On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Ed Donahue liberaled@gmail.com wrote:

It shows the physical disks on the server

bash-2.05b# format Searching for disks...done

AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t2d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@2,0 1. c0t3d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@3,0 2. c0t4d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> /sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@4,0 3. c1t10d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> /sbus@3,0/QLGC,isp@0,10000/sd@a,0 4. c1t11d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> /sbus@3,0/QLGC,isp@0,10000/sd@b,0 5. c1t12d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> /sbus@3,0/QLGC,isp@0,10000/sd@c,0 Specify disk (enter its number):

There is no 'one' equivalent.

If you want to partition disks, use fdisk.

If you want to see the physical hardware info, try cat /proc/scsi/scsi or cat /proc/ide/hd?/model

Try lshw (http://www.ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter) or ask google for "ioscan for Linux" :) Regards,