Show Physical Disk

For each physical disk in the storage array, this command returns:

• Total number of physical disks
• Type of physical disk (Fibre Channel, SATA, SAS, or PATA)
• Basic physical disk information:
• Enclosure and slot location
• Status
• Capacity
• Data transfer rate
• Product ID
• Firmware level
• Physical disk channel information:
• Enclosure and slot location
• Preferred channel
• Redundant channel
• Hot spare coverage
• Details for each physical disk

Depending on the size of your storage array, this information can be several pages long. Refer to Show Physical Disk to see an example of the physical disk information returned by show physical disks command. The physical disk information is also returned for the show storageArray profile command.

Syntax

show (allPhysical Disks [driveType=(fibre | SATA | SAS | PATA)] | physical disk [trayID,slotID] | physical disks [trayID1,slotID1 ... trayIDn,slotIDn]) [summary]

Parameters

Parameter	Description
allPhysical Disks	Returns information about all physical disks in the storage array.
driveType	The type of physical disks for which you want to retrieve information. Valid physical disk types are: fibre, SATA, SAS, or PATA.
physical disks	Identifies the enclosure and slot where the physical disk resides. You can enter enclosure IDs and slot IDs for one or several physical disks. Enclosure ID values are 0 to 99. Slot ID values are 1 to 32. Enclose the enclosure ID and slot ID values in parentheses.
summary	Returns the status, capacity, data rate, product ID, and firmware version for the specified physical disks.

Notes

• To determine information about the type and location of all physical disks in the storage array, use the allPhysical Disks parameter.
• To determine the information about the Fibre Channel, SATA, SAS or PATA physical disks in the storage array use the driveType parameter.
• To determine the type of physical disk in a specific location, use the physical disk parameter and enter the enclosure and slot IDs for the physical disk.

Minimum Firmware Level

5.43
7.10 adds SAS