[rescue] Firewire on a U5

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Sun Mar 9 17:00:23 CDT 2008


On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:14:55PM -0400, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> 
> >On an Ultra 5, I'm trying to use a firewire disk.
> >
> >I installed a NEC+ALI FW/USB combo card, which I thought had a  
> >supported
> >chipset.
> >
> >I did a reboot -- -r.
> 
> After you plugged it in did you do a devfsadm or a cfgadm -v -c  
> configure ?
> 
> I don't think it just automagically hot-plug works... I could be very  
> wrong, though.

And here I had been led to believe it would just work on Solaris 10.

Anyway, devfsadm does nothing.

cfgadm -v -c configure
needs an ap_id argument, and when I list them, there don't appear to be
any relevent ones.



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