raw drive not detected next to installed drive
 

I installed Solaris 8 on disk1 of Sunv240.

I poweroff the machine and insert an additional RAW disk in disk0 and reboot the machine.


off course the eeprom boot setting is set to disk1 (=disk with installed OS)


After boot I launch the format command, but my new disk (0) is not detected. It only displays the disk with installed OS.



Is this normal behaviour ? Should format also detect the RAW disk or can it only detects non-RAW disks ?



Tnx in advance.

I solved the problem myself.

After inserting the 2nd disk I typed :
reboot -- -r.

So reboot space dash dash space dash r

this means that during reboot the machine will probe for new inserted scsi disks.

Apparantly, if you type shutdown -y -g0 -i5 then the machine will not probe for new scsi devices, resulting that the format command does not see the devices.

Scary !

that's why its always better to boot the system from

ok prompt

ok boot -r (reconfiguration mode)

when we have added new peripheric or devices


or reboot -- -r ( anyhow this pass -r parameter to ok prompt )

You can actually do all that without rebooting the machine.
"man devfsadm"
perhaps with solaris 8, still "man disks drvconfig"