[SunRescue] Extra HD

[Kurt Nowak]

No. Unless the devises are already registered in the /dev/rdsk directory, you
need to execute 'drvconfig' and 'disks' first.

Kurt

"Hatle, Steven J." wrote:

> I may have missed this earlier, but in Solaris if you issue the 'format'
> command does the second disk show up in the selection screen?
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Peterson [mailto:wep at cyberstreet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 3:15 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] Extra HD
>
> If I do a probe-scsi it shows both drives
>
> here is output
>
> Target 1
> Unit 0  Disk    Tandem 4255-5   902800149969
>                         Copyright (c) 1994 Seagate
>                         All rights reserved 000
> Target 3
> Unit 0  Disk    Seagate ST11200N        SUN1.0594000000000
>                         Copyright (c) 1995 000
>                         All rights reserved 000
>
> Target 3 has Solaris installed on and boots. The other drive does not
> showup in openboot during normal boot process and solaris can't see it.
> (may have no partitions on it).
>
> A few answers...
>
> >The output from OpenBoot would be helpful - that would tell us the target
> >the new HD is actually set to, since SCSI ID 1 doesn't appear to be
> working.
>
> >CD-ROMs for Sun systems are typically set to SCSI ID #6, then you can
> >typically issue a command like 'boot cdrom' from the OK> prompt to run the
> >Red Hat installer (same for Solaris).
>
> >RedHat Linux labels hard drives as letters starting with the first drive it
> >finds, your SCSI ID HD would be sda, than the pre-existing HD on SCSI ID 3
> >would be sdb. If you were to later add a drive as SCSI ID 2, then Red Hat
> >Linux would map the drives as SCSI ID 1 would be sda, SCSI ID 2 would be
> >sdb, and the SCSI ID HD would be sdc - any links to mount filesystems on
> >SCSI ID 3 would break, and need to be fixed.
>
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