How to detect external hardisk for Sun Solaris 2.5.1

[norsyam21]

Hi,

I have one Sun Machine with Sun Solaris 2.5.1 as its o/s and one external hardisk. How or what should I do to detect external hardisk to my Sun Machine? I'm still new in Sun Solaris environment.

Thanks.

 

[tuka]

If you shutdown the system to the ok prompt (ok >)
You can do a probe-scsi-all ( for SCSI devices)
You can do a probe-ide for IDE devices
Example: ok > probe-scsi-all
ok > probe-ide
From the above output you can determine what the scsi address or ide selection your new device must be.
Set the new scsi device or IDE device for its correct address or master/slave, pri or sec.

Do the probe command.
This will go out and probe for all the devices. If all the devices are not seen then you have a problem. Probably
mis-cabled or wrong id.

If all the devices were seen (original and new devices)
then you can a boot -r. This will congigure the new devices
into the system.
Also if the system is up you can configure in the new devices by issuing this command.
drvconfig: disks or tapes (wheter disk or tape drive is added)
These are the steps required for getting the new disk(s) online. Add the devices as listed above.
1. run format
select the new device and partition and label the disk
2. newfs (see the man page, ex: man newfs) each partition

3. fsck each new device
4. make a directory
5. vi the /etc/vfstab file
6. mount the new device.
If a tape drive is added,then after configuring the
tape drive is ready.