new secondary disk

seyiisq · December 22, 2008, 10:48am

I just added a new disk i suppose the disk is not supported by sun solaris pls can someone advice on what i can do.
pls see below:

# format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c1d0 <DEFAULT cyl 15934 alt 2 hd 255 sec 126>
          /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
       1. c1d1 <drive type unknown>
          /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@1,0
Specify disk (enter its number):

reborg · December 22, 2008, 10:56am

Sparc or x86? It looks like x86, so

fdisk -B /dev/rdsk/c1d1p0
devfsadm

Should get it working.

pupp · December 22, 2008, 11:04am

looks like x86 to me. the disk isn't labeled yet. under format, select disk 1, type verify, and post that output.

seyiisq · December 23, 2008, 5:24am

The above got it working. i appreciate it.

pupp · December 23, 2008, 11:11am

just for the sake of others, fdisk -B /dev/rdsk/<disk> will default to one Solaris partition that uses the whole disk.

reborg · December 23, 2008, 11:32am

And for completeness

fdisk -E /dev/rdsk/<disk>

Will do the same, but the partition will be EFI instead of Solaris.

ilan · December 23, 2008, 12:43pm

Hi Reborg, I have the same "Drive type unkown" showing up on a solaris 10 sparc system. This disk is a snapshot disk (snapshot of disk on server A is now attached to ServerB) from another solaris server that I attached to the new server; so, i cannot format it, i have to mount this and use the data on it.

any ideas to do this mount without having to format it?

-ilan