How To Install A Disk Drive Using The Hot-Plug Operation - Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V440 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 re-create or reconfigure the file systems so that the Solaris
environment recognizes the disk drive. Finally, you configure your application (if
necessary) to operate with this new drive.
Use the cfgadm command to install a Sun Fire V440 server's internal disk drives
using the hot-plug operation. The following procedure describes the general steps
involved, but your specific device names might be different.
The following procedure assumes that you are accessing the system console by the
default method of connecting to the serial management port (SERIAL MGT) of the
Sun Fire V440 server.
Caution – Do not hot-plug drives without the correct preparations. The system
supports hot-plugging disk drives, but you must issue a software command before
you remove or install a disk 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 when you have configured a
two-disk mirror of the boot disk for hot-plugging. If the system is configured with a
boot disk and data disks, you can hot-plug the data disks, but not the boot disk. For
more information on disk mirroring, see:
Sun Fire V440 Server Administration Guide
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