[Sunhelp] format parameters for ST32550N and IBM DCHS-34550 needed

[Richard E Ravich]

Hi,

As of Solaris 2.5 (maybe it was 2.4, I don't remember), format.dat entries
are not required to make things work.  I suspect that if you do a boor -r
from the OK prompt, then the other drives should be seen and device nodes
will be built for them.

If you want to do it without taking the system down use the following two
commands:

drvconfig
disks

They accomplish the same thing.

Regards,

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Richard E. Ravich			Amdahl Corporation
Sunnyvale, California			(408) 746-3245
Amateur Radio Station WD6FIE		Email address: richardr at amdahl.com 
The views expressed are solely my own


On Fri, 14 May 1999, Yu-I Tseng wrote:

> Greetings, all.
> 
>     I am totally new to Sun SparcStations. Recently I purchased a SS20
> and a 911 case. Two Seagate ST-32550N and two IBM DCHS-34550 SCSI drives
> have been installed in the external case and connected to the
> workstation. Currently I am running Solaris 7. I want the OS have access
> to these storage devices.
> 
>     I issued 'probe-scsi' in OpenBoot command line and a list of SCSI
> devices are detected properly. Later while the OS is loading, I noticed
> few lines of 'bad magic number' warnings. I guess this is ok since these
> drive are not from Sun. When I run 'format' command, only the drive
> inside SS20 is listed.
> 
>    What are the exact steps to go through in order for Solaris to gain
> access to these devices? What entries do I need to enter into
> /etc/format.dat file? How do perform a low-level format and OS-level
> format on these drives? Any help is appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
>