Add driver on Solaris10, problems with SCSI/DAT

[marle]

Hi,

I am a newbie on solaris. But i have to do some tests. Therefore my questions:

I installed solaris10 on a celsius pc. I build in a scsi pci card. I connected a dat drive. Now I find no hardware device for this dat.With the command cfgadm i can only see the usb devices. So it is necessary to add the driver for this scsi card?Where i can do this?

Thanks for your help!!!

 

[bfitzmai]

Did you do a reconfiguration boot after installing the hardware? From the ok# prompt run "boot -r

 

[marle]

Hi,

thanks for your help.
I work with CDE and if I open a console and type in boot -r the system can not find the command, which boot can also not find the boot command in any paths.

Regards
marle

 

[marrow]

Try this

reboot -- -r

 

[bfitzmai]

Not from a console screen... From the ok# prompt... Better yet... Login as root, enter command: touch reconfigure. Enter command: init 6.

 

[marle]

hi marrow,

the command reboot -- -r is working. But i have after the reboot also no hardware devices.Is on solaris a command like ioscan where i can see the build in hardware ?My /dev/rmt is a empty directory.

marle

 

[marrow]

Hello marle, this command "reboot -- -r" is the same as bfitzmai recommended without going to the ok> prompt. I have just run it on a test system and it causes no problems.

You have run previously run the following cmd, add these options as well: -

cfgadm –v -al (similar to a "probe-scsi-all" will list all scsi devices)

or

From the OK> prompt, you can run the following:
OK>help setenv # check auto-boot settings
OK>setenv auto-boot? false # if not already false

OK>probe-scsi-all # this will list all hardware

When you are done: -
OK>setenv auto-boot? true

 

[marle]

I have installed the system with build in scsi card and conected DAT. Now I have a /dev/rmt directory with 0,0b,... links. But the targets of this links are not existing? Whats the problem?

cfgadm find again only the usb devices. Also no disks,is this normal?

@marrow
I dont understand what the ok prompt is. If I open a console I get a '#' as prompt. Is there a special procedure to boot in this prompt?

marle

 

[marrow]

On a normal Solaris system "init 0" will close your system down to the OK> prompt. From here you can choose an option:-

>boot (startup system)
>boot -s (goto single user mode for maintenance)
>boot cdrom -s (single user mode without loading your filesystems)
>boot cdrom (build a new o/s)
>sync (boot and resync the super block - a tidy-up)
>help
>probe-scsi-all (list your hardware)