Does anyone know the command and syntax to add a hard disk to my SUN machine in solaris 8? appreciate it.

in a sparc system... # touch /reconfigure # init 5 physically add the disk and boot up (if you're already shut down, then add the disk and "boot -r" from the OK prompt # format choose the new disk and slice it up how you want it # newfs /dev/rdsk/c2t2d0s6 (or whatever it is) # mkdir /mountpoint # mount /dev/dsk/c2t2d0s6 /mountpoint add the details to /etc/vfstab making sure you follow the format of the file

i have the same type problem, except i am doing a clean install of solaris with a new seagate ST19171N 9.1gig drive in a solaris sparcstation 10 with obp 2.25 i did the probe-scsi and it finds the drive, then i did the boot -r. the i did the boot cdrom and it started the solaris install and gets to the webstart 3.0 (solaris 8). at this point, the web start says there are no drives available and kicks me out to a # root promt. so i ran format, it shows the drive as option 0, i choose it and set the drive type with 5272 cyls w/ 2 reserved, 20 heads, and 168 sectors per track as per seagates site. then i partition the drive and make my slices, i have been starting at cyl 1 to avoid the vtoc. i name the drive "original" but when i try to label the drive it says the drive is unformatted. so i go back to the format menu and save the partition info to /etc/format.dat, and then format the drive. after the format is finished, it gives several errors about illegal ops during the format command with seagate. also, the labe command still give errors about corrupt label - bad magic number. any help would be appreciated. i have scoured the net looking for all the info i can find, but nothing has worked. thx.

Check disk drive terminators. Wrong termination can cause BIG problems...

i inherited a sparkstation 5 with 2 1Gig H/Ds, and would like to add 2 more. It looks like there is enough space, but the only connector i see available looks like it fits something like a ATAPI cdrom or other device. Is there a ribbon or "y" device that i can use to "t" off of my existing H/D connectors, or ...?? thanks in advance! Ralph