[SunHELP] External SCSI Drive

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1.  $4,000 sounds awfully high.  You should be able to buy a standard SCSI
drive and external enclosure to mount it in.  The local vendor that I use is
pretty good about taking care of the legwork for things like this
(www.uptime.net, out of Edmond, OK).

Go take a look at www.pricewatch.com at the prices for SCSI drives.  Also,
select Cases, then look at the SCSI subcategory.

2.  Make sure the drive is one supported on both systems (hardware wise).
If they are both Solaris, make sure you use UFS.  Make sure that you POWER
off the machines when attaching or unattaching the drive.

3.  When booting the machine up after attaching it, stop it before it gets
into the boot process and type boot -r at the OK prompt to make Solaris
reconfigure everything in /dev.  Better yet, do a "touch /reconfigure"
before shutting down to attach the drive.  There's also a way to do this
without shutting down the machine, "drvconfig; disks", but you've got to
have the machine powered down to attach the drive anyway.

You are going to have to use format to set up the slices and newfs to make
the filesystem.

To mount the drive, use "mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/<disk> <mountpoint>",
assuming that you are using UFS.

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Nathan Nichols
Unix System Administrator
Cicada - http://www.cicadacorp.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: Moreau Nicole M NPRI [mailto:MoreauNM at Npt.NUWC.Navy.Mil]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 3:35 PM
To: 'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
Subject: [SunHELP] External SCSI Drive


Greetings all -
	I have a Sun Blade 1000 running Solaris 8 that I need to buy an
external SCSI drive for.  This drive will be sent back and forth to another
location and will be used on another Solaris Machine of some sort on the
other end.  I have a few questions that hopefully you can all answer:
1. Is there a non Sun drive I could buy, the least expensive one I could
spec out cost 4k.  This is a lot more than I anticipated on spending
2. Assuming there is some kind of external HD, how do I make sure the same
drive can be used on both systems (do they require the same OS)?
3. How do I mount them (reboot -F type of thing)?

Anything information on how to accomplish this task would be greatly
appreciated

Thanks,
Nicole
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Nicole M. Moreau

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