How to view available SATA hard drives

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

[email protected]:~# format
Searching for disks…done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c8t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 60797 alt 2 hd 255 sec 252>
/[email protected],0/pci15d9,[email protected],2/[email protected],0
1. c8t1d0 <ATA-Hitachi HDS72202-A3EA-1.82TB>
/[email protected],0/pci15d9,[email protected],2/[email protected],0
2. c8t2d0 <ATA-Hitachi HDS72202-A28A-1.82TB>
/[email protected],0/pci15d9,[email protected],2/[email protected],0
3. c8t3d0 <ATA-Hitachi HDS72202-A3EA-1.82TB>
/[email protected],0/pci15d9,[email protected],2/[email protected],0
4. c8t4d0 <ATA-Hitachi HDS72202-A3EA-1.82TB>
/[email protected],0/pci15d9,[email protected],2/[email protected],0
5. c8t5d0 <ATA-Hitachi HDS72202-A3EA-1.82TB>
/[email protected],0/pci15d9,[email protected],2/[email protected],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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