Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 SP1 Administrator"s Guide (5900-1506, April 2011)

To display information about an individual disk
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Type the following command:
# vxdisk [-v] list diskname
The -v option causes the command to additionally list all tags and tag values
that are defined for the disk. Without this option, no tags are displayed.
Displaying disk information with vxdiskadm
Displaying disk information shows you which disks are initialized, to which disk
groups they belong, and the disk status. The list command displays device names
for all recognized disks, the disk names, the disk group names associated with
each disk, and the status of each disk.
To display disk information
1
Start the vxdiskadm program, and select list (List disk information)
from the main menu.
2
At the following display, enter the address of the disk you want to see, or
enter all for a list of all disks:
List disk information
Menu: VolumeManager/Disk/ListDisk
VxVM INFO V-5-2-475 Use this menu operation to display a list of
disks. You can also choose to list detailed information about
the disk at a specific disk device address.
Enter disk device or "all" [<address>,all,q,?] (default: all)
■ If you enter all, VxVM displays the device name, disk name, group, and
status.
■ If you enter the address of the device for which you want information,
complete disk information (including the device name, the type of disk,
and information about the public and private areas of the disk) is displayed.
Once you have examined this information, press Return to return to the main
menu.
Controlling Powerfail Timeout
Powerfail Timeout is an attribute of a SCSI disk connected to an HP-UX host. This
is used to detect and handle I/O on non-responding disks.
125Administering disks
Controlling Powerfail Timeout