Solaris

confirm that the disks are not visible by running "format < /dev/null" ...

if they are all there, then you just need to either add them as mirrors or as separate disk devices with their own mount points ... see "man newfs," "man mount," "man metainit," "man metattach," "man metadb" for more options ...


good luck!

You might also want to run man format if your not sure about how to partition up a disk..
The basic steps are:
format
- select a disk
- partition the disk
- label the disk

newfs
- create a ufs

mount
- mount the filesystem

vi /etc/vfstab and add the partition so that it mounts after any reboots.

If after running format you do not see all your disks try running devfsadm and then run format again.

Thomas, you need to check the disks visible form a hardware perspective first.

Boot the machine and watch for memory check. You need to stop the boot process, this is normally done using STOP+A keys but you are not on a Sun Keyboard, think it is the "ESC" or "BREAK" key?
You should get an OK prompt.
Type probe-scsi
It should list all the available disks:-
Target 0
Unit 1
Target 1
Unit 1
etc

In your case there should be 4. Assuming you can see four then enter boot

Follow the instructions given by people above for formatting and creating file systems.

Doing this could cause your system to hang on the probe-scsi command.
The correct way would be after the Stop+A set auto-boot?=false then type reset-all Once that is done you can run your probe command.

But try devfsadm first and then if you still can't see the disks with a format try running the probe-scsi command from the prom level, but only after setting auto-boot to false and running reset-all

Yep tornado you are right it could. I left that out to avoid confusion and to try to keep it simple. If a reset-all is required the system will tell you

Here's an alternative to probe-scsi..
Its an OS level probe-scsi..

ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/scs...iinfo-4.7.shar

The README file is available here:
ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/scsiinfo/README

The installation should have detected all disks on the initial setup. not sure why it wouldnt be showing up after the install.

try 2 things.

'devfsadm'

and

'disks'