I have an x86 Solaris 9 running with a 120 GB hard drive.  The cable is
an IDE cable.  How do I mount a second IDE hard drive onto this
computer?  Do I need to format that second drive after it's mounted?
If so, how?  Thanks in advance.

richardtyler2005@yahoo.com wrote:
> I have an x86 Solaris 9 running with a 120 GB hard drive.  The cable is
> an IDE cable.  How do I mount a second IDE hard drive onto this
> computer?  Do I need to format that second drive after it's mounted?
> If so, how?  Thanks in advance.
> 

Check the "man" pages for:

devfsadm   detect new hardware
fdisk      make solaris partition
format     partition and label
newfs      create file system
vfstab     mount at boot time
mount      mount manually

it should also be explained with examples at http://docs.sun.com

make sure you're jumpers are set correctly for the devices
(master/slave) break into the boot sequence then boot -r should pick up
disk you've just added.

D.