uninstalling hardware 2

[simanek]

Hi all,

I currently have an ultra 5 box running solaris 7. I installed it using the cdrom and now I want to replace the cdrom with another IDE hard drive. Problem is, when I gank the cabling from the cdrom and attach it to the hard drive, solaris does not recognize that there is another hard drive. Any suggestions?

Mike Mike
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[FarahRegal]

At OK prompt boot -r in order to configure the device. At OK Prompt probe-scsi-all in order to see devices attached to the system. Make sure that the target of Cdrom is 6 and Hard drive is either 0,1, 2 and 3 which is default boot disk. .

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[simanek]

maybe i'm dumb (as is often the case) but won't a probe-scsi-all only find scsi devices? the hard drives that i have are IDE. will this make a difference? is there an equivalent command for ide devices? Thanks Mike
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[tuka]

Ultra5 has onboard IDE support. So do a probe-ide
at the ok prompt. If the new drive isn't seen here
then there is no need to attempt a boot.

If the new drive is seen at the probe-ide command then you
have two options:
1. boot the system back up and run devfsadm and configure the disk

2. boot -r

Why not installed the new disk as a slave to the present Primary disk and leave the cdrom installed on the secondary channel. All you need is to get a different IDE cable that has two connectors (for two drives). Cables are available.

I have done this to an Ultra 5.