Solaris

I just added a new disk i suppose the disk is not supported by sun solaris pls can someone advice on what i can do.
pls see below:

Code:

# format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c1d0 <DEFAULT cyl 15934 alt 2 hd 255 sec 126>
          /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
       1. c1d1 <drive type unknown>
          /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@1,0
Specify disk (enter its number):

Sparc or x86? It looks like x86, so

Code:

fdisk -B /dev/rdsk/c1d1p0
devfsadm

Should get it working.

looks like x86 to me. the disk isn't labeled yet. under format, select disk 1, type verify, and post that output.

The above got it working. i appreciate it.

just for the sake of others, fdisk -B /dev/rdsk/<disk> will default to one Solaris partition that uses the whole disk.

And for completeness

Code:

fdisk -E /dev/rdsk/<disk>

Will do the same, but the partition will be EFI instead of Solaris.

Hi Reborg, I have the same "Drive type unkown" showing up on a solaris 10 sparc system. This disk is a snapshot disk (snapshot of disk on server A is now attached to ServerB) from another solaris server that I attached to the new server; so, i cannot format it, i have to mount this and use the data on it.

any ideas to do this mount without having to format it?


-ilan