Chapter 4 Configuring Disk Drives, Disk Arrays, and CD-ROM Drives

This chapter gives procedures and guidelines for configuring hard and floppy disk drives and disk arrays, to HP-IB, HP-FL, and SCSI interfaces. Procedures and guidelines are also provided for configuring CD-ROM drives to HP-IB and SCSI interfaces.

When configuring a disk drive, disk array, or CD-ROM drive, have available the following additional documentation:

	NOTE: You can use /usr/sbin/ioscan -C disk to identify disks configured on your system. You can use /usr/sbin/diskinfo to find out disk characteristics. Once you have configured a disk and are creating a file system, HP-UX uses the correct disk geometry, without requiring you to cite an explicit /etc/disktab entry. For backward compatibility, you can still consult /etc/disktab for disk geometry information on older disks.