How to Move a Disk Cable to a New Adapter

Use the following procedure to move a disk cable to a new adapter within a node.

1. Quiesce all I/O to the affected disk(s).

2. Unplug the cable from the old adapter.

3. Run the cfgadm(1M) command on the local node to unconfigure all drives affected by the move.

   Or, reboot the node by using the following command.

   # reboot -- -r

4. Run the devfsadm -C command on the local node to clean up the Solaris device link.

5. Run the scdidadm -C command on the local node to clean up the DID device path.

6. Connect the cable to the new adapter.

7. Run the cfgadm command on the local node to configure the drives in the new location.

   Or, reboot the node by using the following command.

   # reboot -- -r

8. Run the scgdevs command to add the new DID device path.