How to scan newly added disks to system?
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Answer / amit shiknis
'devfsadm' command can be used to scan new disks attached
to your system.
Thanks,
Amit Shiknis
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Answer / das
You can use # touch /reconfigure
or
ok boot -r
or
#devfsadm
Scan the new device on your system and creates the links
in /dev, /devices and /etc/path_to_inst
Hope it helps ...
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Answer / p.r.l.prasanna
1 after booting the system that means you are at the root prompt
enter below command
#devfsadm
2 you are in ok prompt then enter below command
#b -r (or) boot -r
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Answer / arun
devfsadm -Cv
(for scanning the new device without restating the system).
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Answer / reddy
offline
touch /reconfigure
init 6
online
devfsadm -Cv
hp unix
ioscan -funC disk
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Answer / amit
#devfsadm
is used if you do not want to reboot the system. and want
to detect new disk as well...
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Answer / fda
cfgadm -al should scan for new devices
devfsadm (-c disk) creates the devices
hpux if you pass the u to the ioscan, i believe this only queries what is in the kernel and wont give you new devices... also on hpux you may need to run insf -ec disk
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Answer / kkk
to scan the disks from the array mean u can use Format
.after that u can use devfsadm command then it will create
the device drivers for that disk and detects the disk from
the array .
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