Adding a new device to Solaris Machine

Steps to be followed while adding a new device to solaris machine

1. Connect a tape drive, disk drive, or CD-ROM to the system and perform a reconfiguration reboot.

2. Reconfiguration reboot is done by using the commands boot -r or reboot -- -r . On rebooting the system it displays a login prompt.

3.  Log in and issue the dmesg command to verify that the device has been installed. You should see an entry something like this if you’re adding an SCSI disk drive:

sd3 is /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2/sd@0,0

dmesg command :  Displays system diagnostic messages as well as a list of devices attached to the system
since the most recent restart.
 

4. Check to see that a driver is attached by issuing the prtconf command. The message driver not attached next to instance name of the device should be gone and the device now should be available for use.

prtconf  command  :   prtconf  displays system configuration information, including the total amount of memory and the   device configuration, as described by the system’s hierarchy. This useful tool verifies whether a device has been seen by the system.