Mounting External Drive Array on Ultra 10 (Sparc) - Solaris 9

The IDE drive on my Ultra 10 died. The Ultra is connected via scsi to a drive array that has 6 hard drives in it. I replaced the IDE drive in the Ultra 10 and installed Solaris 9 but I have no idea on how to get the system to recognize the external drive array. I am not a big Unix user so any help would be appreciated.
Tony

1. Telling us about errors doesn't help. It's much easier for the rest of us to actually see what the error message is.Ok, reasonable request...
I'll try burning the disk at a slower speed. Thanks for the tip.
--Kurt                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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