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> Subject: /dev files not created for disks
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> Solaris 2.3 Hardware release on a SS20
> We just moved a pair of removable disks to an SS20 from an IPC. The disks work fine under 2.3 on the IPC. The SS20 now has 5 disk bays on it on two scsi ports (the internal and a SCSI/Ethernet SUN SBus adapter).
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> probe-scsi shows the disks. When we boot -r the box, the two new disks are seen - we get sd entries in the messages file for them, but we do not get the /dev/rdsk/cXXXXXXX entries created.
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> Any ideas?
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Two replies:
One a Me too, the other helped find the answer:
>From: MEYSTMA%DUVM.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU
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>have you run 'disks'? (see the man page for 'disks' for more information)
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>Good luck,
>
>Mike
>meystma@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu
Turned out that a /dev/dsk/c0XXXXXX link entry had gotten pointed to a file somehow instead of to one of the real device files. The reboot/reconfigure did not delete the link. So simple deletion of the link and pointing it to the real entry fixed the problem.
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