How To Install A Disk Drive Using The Hot-Plug Operation; Before You Begin - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V490 Parts Installation And Removal Manual

How to Install a Disk Drive Using the
Hot-Plug Operation
The system's disk hot-plug feature enables you to insert a disk drive without
shutting down the operating system or turning off the system power. When
installing a disk, you must insert the disk drive and wait for it to spin up to
operating speed. Then you create logical software links to the disk drive, and
re-create or reconfigure the file systems so that the Solaris Operating System
recognizes the disk drive. Finally you configure your application (if necessary) to
operate with this new drive.
Use the luxadm software tool to install a Sun Fire V490 server's internal disk drives
using the hot-plug operation. The following procedure describes the general steps
involved, but your specific device names may be different.
For more information, refer to Platform Notes: Using luxadm Software, which is
provided on the Solaris Software Supplement CD for the Solaris release you are
running.
Refer also to the luxadm(1M) man page.
Caution – Do not hot-plug drives without the correct preparations. The system
supports hot-plugging disk drives, but there are software procedures that you must
perform before you remove or install any drive.

Before You Begin

If you have not configured the system with two boot disks, you cannot hot-plug a
single boot disk. You can only hot-plug the boot disk if you have configured a two-
disk mirror of the boot disk for hot-plugging. If the system is configured with a boot
disk and a data disk, you can hot-plug the data disk, but not the boot disk.
You must follow antistatic precautions when handling a disk drive. Complete
this task:
"How to Avoid Electrostatic Discharge" on page 41
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