Peripherals under Solaris

The steps for installing a floppy, tape or CD-ROM under Solaris are:

In the root directory create a file called reconfigure. This tells the software to check for any new peripheral devices when it is powered on or booted.
Shut down the system.
Turn off the power after the ok or >> prompt. Turn off any peripherals also.
Install the new device.
Power up the system, including all peripherals.

If the installing the device required adding a new driver, the add_drv command will need to be run to alert the system that a driver has been added. When adding a third party tape drive the st driver may need to be called.

Solaris uses a layer of software called Volume Management to manage CD-ROM and disk drives. Volume Management automatically mounts CD-ROMs and floppy disks that have filesystems on them. Under Wabi or SunPC, interfaces specific to those products must be used to access CD-ROMs or floppy disks.