Re: Disk drive defect on Enterprise 450?

From: Beardy (beardy_at_beardy.net)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:01:36 +0000

Michael Tosch wrote:
> 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, are you correcting me with things that I have already stated?
(exceot the reboot command, which is in fact not an "old way", but
perfectly current). Or are you addressing the OP? If the latter, then
please reply to him, not me. If the former, then please don't do so. The
OP has 2.6, so mentioning devfsadm is not relevant.

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