Sun 280R, Solaris 5.8....
I have inserted a 2nd hard drive on my system. 'format' recognized the disk, but I cannot figure out how to access the disk. Any help is appreciated!
If you can see the disk in format then where is the issue, partition the slice, label it and then exit from format. Place ufs file system with newfs, put the entry in /etc/vfstab, mount it and use it
type these commands
# format
(select the disk)
#partition
#print
(give us the output)
THEN
select a slice that is not being used
for example slice4
#4
choose the size of the slice
#label
type y to confirm
quit out of the format utility
newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s4 <--whatever your disk is
NOW you can mount
mount /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s4 /mnt
I'm a pretty big newb myself, but I just performed those steps myself
when u have a new disk none of the slices are used. Usually s2 is the backup slice.
As an exercise you can put all on slice 0. After that you need to label your disk to store the configuration. Then put a new filesystem on the created slice 0
newfs /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
make an entry in the vfstab
vi /etc/vfstab
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 /test ufs 2 no -
create the mountpoint
mkdir /test
mount the new disk
mount /test