SUMMARY: Third HD in a shoe box

From: Joe R. Jah (jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us)
Date: Fri Nov 05 1999 - 23:50:56 CST


Hi Folks,

As usual you came through like a lightning;D

Many thanks to:

Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>
Roger B.A. Klorese <rogerk@sendmail.com>
Adam Nevins <asn@mediaone.net>

And to those whose responses hasn't reached me yet.

Summary:

I touched /reconfigure and restarted the system, and the HD showed up in
the format list;)

Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 23:06:38 -0500
From: Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>
To: "Joe R. Jah" <jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us>
Subject: Re: Third HD in a shoe box

Sounds like you didn't do a reconfiguration reboot.

Either run "boot -r" from the bootprom monitor prompt, or Create a file
"reconfigure" in the root directory
(ie: touch /reconfigure) and reboot the system.

The original question:

> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 18:16:00 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Joe R. Jah" <jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us>
> To: sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
> Subject: Third HD in a shoe box
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I run Solaris 2.5 on a Spark5 box; it has two internal HD's, 2 & 4 Gig
> SCSI ID's 3 and 1. An Exabyte EXB-8500 8mm tape drive, SCSI ID 2. CD is
> in an external shoe box, SCSI ID 6, it terminates the chain. I added a 9
> Gig HD, SCSI ID 0, mid-chain to the shoe box today. When I started the
> system according to /var/adm/messages the system sees the new HD at
> /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@0,0
> and recognizes it as <SEAGATE-ST39140N-1487 cyl 9004 alt 2 hd 8 sec 246>,
> but the device sd@0,0 is missing, and when I run format I do not see the
> new HD.
>

Best regards,

Joe

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