How to Add a Peripheral Device for Solaris

Become superuser:




    # /bin/su

    

Create the /reconfigure file:




    # touch /reconfigure

    

Shut down the system:




    # init 5

    

Turn off power to all external devices




Install the peripheral device making sure the device you are adding has a different target number than the other devices on the system.




Turn on the power to the system




Verify that the peripheral device has been added by attempting to access the device.

Additional Info:

You can also do the following additional things to verify that the installation worked:

Power-on system and interrupt the booting process by pressing "stop" and the "a" key simultaneously as soon as the Solaris release number is shown. At the "OK" prompt type the following command:

show devs

To check to see that the SCSI devices are all working correctly type the following at the "OK" prompt:

probe-scsi-all

This command will report each SCSI device it finds attached to each SCSI bus in the system.