Abstract
This document walks you through building a RAID-5 volume using four disks (three is the minimum, and performance can degrade when more than eight are used) on Solaris 8, using the command-line interface to Solstice Disk Suite. Our demonstration system contains five hot-swappable 9GB SCSI disks, one of which is the system disk.
Contents
Introduction
Step One: Partitioning the Disks
Step Two: Creating the Metadevice Database
Step Three: Configure the RAID-5 Metadevice
Step Four: Configure a …

Once the disk has been physically installed, the system should recognize a new device on the SCSI bus. After powering up the system, hold down the Stop key (on some Suns, this is labeled L1), and hit the A key to enter the boot monitor.
At the boot monitor, probe-scsi can be used to list the SCSI devices the system recognizes:

Type ‘go’ to resume
Type help for more information
ok probe-scsi
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This describes how to set up a simple mirror of a single disk. Related topics, such as striping, are not covered.
The following assumes the machine has been set up according to the guidelines in Solaris 8 Installation Notes, and Xhiering Notes or
Be aware that the disk, controller, slice, partition, etc. numbers that follow are simply examples. …

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