Modern versions of smartctl can also tell you: smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [i386-pc-solaris2.11] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST2000DL003-9VT166 Serial Number: 5YD5LYEW LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 045942cc1 Firmware Version: CC3C User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5900 rpm Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4 SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Wed Mar 20 10:17:02 2013 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled - Rich On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Hans J. Albertsson <hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se> wrote: > But still, your suggestion helped me find a bunch of mistakes on the way... > So THANK YOU , and never mind my cantankerous self... > > > On 2013-03-20 14:47, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: >> >> Well, what I was looking for is what the physical drive without any >> prodding from sd.conf would respond... >> >> >> On 2013-03-20 14:21, Reginald Beardsley wrote: >>> >>> FWIW >>> >>> This is how and shows what an ST2000DM001 properly configured using >>> sd.conf reports: >>> >>> >>> oi%rhb {2} echo "::sd_state" | mdb -k | egrep '^un|blocksize' >>> un 0: ffffff0140ddfd00 >>> un_sys_blocksize = 0x200 >>> un_tgt_blocksize = 0x200 >>> un_phy_blocksize = 0x1000 >>> un_f_tgt_blocksize_is_valid = 1 >>> >>> 0x200 = 512 bytes >>> 0x1000 = 4096 bytes >>> >>> Have Fun! >>> Reg >>> >>> >>> --- On Wed, 3/20/13, Hans J. Albertsson <hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> From: Hans J. Albertsson <hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se> >>>> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How can one test in situ, and under OI, >>>> the physical blocksize a SATA disk actually reports?? >>>> To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >>>> Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 8:05 AM >>>> I absolutely need such a tool. Don't >>>> ask... ah well, to impress a silly would-be colleague. >>>> >>>> I tried parted and gparted and a few others: but I can't >>>> seem to make them report what I want to know. >>>> >>>> cfgadm, luxadm, ....??? >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >>>> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >>>> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >>> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >>> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss