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Reboot with

        boot -r

at the ok prompt.  That should get the disks recognized.

Then run "format" to partition the disks, and "newfs" to construct a
file system on the slices thus created.

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devfsadm will do it without a reboot.

--
Geoff Lane
The use of unnecessary {*filter*} in the apprehension
of the Blues Brothers has been approved.

Plenty of documentation and examples at docs.sun.com

http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/805-7228/6j6q7uetk?a=view

man devfsadm

Mark

Like explain by the other posters, everytime you install new HW in a Sun
box you can enable the HW in atleast 3 ways.

1. # touch /reconfigure, then reboot
2. # halt the system, the boot -r from the Openboot prompt
3. # devfsadm for discs

1-2 also applies to all HW, network/graphic adapters and so.

If you will be using standard UFS filesystem, enable logging of all
filesystems to avoid long fsck when booting after a crash(that is if you
will have a crash) :)

After rebooted and done format on the 7 new disks, you need to do newfs
on the /dev/rdsk/c??? device for each one of them.

Then you must mount them on some place /export/d1-d7 maybe,
mkdir /export/d1
mount /dev/dsk/c??? /export/d1
and add them to /etc/vfstab

cheers

Michael

If system is running you can do "fsdevadm".  This normally works in
Solaris 8 to tell the system to rescan for available disks.  If not you
can do "reboot -- r".

Once the system is running you can do format to see available disks.
You will need to label the new disks to proceed further.  Steps from
here depend on what volume manager (if any) you are using.