How do I add a Cheetah external hard drive to Brisque

[dannyz]

We have an Seagate Cheetah 73GB Ultra160 SCSI that just crapped out on us. Does anybody know how to add and format a newer drive? Creo or should iI say Kodak wants an arm & a leg for installing a new drive.

[mattbeals]

Oh god... I did this very same thing for a couple of Brisques running v3 and v4. It wasn't very hard to do, neither was the RAM. It didn't take long at all, it was almost all done in SMIT. Speaking of SMIT, SCISMIT and Brisque, can't they update Gnome or use KDE??? This function is so much easier in more recent versions of Gnome or KDE...

But I digress. If I can find my notes from when I did this I will post them.

[trzmielina]

Do you still need help with this topic?

Ricardo Trzmielina

[pwydler]

Open up the brisque then connect it to the scsi cable and to the power supply then close it turn it on and at the console login type root enter and thenripro enter then at # type diag -a then the dialog will tell you it found the disk type enter and then go to scismit devices and configure new disk type F4 when done type F3 end then exit and login normally you will find your disk in the data volumes.

[trzmielina]

I would recommend you to remove the definitions of the previous drive, otherwise the Brisque will retain the config/drive number (e.g. brisqueX.2.0).

#lsdev -Csscsi

look for the drive that will be "defined" instead of "available" (e.g. hdisk2). Check its SCSI details (e.g. 10-30-xx).

#lspv

Check if the same drive (10-30-xx) matches with the svg number that is now missing since the drive went down (eg svg2). Normally, the svg number matches the mounting point (brisquex.2.0). Not always, though.

#rmdev -l hdisk2 -d

Be careful, since if you delete the wrong drive you will end up losing your files...

#cd /dataVolumes
#rm -r brisquex.2.0

Run the procedure described on the posting above.

If you do not care about having a bad mounting point, then disregard this e-mail. The only thing is that if by accident you copy a file to it, you will end up having the root directory (/) full...

Ricardo Trzmielina