Oracle Documentation
System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems.
About Disk Labels from the Solaris 10 Administration Collection.
EFI Disk Label.
blogs:
Eric Kustarz's Weblog enabling the write cache.
The Random Bit Bucket, Moinak Ghosh's Weblog Solaris x86 Partition Table Viewer.
Live from New Jersey... John Cecere's Weblog, Booting SPARC and x86 Solaris from a single DVD.
other:
From EASEUS Elementary knowledge of hard disk - Physical structure of hard disk.
Extensible Firmware Interface
Info Doc 73684 Solaris[TM] Operating System: Tech Tip on EFI disk labels
format(1M)
fmthard(1M)
devfsadm(1M)
prtconf(1M)
Disk Terminology
Before you can effectively use the information in this section, you
should be familiar with basic disk architecture. In particular, you should
be familiar with the following terms:
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Disk Term
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Description
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Track
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A concentric ring on a disk that passes under a single stationary disk
head as the disk rotates.
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Cylinder
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The set of tracks with the same nominal distance from the axis about
which the disk rotates.
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Sector
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Section of each disk platter. A sector holds 512 bytes.
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Block
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A data storage area on a disk. A disk block is 512 bytes.
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Disk controller
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A chip and its associated circuitry that controls the disk drive.
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Disk label
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The first sector of a disk that contains disk geometry and partition
information.
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Device driver
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A kernel module that controls a hardware or virtual device.
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For additional information, see the product information from your disk's
manufacturer.
