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To: "Sheryl A. Campbell" <campbell_at_lvc.edu>
Subject: Re: Q: Adding a disk drive
References: <2.2.16.19970710151635.4bdf52c0_at_mail.lvc.edu>
From: Erik Persson <erik_at_lysator.liu.se>
Date: 11 Jul 1997 14:17:20 +0200
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As long as you haven't added the disk to a new controller Digital Unix
should be very able to probe and register any new drives on an known
controller. I guess that a defective drive also might get disabled
upon boot and produce this kind of confusedness. So much for natural
causes.
If the above requirements are met, I cannot think about very many
options in the "stupid" category, but here's one:
Are you sure that this drive gets recognized as rz10 and not somethnig
else? With MAKEDEV you can create device files for anything - even if
isn't even present on the system.
Take a look at (the end of) /var/adm/messages and you should probably
find the answer to that and to the question of wether the disk gets
recognized at all.
Bye,
/Erik
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From: "Raymond A. Browder" <browder_at_det.dec.com>
To: "'Sheryl A. Campbell'" <campbell_at_lvc.edu>
Cc: "'Raymond Browder'" <browder_at_det.dec.com>
Subject: RE: Adding a disk drive
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:22:49 -0400
Hi Sheryl,
You gave the command as:
disklabel -rw rz10 scratch1
I've believe it should be:
disklabel -rw /dev/rrz10c rz29
That should work.
Ray
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To: "Sheryl A. Campbell" <campbell_at_lvc.edu>
cc: oisin_at_sbcm.com
Subject: Re: Q: Adding a disk drive
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 08:48:06 -0400
From: Oisin McGuinness <oisin_at_sbcm.com>
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You don't say what kind of alpha, or what version of the OS. Versions 3.2
require adding lines to the kernel config file to see drives; versions 4.x
will dynamically
recognize the disk on boot and do the MAKEDEV for you.
Also, if you're using a StorageWorks array, sometimes they are in a split
bus mode, where
the numbers are not what one expects....
If you send me the console level stuff, and the uerf -R output showing
the boot messages, I can offer more ideas, perhaps half-baked :-)
Oisin McGuinness
Sumitomo Bank Capital Markets
277 Park Avenue
New York NY 10172
USA
(212)-224-4913, email: oisin_at_sbcm.com
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 09:14:48 PST
From: "Carlos Dagnino M" <carlos.dagnino_at_consorcio.cl>
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To: "Sheryl A. Campbell" <campbell_at_lvc.edu>
Subject: Re: Q: Adding a disk drive
Hi Sheryl:
After the disk instalation you have to define the device in
/sys/conf/HOST file and run doconfig -c HOST command. Copy the new
vmunix created at /sys/HOST directory to / (root) and reboot with
shutdown -r now.
If you want to create file systems you can do it with :
disklabel -er rz10 command.
To create filesystems use :
newfs /dev/rrz10c rz29 command (rrz10c is an example to create c
partition )
To mount the filesystem you have to create the mount point directory,
for example, mkdir alpha; and finally mount /dev/rz10c /alpha
command.
Oh, something else! ... you have to include the new filesystems in
/etc/fstab file to mount them at future reboots.
I hope this be helpful for you.
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To: "Sheryl A. Campbell" <campbell_at_lvc.edu>
Subject: Re: Q: Adding a disk drive
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 09:07:41 -0400
From: "Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-881-0646" <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
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> Help! What are we missing? We've added drives before ... it's got to be
> something stupid! Please, pull us out of this mire of despair!! Okay, that's
> a little melodramatic, but ... hey, what's a little fun between all these
> gray hairs!!
Everything you've done looks right.
What version of Digital UNIX?
What does # file /dev/rrz10a tell you?
What does # file /dev/rrz10c tell you?
If you're running V4.0x, when you booted the system, did it find the disk at
that address during probe? That is, was the device reported in the list of
devices?
And rz10 would be on your second SCSI bus -- do you have two controllers?
Are there any other devices on that controller that work? If this is a wide
drive, you need to understand that even with wide drives, all the drives
have to be at unit numbers below 8 -- only 0-7 work, if you've got a wide
drive set to a higher unit number, Digital UNIX won't be able to find it or
use it, even if the console sees it.
Tom
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn, UNIX Software Group, Digital Equipment Corporation
110 Spit Brook Road, MS ZKO3-2/U20 Nashua, New Hampshire 03062-2698
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 09:53:15 -0500 (GMT-0500)
From: Hernando Barragan <damian_at_mox.uniandes.edu.co>
Subject: Re: Q: Adding a disk drive
To: "Sheryl A. Campbell" <campbell_at_lvc.edu>
Hi, i think you must include the new drive on the kernel configuration
file and then rebuild it, which OS version do you have?
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