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Moving scsi disk to new controller
Name: paul0al Date: October 25, 2004 at 17:25:45 Pacific OS: Solaris 9 CPU/Ram: Sparc
Comment:
According to cfgadm -l, the Solaris machine has 3 SCSI controllers. One is used by the cd rom. The second is used by the 4 disks. The other is not used at all.
How do I move a SCSI device from on controller to another controller? I tried cfgadm -x remove_device c1::dsk/c1t3d0, but it failed because c1 contains the / partition.
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