Removing Drives with cfgadm
Newer Sun kit has a feature where when you unconfigure an internal drive for removal a blue light comes on indicating the device is ready for removal. This is quite useful when you are performing break fix to a remote location, so that the engineeers know which drive to pull.
This works when removing tape drives as well as in the example below
bash-2.03# cfgadm -alv Ap_Id Receptacle Occupant Condition Information When Type Busy Phys_Id c0 connected configured unknown unavailable scsi-bus n /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6:scsi c0::dsk/c0t6d0 connected configured unknown unavailable unavailable CD-ROM y /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6:scsi::dsk/c0t6d0 c2 connected configured unknown unavailable scsi-bus n /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1:scsi c2::dsk/c2t0d0 connected configured unknown SEAGATE ST336605LSUN36G unavailable disk n /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1:scsi::dsk/c2t0d0 c2::dsk/c2t1d0 connected configured unknown SEAGATE ST336605LSUN36G unavailable disk n /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1:scsi::dsk/c2t1d0 c3 connected configured unknown unavailable scsi-bus n /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@3/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi c3::dsk/c3t0d0 connected configured unknown SEAGATE ST336605LSUN36G unavailable disk n /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@3/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::dsk/c3t0d0 c3::dsk/c3t1d0 connected configured unknown SEAGATE ST336605LSUN36G unavailable disk n /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@3/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::dsk/c3t1d0 c4 connected configured unknown unavailable scsi-bus n /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi c4::rmt/0 connected configured unknown QUANTUM SuperDLT1 unavailable tape n /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::rmt/0 c4::rmt/1 connected configured unknown QUANTUM SuperDLT1 unavailable tape n /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::rmt/1
bash-2.03# cfgadm -alv Ap_Id Receptacle Occupant Condition Information When Type Busy Phys_Id c0 connected configured unknown unavailable scsi-bus n /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6:scsi c0::dsk/c0t6d0 connected configured unknown unavailable unavailable CD-ROM y /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6:scsi::dsk/c0t6d0 c2 connected configured unknown unavailable scsi-bus n /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1:scsi c2::dsk/c2t0d0 connected configured unknown SEAGATE ST336605LSUN36G unavailable disk n /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1:scsi::dsk/c2t0d0 c2::dsk/c2t1d0 connected configured unknown SEAGATE ST336605LSUN36G unavailable disk n /devices/pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1:scsi::dsk/c2t1d0 c3 connected configured unknown unavailable scsi-bus n /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@3/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi c3::dsk/c3t0d0 connected configured unknown SEAGATE ST336605LSUN36G unavailable disk n /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@3/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::dsk/c3t0d0 c3::dsk/c3t1d0 connected configured unknown SEAGATE ST336605LSUN36G unavailable disk n /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@3/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::dsk/c3t1d0 c4 connected configured unknown unavailable scsi-bus n /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi c4::rmt/0 connected configured unknown QUANTUM SuperDLT1 unavailable tape n /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::rmt/0 c4::rmt/1 connected configured unknown QUANTUM SuperDLT1 unavailable tape n /devices/pci@8,700000/pci@2/SUNW,isptwo@4:scsi::rmt/1









