[SunRescue] Extra HD

[Walter Peterson]

Ok, I have the drive recognized. What device name do I use to fdisk the
drive. Or do I even need to run fdisk. drvconfig and drives did the trick.
Format "formats?" the drive. Still can't mount it however.

Looking forward to getting RedHat!  

At 02:26 PM 9/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>No. Unless the devises are already registered in the /dev/rdsk directory, you
>need to execute 'drvconfig' and 'disks' first.
>
>Kurt
>
>"Hatle, Steven J." wrote:
>
>> I may have missed this earlier, but in Solaris if you issue the 'format'
>> command does the second disk show up in the selection screen?
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Walter Peterson [mailto:wep at cyberstreet.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 3:15 PM
>> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: [SunRescue] Extra HD
>>
>> If I do a probe-scsi it shows both drives
>>
>> here is output
>>
>> Target 1
>> Unit 0  Disk    Tandem 4255-5   902800149969
>>                         Copyright (c) 1994 Seagate
>>                         All rights reserved 000
>> Target 3
>> Unit 0  Disk    Seagate ST11200N        SUN1.0594000000000
>>                         Copyright (c) 1995 000
>>                         All rights reserved 000
>>
>> Target 3 has Solaris installed on and boots. The other drive does not
>> showup in openboot during normal boot process and solaris can't see it.
>> (may have no partitions on it).
>>
>> A few answers...
>>
>> >The output from OpenBoot would be helpful - that would tell us the target
>> >the new HD is actually set to, since SCSI ID 1 doesn't appear to be
>> working.
>>
>> >CD-ROMs for Sun systems are typically set to SCSI ID #6, then you can
>> >typically issue a command like 'boot cdrom' from the OK> prompt to run the
>> >Red Hat installer (same for Solaris).
>>
>> >RedHat Linux labels hard drives as letters starting with the first
drive it
>> >finds, your SCSI ID HD would be sda, than the pre-existing HD on SCSI ID 3
>> >would be sdb. If you were to later add a drive as SCSI ID 2, then Red Hat
>> >Linux would map the drives as SCSI ID 1 would be sda, SCSI ID 2 would be
>> >sdb, and the SCSI ID HD would be sdc - any links to mount filesystems on
>> >SCSI ID 3 would break, and need to be fixed.
>>
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