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Old 06-02-2006
New hdd not being recognised properly by OS

I've just replaced the secondary disk drive (was 4 Gb) with a Seagate Barracuda 7200 200 Gb. However the OS seems to think this is only 500 Mb and a spin speed of 5400, although it correctly recognises the drive as Seagate ST3200822A.

I take it that it still thinks the old drive is attached. How do I get it to recognise this new drive??

The other drive has been left as the master with the OS installed.

Box is - SUN Ultra 5/10 Model 440
Unix is - SunOS 5.8
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Old 06-03-2006
You can boot -r, or use devfsadm

Quote:
From Sunsolve:
Beginning with the Solaris 8 OS, and subsequent OS releases, the devfsadm
command can be used instead of drvconfig. Drvconfig and other commands,
such as disks, ports are symbolic links to devfsadm.

Devfsadm loads every driver in the system and attaches to all possible
device instances. Devfsadm then creates the /devices directory and the
logical links in the /dev directory when the command is run alone and
without any options:

#devfsadm

To restrict the use of the devfsadm command to a specific device class, use
the -c option:

#devfsadm -c device_class
 
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