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Adding a SCSI disk

Hi,

Anyone can show me a step-by-step procedure to add a new SCSI disk into a Sun Solaris system?

So, imagine a working Sun Solaris system and I bought a new SCSI disk (from Sun).

I put the disk inside.

Now what?

Please describe the steps in much detail.

The disk should be mounted in /backup

The goal is to use the disk and write a small text file in it.

Thanks

yuzh

after install the hard drive, power on the box to OBP promp
( <Stop> A, to get to OBP), type in:
probe-scsi
to make sure the box can see the new hard disk, then perform a reconfigure boot, by typing in:
boot -rv
when the system fully boot up, login as root (or login as a user then su as root), then:

1. run format -> partition the new disk
2. creat a new file systems on the hard disk :
eg:
newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s7
3. create the mount point for the hard disk:
mkdir /backup
4. edit /etc/vfstab
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7 /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s7 /backup ufs 2 yes -
5. mount the hard disk:
mount /backup

Note: please replace c0t1d0s7 with your real disk partion name.

kapot

ASKER

Hi yuzh,

How did you get the "s7" from the /c0t1d0s7 ?

When I run format, it displays only something like /c0t1d0

omarfarid

Hi,

The device name foe the disk is c0t1d0 (controller 0 target 1 disk 0).

Each disk can have up to 8 partitions / slices from 0 to 7.

When you want to refer to partition 7 / slice 7 device name to create a file system / mount it then you use c0t1d0s7

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