are visible to raidctl. However, the disk in bay 2 does not show up in the format tool, whilst the disk in bay 3 does.

Any suggestions as to how to make format see the drive?

ALOM:

Disk   Status            Service  OK2RM
--------------------------------------------
HDD0   OK                OFF      OFF
HDD1   OK                OFF      OFF
HDD2   OK                OFF      OFF
HDD3   OK                OFF      OFF

Many thanks.

@jillagre:

svcs -xv devfsadm
svc:/system/devfsadm:default (hot-plug and synchronous device support service)
 State: online since June 19, 2013 11:28:33 AM BST
   See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M devfsadm
   See: /var/svc/log/system-devfsadm:default.log
Impact: None.

@Sirch:

dsk/c2t2d0 is missing

cfgadm -al
Ap_Id                          Type         Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
c2                             scsi-sas     connected    configured   unknown
c2::dsk/c2t0d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c2::dsk/c2t1d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c2::dsk/c2t3d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c3                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c3::dsk/c3t0d0                 CD-ROM       connected    configured   unknown

Best Answer

It looks a lot like raidctl has established some sort of raid on them already and handing the OS a single raided target.

Does the output of raidctl and raidctl -l c2t3d0 confirm this? If so, youll want to remove this raided with 

raidctl -d c2t3d0

Then cfgadm -al will hopefully give you your 2 devices without rebooting.

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