how to declare a new disk on my workstation ?

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On Saturday 15 November 2003 3:35 pm in comp.sys.sun.admin gipsy wrote:

> how to declare a new disk on my workstation ?

devfsadm


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In article <3FB647CB.1040708@free.fr>, gipsy <gipsy@free.fr> wrote:

> how to declare a new disk on my workstation ?

1) The hardware has to recognize it (e.g. it shows up at the OBP)

IIRC, U30s don't have SCSI, so probe-scsi-all won't help. But perhaps
probe-pci-all will. Try it. Does the disk show up at the OBP?

2) The system must be reconfigured to build device files for it

From root, type

drvconfig; drives

or boot the system with -r:

boot -r

or create a reconfiguration file flag and reboot:

touch /reconfigure
reboot

[I know there's a deva<somethign> utility, which I never used on 2.6
systems]

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In article <vilain-7E68B8.09243915112003@comcast.ash.giganews.com>,
Michael Vilain <vilain@spamcop.net> wrote:

> IIRC, U30s don't have SCSI, so probe-scsi-all won't help.

The U30 has one 40MB/sec UltraSCSI channel with two 80 pin
SCA connectors for internal disks, one 50 pin connector for
internal CD-ROM or tape, and one 68 pin connector for
external SCSI devices.

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"Michael Vilain <vilain@spamcop.net>" writes:

>In article <3FB647CB.1040708@free.fr>, gipsy <gipsy@free.fr> wrote:

>> how to declare a new disk on my workstation ?

>1) The hardware has to recognize it (e.g. it shows up at the OBP)

>IIRC, U30s don't have SCSI, so probe-scsi-all won't help. But perhaps
>probe-pci-all will. Try it. Does the disk show up at the OBP?

Err, Ultra 30's definitely *do* have SCSI. Ultra 5's and 10's are the
machines which don't have SCSI.

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> + On 15-Nov-03 18:24:39
+Michael Vilain <vilain@spamcop.net> wrote

>> how to declare a new disk on my workstation ?

>1) The hardware has to recognize it (e.g. it shows up at the OBP)

>IIRC, U30s don't have SCSI, so probe-scsi-all won't help. But perhaps
>probe-pci-all will. Try it. Does the disk show up at the OBP?

The Ultra30 is what the Ultra10 should have been, the big difference
actually is that it have SCSI instead of IDE.. UltraWideSCSI with SCA
connectors internally if I remember correctly.

If it had been an Ultra5/10 he could have issued the probe-ide instead
of probe-scsi at the OBP prompt.