Thanks to all for replying so promptly! Muchly appreciated. I followed the
following advice on our test Alpha
and it now thinks it has 8 Exabyte drives attached! (Unfortunately, the
trucluster has now lost the plot!)
Here are 2 replies, both of which helped.
Thanks to Robert Mulley for this advise:
After adding new controllers you must update the /sys/conf/MACHINENAME kernel
config file. Best way to do this is boot off the genvmunix kernel. ie at the
boot prompt type:
P00>> b -file genvmunix
Then after that has booted at a command line run the command:
sizer -m /tmp/tmp.conf
which will create a new kernel config file for you. Then either replace your
current config with this file or cut the relevant bit out of this file. The
relevant lines say thing like:
bus psiop0 at pci0 slot 5 vector psiopintr
controller scsi1 at psiop0 slot 2
then rebuild the kernel, copy it into place and reboot. Upon reboot it should
recognise the new controller and create the device file for any new drives.
And thanks to Serge.P for this response:
You *must* boot the generic kernel (boot -fi genvmunix) and then
reconfigure your kernel manually. Unless you customized your kernel
previously, simple 'doconfig -a' after booting genvmunix should do.
Alternatively, do 'sizer -n' after booting generic kernel, examine
kernel config files this will generate, change config files by hand
and then run 'doconfig -c' (this is what I usually do).
Regards, Ruth Belin
ruth.belin_at_nt.gov.au
Received on Sun Jun 27 1999 - 04:44:33 NZST