Third HD in a shoe box

2007-12-25 11:23:00

Hi Folks,

As usual you came through like a lightning;D

Many thanks to:

Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>

Roger B.A. Klorese <rogerk@sendmail.com>

Adam Nevins <asn@mediaone.net>

And to those whose responses hasn't reached me yet.

Summary:

I touched /reconfigure and restarted the system, and the HD showed up in

the format list;)

Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 23:06:38 -0500

From: Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>

To: "Joe R. Jah" <jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us>

Subject: Re: Third HD in a shoe box

Sounds like you didn't do a reconfiguration reboot.

Either run "boot -r" from the bootprom monitor prompt, or Create a file

"reconfigure" in the root directory

(ie: touch /reconfigure) and reboot the system.

The original question:

> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 18:16:00 -0800 (PST)

> From: "Joe R. Jah" <jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us>

> To: sun-managers@codeprof.ececs.uc.edu

> Subject: Third HD in a shoe box

>

> Hi Folks,

>

> I run Solaris 2.5 on a Spark5 box; it has two internal HD's, 2 & 4 Gig

> SCSI ID's 3 and 1. An Exabyte EXB-8500 8mm tape drive, SCSI ID 2. CD is

> in an external shoe box, SCSI ID 6, it terminates the chain. I added a 9

> Gig HD, SCSI ID 0, mid-chain to the shoe box today. When I started the

> system according to /var/adm/messages the system sees the new HD at

> /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@0,0

> and recognizes it as <SEAGATE-ST39140N-1487 cyl 9004 alt 2 hd 8 sec 246>,

> but the device sd@0,0 is missing, and when I run format I do not see the

> new HD.

>

Best regards,

Joe


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