[SunHELP] New disk installed not recognized by Solaris 7

[Tige D. Chastain]

Ido Dubrawsky wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:39:57AM -0400, Andre' Blanchard wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > Probably stating the obvious but just in case:
> >
> > On your working system, edit your /etc/format.dat file to include an entry
> > for this new disk (Use one of the other entries as a template; replace the
> > drive specs with the ones for your new disk.  Then run the format command.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Regards:
> 
> Yep, tried that...didn't help.  I also entered the disk geomoetry manually
> through format and about 20 minutes into the low level format it bailed.  As
> I said, the solution was to put the disk into a Linux box, format it there and
> then reformat it under Solaris.  That did the trick.
> 
> Ido

As I am the one that started this thread, I thouhgt I would give an
update.

When I installed the drive, I expected to just format it and go, as I
haven't
installed a brand new drive in a SUN box before.  Once I ran disks and
drvconfig,
format would recognize the drive.  I performed a format on the drive and
then 
sliced it up.  All has been well since that time.

I appreicate the emails from everyone giving me hints and pointers.

Thanks again!

Tige Chastain
tdchastain at insightbb.com