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Managing Devices in Oracle® Solaris 11.4

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Updated: November 2020
 
 

Adding a Third-Party Disk

Oracle Solaris supports many third-party disks. However, for the disk to be recognized, you might need to supply a device driver.

    Other options for adding disks are as follows:

  • If you are adding a SCSI disk, try the Format utility's automatic configuration feature.

  • If you are adding a PCI, SCSI, or USB disk, try hot-plugging the disk. For more information, see Managing Devices in Oracle Solaris.


Note -  The Format utility will not necessarily work properly with all third-party disk drivers. If the disk driver is not compatible with the Format utility, the disk drive vendor should supply you with a custom disk formatting program.

If you invoke the Format utility and find that the disk type is not recognized, the Format utility probably does not support the disk type.

Refer to the appropriate configuration procedure for adding system disks or secondary disks in Setting Up ZFS on Disks.