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Muhsin Mahmud

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Dec 5, 2001, 11:38:46 PM12/5/01
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Hi all,

A simple question for the Solaris gurus. I'm a newbie at Solaris system
admin.

a. I use a SPARCstation 5 with Solaris 2.4
b. Recently got an external SCSI II hard drive
c. Connected it to the workstation using a SCSI to SCSI II cable
d. Hard drive is SCSI ID 4
e. Reboot workstation with the reconfigure option so that /dev/dsk has
c0t4d0s0 thru c0t4d0s7
f. I did a newfs to do something to the hard drive
g. I tried to do format but keep getting error...
h. Now what do I do?

Appreciate any help on this simple thing...kinda a waste to have a
storage device
sitting on my deck but unable to access it.

Jonathan Hays

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Dec 6, 2001, 12:39:45 AM12/6/01
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Would you please post the exact error?

Believe it or not, Solaris has more than one error message!
;-)

Chris Newport

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Dec 6, 2001, 4:34:28 AM12/6/01
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Muhsin Mahmud wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> A simple question for the Solaris gurus. I'm a newbie at Solaris system
> admin.
>
> a. I use a SPARCstation 5 with Solaris 2.4
> b. Recently got an external SCSI II hard drive
> c. Connected it to the workstation using a SCSI to SCSI II cable
> d. Hard drive is SCSI ID 4
> e. Reboot workstation with the reconfigure option so that /dev/dsk has
> c0t4d0s0 thru c0t4d0s7
> f. I did a newfs to do something to the hard drive
> g. I tried to do format but keep getting error...
> h. Now what do I do?

Use SCSI ID 0 1 or 2 because ID 4 is reserved for a tape drive.
Your internal drive should be ID 3

Then boot -r and all should be OK.

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