Installing an external CDROM

[8441]

I am trying to install an external SCSI CDRW drive onto a E3500. I think I need to use the devfsadm command as the server is running Solaris 8.

Could someone point me in the right direction of what class and options I need to use? Does devfsadm effect anything currently running or can it be used safely whilst running with users logged on?

Many thanks for any help

 

[KenCunningham]

Before you try anything else, have you tried rebooting the box with boot -r?

This reconfigures the box as it comes up and might well pick up the new drive. An alternative is to create an empty file called reconfigure in the / directory and bounce the box with shutdown -i6 -g -y, which should have the same effect. HTH.

 

[8441]

Thanks for the reply. I am trying to avoid a reboot due to the nature of the server.being 24/7.

I read that in Solaris 8 devfsadm allows a device to be added without a reboot.Has anyone used this method?

 

[naggiman]

devfsadm is a new single device command in Solaris 8, replacing having to do the following three commands:

drvconfig
devlinks
disks (or "tapes" or "ports&quot

It should pick up any correctly installed hardware and configure the required devices for it.

In Solaris 8 the above 3 commands are links to devfsadm and they should still work in the same way.

Just run "dvfsadm -v" and that should do it all for you (and show you what it is doing).

N.