What to do, Become superuser or the root user, Insert the drive into its disk drive bay – Sun Microsystems SUN FIRE 280R User Manual

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Chapter 5

Using and Servicing Internal Storage Devices

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You must follow antistatic precautions when handling a disk drive. Complete
this task:

■

What to Do

1. Become superuser or the root user.

2. Insert the drive into its disk drive bay.

Follow Step 2 through Step 10 of “How to Install a Disk Drive” on page 125. The
system responds with the following message.

3. Type the

command to list the current system’s

c1t1d*

devices.

The output confirms there are no links present for the inserted drive.

4. Type the following

devfsadm -C

command to initialize

devfsadm

device driver

links:

Note –

The default

devfsadm

operation is to attempt to load every driver in the

system and attach the drivers to all possible device instances.

devfsadm

then

creates device special files in

/devices

and logical links in

/dev

. The

-C

option

also removes any dangling links.

% su

Password:

picld[87]: Device DISK1 inserted

# ls /dev/rdsk/c1t1d*

No match

# devfsadm -C