Sun Fire X4540 - Decoding Disk device path to Physical disk slot numbers

Asset ID:	1-71-1368404.1
Update Date:	2012-10-10
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Solution Type Technical Instruction Sure

Solution 1368404.1 : Sun Fire X4540 - Decoding Disk device path to Physical disk slot numbers

Applies to:

Sun Fire X4540 Server - Version Not Applicable and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

How to decode the Solaris Device path to a Physical Disk ?

Fix

The Device path is as follows. This can be used when there is no hdtool installed or customer not able to run hdtool.

AMIBIOS(C)2006 American Megatrends, Inc.                                        
BIOS Build Version : 0ABNF022 Date: 11/04/08 11:11:56 Core: 08.00.14            S
CPU : Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2356                                  
 Speed : 2.30 GHz    Count : 8                                                  
Node0 DCT0 = 667 MHz, DCT1 = 667 MHz,                                           
Node1 DCT0 = 667 MHz, DCT1 = 667 MHz,                                           
                                                                                
Sun Fire X4540, 2 AMD North Bridges, Rev B3           

MEM:    32G
BIOS:   22
OS:     S10U6b07b

Test Result
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Network 0 (nge0)        /pci@0,0/pci10de,cb84@8
Network 1 (nge1)        /pci@0,0/pci10de,cb84@9
Network 2 (nge2)        /pci@3c,0/pci10de,cb84@8
Network 3 (nge3)        /pci@3c,0/pci10de,cb84@9

Disk 0                  /pci@0,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@0,0
Disk 1                  /pci@0,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@1,0
Disk 2                  /pci@0,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@2,0
Disk 3                  /pci@0,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@3,0
Disk 4                  /pci@0,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@4,0
Disk 5                  /pci@0,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@5,0
Disk 6                  /pci@0,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@6,0
Disk 7                  /pci@0,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@7,0
Disk 8                  /pci@0,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@0,0
Disk 9                  /pci@0,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@1,0
Disk 10                 /pci@0,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@2,0
Disk 11                 /pci@0,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@3,0
Disk 12                 /pci@0,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@4,0
Disk 13                 /pci@0,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@5,0
Disk 14                 /pci@0,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@6,0
Disk 15                 /pci@0,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@7,0
Disk 16                 /pci@0,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@0,0
Disk 17                 /pci@0,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@1,0
Disk 18                 /pci@0,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@2,0
Disk 19                 /pci@0,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@3,0
Disk 20                 /pci@0,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@4,0
Disk 21                 /pci@0,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@5,0
Disk 22                 /pci@0,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@6,0
Disk 23                 /pci@0,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@7,0
Disk 24                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@0,0
Disk 25                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@1,0
Disk 26                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@2,0
Disk 27                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@3,0
Disk 28                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@4,0
Disk 29                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@5,0
Disk 30                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@6,0
Disk 31                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,377@a/pci1000,1000@0/sd@7,0
Disk 32                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@0,0
Disk 33                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@1,0
Disk 34                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@2,0
Disk 35                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@3,0
Disk 36                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@4,0
Disk 37                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@5,0
Disk 38                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@6,0
Disk 39                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,375@b/pci1000,1000@0/sd@7,0
Disk 40                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@0,0
Disk 41                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@1,0
Disk 42                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@2,0
Disk 43                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@3,0
Disk 44                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@4,0
Disk 45                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@5,0
Disk 46                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@6,0
Disk 47                 /pci@3c,0/pci10de,376@f/pci1000,1000@0/sd@7,0

CompactFlash            /pci@0,0/pci-ide@4/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
TTYA                    /isa/asy@1,3f8
VGA Port                /pci@0,0/pci10de,370@6/display@5

USB (Front, High)       /pci@0,0/pci10de,cb84@2,1/hub@6:6.1
USB (Front, Low)        /pci@0,0/pci10de,cb84@2,1/hub@6:6.2
USB (Rear, High)        /pci@0,0/pci10de,cb84@2,1:2
USB (Rear, Low)         /pci@0,0/pci10de,cb84@2,1:3

PCI-E Slot 0            /pci@79,0/pci10de,377@a
PCI-E Slot 1            /pci@79,0/pci10de,375@b
PCI-E Slot 3            /pci@79,0/pci10de,376@f

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Refer to the images below, these gives the physical disk slot numbers

Solaris disk names when OS is factory installed or jumpstarted without any USB storage devices present at install time.





Solaris disk names when OS is installed from one USB CD/DVD storage device.

Solaris Device Names with 2 USB storage devices are present at install time.

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