Software Installation Of The Hard Disk Drive Upgrade - HP 9000 Series Owner's Manual

Configuring for a Hard Disk Drive
Hard disk drive upgrades can be installed to accommodate local le systems
and swap space on your workstation.

Software Installation of the Hard Disk Drive Upgrade

After hardware installation has been completed (see the
this device), you'll need to ensure that your operating system is prepared to
exchange data with the device. This section provides instructions for manually
con guring HP-UX to communicate with hard disk drive upgrades, in order to
use the disks for mass storage and/or swap space. Note that your HP disk is
pre-formatted.
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The factory-set SCSI bus address for the disk drive:
For an upgrade disk drive: SCSI bus address:
This SCSI address assumes usage of the disk as
con guration jumpers in the back of the drive are factory-installed and should
not require recon guring, it is possible that the SCSI bus address jumpers for
an upgrade may be shipped with di erent settings. Therefore, please see the
Installation Guide for the drive for the procedure for resetting jumpers, should
it be necessary.
The following list outlines the software procedures you'll nd in this section for
installing the hard disk drive as a le system disk:
Verify that you have an unused device le with the correct select code and
bus address for your device. (Use SAM or the script in \Finding the Status
of Existing SCSI Bus Addresses").
Use SAM to:
Install a disk on HP-UX.
Build a le system on the disk (done automatically by SAM).
Mount the disk so that you can access it as a le system.
5-10 Configuring HP-UX for Printers and Drives
Although the device is well-protected from physical shock when
installed in the workstation, it is very easily damaged when
separate. Avoid dropping or striking a device.
Installation Guide for
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