Solaris - Reboot required to see new devices???

solaris 10 uses the built in, and solaris 9 uses emulex.

what kind of drivers are installed on these systems ..emulex/qlogic or leadville ?

The brand-new leadville driver allows an "hot" rescan of the luns (since it will talk to the also-brand-new SSD device driver in the kernel). So when you use SUN-branded HBA you can run "cfgadm" to rescan the scsi-chains and see new devices...
With the old SD driver (the one used by Qlogic and Emulex HBA) you have either to update a file (sd.conf) when you add new devices to you host or build a big sd.conf file with all the possible luns you think will ever see. The former choice forces you to reboot your host (since the sd.conf file is read only at boot). The later choice allows you to see devices with a "drvconfig ; links; disks" or a "devfsadm" command but will take a LONG time at boot.

What do you prefer ??

PS I think that someone will get a truncated message

man ...you are the culprit of me getting truncated messages, make up your mind before you hit the Post Message button

Dynamox I think that the issue is related to the notifications that get sent when I reply in a thread you are watching .. You'll get a notification only when I do first post. If later I modify the post, you won't be notified again .. and you'll believe that the post had been "truncated"
Julie worked on this .. and I'll show you that this post won't be truncated

Sometime it happens that I do write something and later I find some typos in the post .. Usually I prefer to edit the post but -since nothing changed in the post, apart errors - I don't add the "Message was edited.." flag to the message ...

And I always prefer to ADD lines to an existing post instead of posting a number of new messages to explain what I did write .. Shame on me

Message was edited by:
Stefano Del Corno

Message was edited by:
Stefano Del Corno

hehehe ...i see this time you added "Message was edited by" ..but i still did not get an email with new content ? Should i even get a new message ? Probably not ..

Julie and I did some tests and it seems that you'll get a mail only on new posts .. If someone edits a post, you'll never be notified.. This is a strange behaviour that recalls me what happens if I do post a reply, then JohnX posts another reply and later I modify my own post... The net effect is that when you look at a Category, you'll see that the last post is mine (since I did modify my post) but if you look below at the thread-list, the last answer will be from JohnX .. Sounds silly but that's the way things goes .. At least with this software