Rescanning SCSI drives on Solaris 2.6

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

When installing/removing or changing SCSI drives on Solaris 2.6, one has run two commands to update the nodes in /dev.

When changing, adding or removing SCSI disks or CD-ROMs (or in my case, changing the SCSI2SD configuration to emulate different disks), Solaris 2.6 on my SPARCstation 10 doesn't automatically pick up the new disks on boot.

Instead, one has to manually do this. I googled it, and here it is for future reference:

drvconfig    # rescan for devices
disks        # rebuild /dev links for disk devices

Source: this usenet post from Andrew Gabriel 2007-08-17