Adding new disk to SCO box

[David Kosenko]

Running SCO 5 at work on a Dell Dimension. I was requested to add an additional
drive to the box (I did not do the original install, btw). According to the SCO
docs, I should have been able to add the drive, reboot, and run a command (mkdev
hd) to configure the new drive. It is the slave drive on the primary IDE, and
the BIOS recognizes it at bootup. But when I run the mkdev hd, and it gets to
the fdisk portion of the script, it tells me there is no device for the disk.
Is the slave drive on the primary ide not disk 2, controller 0? I also tried
disk 1 (thinking disks 0 & 1) on controller 0 and controller 1. The devices
just aren't there (and don't seem to get created) in /dev/rdsk, which is what
fdisk is trying to open. Is there some additional step I have to take here?
Were it a Sun box, I'd just run a boot -r to find new devices and build the
driver files, but I'm at a loss as to how to do this on a SCO box.

Thanks much,
Dave

[John Gray]

David Kosenko wrote:

Which release of OSR 5 are you running? If it is 5.05 try running
/etc/ideMap.
"1 0 0 0" string
| | | +-------Secondary IDE Controller Slave device
| | +--------Secondary IDE Controller Master device
| +--------- Primary IDE Controller Slave device
+---------- Primary IDE Controller Master device

This can tell you what the driver saw.

-johng