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Old 12-20-2008
Adding a new drive
I have a new drive of 150gb which i have installed physically. But my solaris 10 x85-64 bit is not seeing it when i use the format command.

I have intel as my cpu pls can solmeone give a step by step guide on how this is done
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Old 12-20-2008
FIrst you need to make the system aware of the disk
Code:
# devfsadm

I cant remember if this will make the disk show up in format, but even if it does it will most likely not be usable.

The you need to create the fdisk partition. If you want to use the whole disk as an SMI disk you can use
Code:
# fdisk -B /dev/rdsk/cXtYp0

or for EFI
Code:
# fdisk -E  /dev/rdsk/cXtYp0

Then the disk should show up usable in format
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