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Old 12-01-2006
Error Error after installing 2nd hard disk on Solaris 10?
I installed Solaris 10 on this Dell 5150 with only 1 SATA hard drive setup, all went well, and I could view the disk in the disk management window.

However, I setup a 2nd hard drive, identical to 1st drive. Solaris wont recognize it and gives an error when trying to view disks in disk management window?

How do you setup a 2nd hard disk for mirroring on Solaris? Are there some command line utilities that work when the disk management window will not?

Thanks,
Jon
# 2  
Old 12-03-2006
did you run devfsadm ?
# 3  
Old 12-03-2006
Error No Solaris Fdisk Partition error in Management Console?
I tried the "devfsadm" command and it allowed me to see the 2nd disk in the Management Console, however when I click on a disk in the right window-pane I get an error saying "Warning: No Solaris Fdisk Partition", and it says click Continue and it will destroy any existing data on the disk?

My disk#0 has MSWindows and Solaris on it, I don't want to destroy all data on that disk!

My disk#1 is blank, and when I click "Continue" to create a Solaris Fdisk partition, it just hangs, and I can't view the disks anymore?

Thanks for the help,
Jon
# 4  
Old 12-04-2006
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Originally Posted by Joncamp
I tried the "devfsadm" command and it allowed me to see the 2nd disk in the Management Console, however when I click on a disk in the right window-pane I get an error saying "Warning: No Solaris Fdisk Partition", and it says click Continue and it will destroy any existing data on the disk?

My disk#0 has MSWindows and Solaris on it, I don't want to destroy all data on that disk!

My disk#1 is blank, and when I click "Continue" to create a Solaris Fdisk partition, it just hangs, and I can't view the disks anymore?

Thanks for the help,
Jon
you can use format command and select the new harddisk and use fdisk to create new partitions as you want.
# 5  
Old 02-23-2009
login in command prompt

use iostat -en to see any hardware errors related to harddisk.

use format command select your 2nd harddisk, then select fdisk create a solaris partition..

then run newfs command to create a ufs filesystem...

then mount that partition in a folder then only you can access that harddisk....
# 6  
Old 02-23-2009
the thread is over 2 years old... i'll close it down for now. if the op still needs help, please contact me via pm and i'll reopen this thread!
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