Re: Disk drive defect on Enterprise 450?

From: Michael Tosch (eedmit_at_NO.eed.SPAM.ericsson.PLS.se)
Date: 10/27/04

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    Date: 27 Oct 2004 10:45:58 GMT

    In article <417f5f1f$0$33632$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>, Beardy <beardy@beardy.net> writes:
    > Christian Kier wrote:
    > > Juhan Leemet wrote:
    > > > I learned the very useful command (here in one of these Sun newsgroups):
    > >
    > >>
    > >> iostat -nE
    > >>
    > >> tells you about all SCSI (all I have, and others?) devices, including
    > >> disks, CDs, tapes. Lists info about each device, like so:
    > >
    > >
    > > Thank you all for your hints. Every named tool works fine. But the disk
    > > didn't show up anywhere. Not in format, scsiinfo, iostat, prtconf,
    > > prtvtoc,...
    > > Not until I created the soft links in /dev/dsk/c2t2... and
    > > /dev/rdsk/c2t2... to the corresponding /devices/ files.
    > > Now it shows up in every tool properly formatted and everything like all
    > > the other disks. Does this tell me something? Is there a reason for
    > > these soft links not being present?? Do I have to check anything first
    > > or can I start working with this disk as normal?
    > >
    > > /Christian
    >
    > This suggests that the disk was a later addition to the system, and that
    > there has not been a reconfiguration boot since its addition. From
    > OBP, you could have done a boot -r, or to constitute the device files
    > and links, you could have done drvconfig;disks. You could also touch a
    > file called /reconfigure and do a normal boot.
    >

    In addition to "boot -r" or "reboot -- -r" (old way),
    Solaris 2.6 has the following commands:

    drvconfig
    disks

    (RTFM!)

    Since Solaris 8 there is one command for everything:

    devfsadm 

    -- 
Michael Tosch
IT Specialist
HP Managed Services
Technology Solutions Group
Hewlett-Packard GmbH
Phone: +49 2407 575 313
Mail: michael.tosch:hp.com
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