I guess Cassandra was right

Nice article from BBC eplaining the subprime market :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7086909.stm

Adding drives to solaris.

Sun standard procedure form the administration manual involves a reboot. Almost all new systems suport hotplug , so why bother with a reconfigure reboot ?
From http://kerneltrap.org/node/2058

Title   : Adding New Hard Disk
Os      : Unix
Distro  : Solaris 9 x86
URL     : http://


Solaris 9 x86 Disk Controller Table

IDE

/dev/rdsk/c0d0s0~7Primary IDE Master
/dev/rdsk/c0d1s0~7Primary IDE Slave
/dev/rdsk/c1d0s0~7Secondary IDE Master
/dev/rdsk/c1d1s0~7Secondary IDE Slave

SCSI

/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0~7First SCSI ?No 0 ? Disk Drive
/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0~7First SCSI ?No 1 ? Disk Drive
/dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s0~7First SCSI ?No 2 ? Disk Drive
/dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0~7First SCSI ?No 3 ? Disk Drive
/dev/rdsk/c0t4d0s0~7First SCSI ?No 4 ? Disk Drive
/dev/rdsk/c0t5d0s0~7First SCSI ?No 5 ? Disk Drive
/dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s0~7First SCSI ?No 6 ? Disk Drive
/dev/rdsk/c0t7d0s0~7First SCSI ?No 7 ? Disk Drive

After Putting In New HDD Login as root.

# drvconfig ( configure the /devices directory )
# disks ( creates /dev entries for hard disks attached to the system )
# format
Searching for disks...done

AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0d0
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
1. c1t6d0
/pci@0,0/pci9004,8178@f/sd@6,0
Specify disk (enter its number): ** Select Your New Drive **

AVAILABLE DRIVE TYPES:
0. other
1. default
Specify disk type (enter its number): **Select One **

format>fdisk
No fdisk table exists. The default partition for the disk is:

a 100% "SOLARIS System" partition

Type "y" to accept the default partition, otherwise type "n" to edit the
partition table.
y

WARNING: Solaris fdisk partition changed - Please relabel the disk
format>fdisk

Select the partition type to create:
1=SOLARIS2=UNIX3=PCIXOS4=Other
5=DOS126=DOS167=DOSEXT8=DOSBIG
9=DOS16LBAA=x86 BootB=DiagnosticC=FAT32
D=FAT32LBAE=DOSEXTLBA0=Exit? 1

Specify the percentage of disk to use for this partition
(or type "c" to specify the size in cylinders). 100

Should this become the active partition? If yes, it will be activated
each time the computer is reset or turned on.
Please type "y" or "n". n

WARNING: Solaris fdisk partition changed - Please relabel the disk

format> partition


PARTITION MENU:
0 - change `0' partition
1 - change `1' partition
2 - change `2' partition
3 - change `3' partition
4 - change `4' partition
5 - change `5' partition
6 - change `6' partition
7 - change `7' partition
select - select a predefined table
modify - modify a predefined partition table
name - name the current table
print - display the current table
label - write partition map and label to the disk
! - execute , then return
quit
partition> print
Current partition table (cyl):
Total disk cylinders available: 25229 + 2 (reserved cylinders)


partition> **Edit Part 0**
partition> print


partition> label
Ready to label disk, continue? y

partition> quit
format> label
Ready to label disk, continue? y
format> quit

# newfs /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0
# mkdir  /mnt/newhdd
# echo "/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 /mnt/newhd ufs 1 yes -" >> vfstab

# touch /reconfigure

Yay!!!