> Sorry for this question, seems like its pretty basic to me but I could not
> find the answer in my Solaris Sys Admin books...
> I am want to add an external disk to my SparcStation 5 running Solaris
> 2.3. I will probably get one of the 1.5+GB drives that seem to be going
> for around $700/each now. I don't plan to buy an official "Sun" drive
> because of the price.
> I know I have to select an unused SCSI id and touching the right system
> file so that Solaris reconfigures itself on boot. But do I have to inform
> Solaris about the parameters of my drive prior to formating it? I noticed
> that the SunOS 4.1.x-ers are always looking for format.dat info for
> random drives. Is there something equivalent on the Solaris side? If so,
> is there an ftp site that maintains this info?
If you want to add it as additional disk simply format it with the
format utility. The disks know about their size and tell it the format
utility. I have done it with my Fujitsu disk (not in /etc/format.dat)
with success.
Only if you have a disk with rudimentary SCSI-interface, you can have problems,
but I think only in rare cases.
I had problems, as I tried to install Solaris 2.3 directly on the Fujitsu disk.
Then did the following:
boot from the Solaris 2.3 cdrom
open a new console window with the window-manager and
generate a new format.dat
replace /etc/format.dat with this new version:
mkdir /tmp/root-etc
copy /etc/* to /tmp/root-etc
copy the new format.dat to /tmp/root-etc
loopback-mount of /tmp/root-etc over /etc
then continue the installation in the installation window
and all runs fine.
Greetings,
Uli
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