[SunHELP] (no subject)

A great deal of hardware is hot-swappable on Sun hardware, disks on the E4x0
series for example.

The E3500, however, only allows disks to be added internally via an internal
disk board (a waste of a valuable system slot) or via external disk packs
and a SCSI cable.  There's no issues to adding external disks hot.  

Adding internal disk boards is not mentioned among the highly available
features available on the E3500, however.  You can read that page here:
http://www.sun.com/servers/midrange/e3500/details.html#g2_5 and even then,
the hot-swap "dynamic reconfiguration" options are described as supported on
sol 7 & 8.  I'd recommend adding a new disk board while cold on a v2.6
system.

The newly added external disks can be discovered with a reconfig reboot
(boot -r) or by doing these three commands in sequence while the system is
up: 

drvconfig && devlinks && disks

Note that these can take quite a while on some systems and they don't
necessarily work as reliably as a reconfig reboot.

Good luck,
Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Feras Philip Malouf [mailto:feras at eccdxb.co.ae]
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 10:59 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] (no subject)


Hello,

I have a SUN E3500 server running Solaris 2.5, I need to add a disk to the
system itself, do I need
to power off the server or I can add it on the fly, what commands do I need
to
do on the server to make
it see the disk.

Many Thanks,
Feras.
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