[SunRescue] Extra HD

[Alan Rubin]

dont forget to run newfs before you  try to mount a filesystem.

alan

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Kurt Nowak wrote:

> the "format" selection under the format command will format the drive :)
> 
> kurt
> 
> 
> Walter Peterson wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I have the drive recognized. What device name do I use to fdisk the
> > drive. Or do I even need to run fdisk. drvconfig and drives did the trick.
> > Format "formats?" the drive. Still can't mount it however.
> >
> > Looking forward to getting RedHat!
> >
> > At 02:26 PM 9/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
> > >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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