How to view available SATA hard drives

You will be able to view hardware ID’s for hard drives using ‘format’

Giovanni@server:~# format
Searching for disks…done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c8t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 60797 alt 2 hd 255 sec 252>
/pci@0,0/pci15d9,d380@1f,2/disk@0,0
1. c8t1d0 <ATA-Hitachi HDS72202-A3EA-1.82TB>
/pci@0,0/pci15d9,d380@1f,2/disk@1,0
2. c8t2d0 <ATA-Hitachi HDS72202-A28A-1.82TB>
/pci@0,0/pci15d9,d380@1f,2/disk@2,0
3. c8t3d0 <ATA-Hitachi HDS72202-A3EA-1.82TB>
/pci@0,0/pci15d9,d380@1f,2/disk@3,0
4. c8t4d0 <ATA-Hitachi HDS72202-A3EA-1.82TB>
/pci@0,0/pci15d9,d380@1f,2/disk@4,0
5. c8t5d0 <ATA-Hitachi HDS72202-A3EA-1.82TB>
/pci@0,0/pci15d9,d380@1f,2/disk@5,0
Specify disk (enter its number):

Hard drives are located on /dev/dsk in Opensolaris. Compare to the zpool status and add drives that are new to the system (not yet in any storage pools)

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