replacing a hard drive

[shaan00]

I had a hard drive crash on a Enterprise 250 box. It was one of six drives and contained data only. I put in the new hardrive but cant see it. How do I set up the new hard drive.
Shaan

 

[kahn630]

run devfsadm

 

[bfitzmai]

Other ways of doing this if you are not running Solaris 8 or greater.

touch /reconfigure
init 6

or

From the ok> prompt, boot -r

 

[shaan00]

I tried a boot -r but still nuthing. and devfsadm

 

[bfitzmai]

What are you trying to do when you say "still nothing"? You may have to format the new disk... You also have to put a file system on the disk. You need to know how you want to partition the new disk. Partitioning is done through the format command. Creating a file system is done with the newfs command. If you need help doing this, let us know.

 

[KenCunningham]

And what about the data? Do you have a backup, and/or was the disk mirrored? Does the new disk show up in format?

 

[KenCunningham]

Have you confirmed that the new disk is compatible? I know someone has suggested devfsadm above, but have you tried /usr/sbin/disks instead?

 

[KenCunningham]

Strange - I posted my latest after having read Shaan's last message, but it appears before it!

 

[shaan00]

In format only 5 drives are listed. The sixth (c0t9d0) is not listed.
There is no backup and it was not a mirrored drive.
format listings.
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t0d0 <SUN9.0G cyl 4924 alt 2 hd 27 sec 133>
/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0
1. c0t8d0 <SUN9.0G cyl 4924 alt 2 hd 27 sec 133>
/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@8,0
2. c0t10d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@a,0
3. c0t11d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@b,0
4. c0t12d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@c,0
Specify disk (enter its number):


Shaan

 

[bfitzmai]

Okay lets get some basic information.. What Operating System are you using. By the hard drives you have listed, my guess would be Solaris 2.6. If this is true, there is a hard drive size limitation with Solaris 2.6. 9 GB is the OS documented limit. Seagate came out with a 18GB Drive with firmware that allowed it to run with Solaris 2.6.

 

[shaan00]

I am using solaris 8

 

[bfitzmai]

Well, that kills that idea. When you open up the front cover of the E250, does Disk(2) have a green light. If not, try reseating it. No need to power down, The drives are hot swappable.

If you have a green light, try this...

From the ok> prompt:

setenv auto-boot? false
reset-all

When the ok> prompt returns:

probe-scsi-all

Does the probe-scsi-all see the disk?

Don't forget to so set auto-boot? back to true.

 

[shaan00]

bfitzmai and others,

I saw this suggestion on an early post, I tried it and did not see the drive although i had a green light on it.
I have tried using different drives and still nuthing.
I put the box back into service the 5 drives, could not delay any longer.

Thank you all for your help
Shaan

 

[KenCunningham]

If none of the other disks worked either perhaps it's a dodgy interface.