Sun Microsystems Fire X4540, Administration Manual

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24 Sun Fire X4500/ X4540 Servers Administration Guide • October 2008
For information about states, see the sections that follow. For more information
about attachment points, see the
cfgadm
(1M) man page.
States and Conditions
This section describes the states and conditions of drive slots, components, and
attachment points.
■
State is the operational status of either a hard disk drive slot or its occupant.
■
Condition is the operational status of an attachment point.
The
cfgadm
(1M) command can display nine types of states and conditions. For
more information, see “Component States” on page 25 .
Drive and Drive Slot States
When a drive slot does not hold a drive, its state is
empty
. When the slot does
contain a drive, the state of the drive is either
disconnected
or
connected
.
A drive in the
connected
state is either
configured
or
unconfigured
. A drive
that is disconnected is always unconfigured.
TABLE 3-1
Drive and Drive Slot States
State Description
empty
The slot does not hold a drive.
disconnected
The drive in the slot is disconnected from the system bus. A drive
can be in the disconnected state without being powered off.
However, a drive must be powered off and in the disconnected state
before you remove it from the slot. A newly inserted drive is in the
disconnected
state.
connected
The drive in the slot is powered on and connected to the system
bus. You can view the components on a drive only after it is in the
connected state.
TABLE 3-2
Conrfigured and Unconfigured Drives
Name Description
configured
The drive is available for use by the Solaris software.
unconfigured
The drive is not available for use by the Solaris software.