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EMC Fibre Channel with QLogic Host Bus Adapters in the Solaris Environment
Installing and Configuring the HBA and Driver
Partitioning and labeling devices
Use the format command to partition and label new Fibre Channel
devices. The devices will appear under
/dev/dsk and /dev/rdsk.
To partition and label new devices:
1. At the root prompt, type format and press ENTER.
The host searches for all disks and displays a list, placing all
unlabeled disks at the beginning of the list.
2. At the Specify Disk prompt, ENTER the number of the first EMC
drive.
3. The Format menu appears. At the format prompt, type label and
press ENTER.
4. At the Disk not labeled. Label it now? prompt, type
Y and press
ENTER.
5. Type disk and press ENTER at the prompt to display a list of the
disks.
6. Repeat Step 2 through Step 5 for each EMC storage array disk.