Accessing external drives created on diffrent O/S

[stupejohns]

Hi,

Does anyone know if you can access external drives from solaris 8 that have been created by solaris 2.6.

I try and get a unknown fstype.

Thank You

Stuart

 

[blainepruitt]

I can't think of any reason why they wouldn't work. It is my understanding that Solaris uses ufs, regardless of Solaris version. I would check to make sure everything is cabled up correctly and terminated (assuming you are using SCSI).

 

[mikeclark]

Make sure each drive has a different SCSI ID.
You might have a conflict.

 

[ackufel]

In addition to checking the external SCSI ID switch on the
box, you can also do a probe-scsi-all from the "ok" prompt.
Your new drive(s) should show up there if you have no
conflicts. I try to set external disk devices at either
SCSI ID 2 or 4 and reserve 0 and 3 for internal drives and
5 for external tape drives and 6 for a CD drive.

 

[mikeclark]

If your adding extra drives you will need to do a re-configure boot (boot -r) for the system to recognise extra drives.

 

[stupejohns]

Sorry, I will give more detail.

I have installed 2.8 on a system that used to be 2.6. I'm trying to access the external drives without much success.

The drives are seen by the system, when I go to format they show up.

It looks like the drives used to be managed with Disksuite, is it possible to mount these drives without disksuite being installed on the new system?????

Do i have to install disksuite to be able to access these drives???? I can not recover the / partition that hosted Disksuite this partition was unrecoverable. So a fresh install of disksuit is all I can do. Any ideas would be great.

Thanx

 

[comtec17]

You will have to install disksuite and import the Volume/Volume Group that resides on the disk.

 

[ackufel]

Unless you need the data on that particular drive, you really shouldn't have to install Disksuite. If the format
command sees the drive, then go into format and re-partition
the drive to whatever slices you may want and then re-label
the drive before exiting the format program. Then do a
"newfs" command on each partition and "fsck" that same
partition and then that partition should be mountable. I
would use the following command line to do everything:
newfs -m 2 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1; fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1
You may want to read the man pages for "newfs" to see all
the options, because some admins like to allow more free
space than the 2% that I used, but I hate to waste disk
space.