Mounting Solaris 10 concatenated disk array?

I have attempted to mount a D130 disk array attached to an E420R system running Solaris 10. This array has three drives installed an formatted. I would like to mount the three disks as one large storage partition. It seems to me that I want a concatenated stripe but I am not really sure.
This is what I have so far:
# format
2. c0t2d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> d130-1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2/sd@2,0
3. c0t3d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> d130-2
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2/sd@3,0
4. c0t4d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> d130-3
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2/sd@4,0
# metastat
d1: Concat/Stripe
Size: 106067120 blocks (50 GB)
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase Reloc
c0t4d0s6 9424 No Yes
Stripe 1:
Device Start Block Dbase Reloc
c0t3d0s6 4712 No Yes
Stripe 2:
Device Start Block Dbase Reloc
c0t2d0s6 4712 No Yes
Device Relocation Information:
Device Reloc Device ID
c0t4d0 Yes id1,sd@SSEAGATE_ST318203LSUN18G_LRK4938300002106U7JZ
c0t3d0 Yes id1,sd@SSEAGATE_ST318203LSUN18G_LRJ9725900002105G9EY
c0t2d0 Yes id1,sd@SSEAGATE_ST318203LSUN18G_LRK19873000021073LVN
How do I mount this as one combined single slice?
I appreciate anyone's assitance here.

I have attempted to mount a D130 disk array attached
to an E420R system running Solaris 10. This array has
three drives installed an formatted. I would like to
mount the three disks as one large storage partition.
It seems to me that I want a concatenated stripe but
I am not really sure.Either a concatenation or a stripe. I'm not sure what a concatenated stripe is.
Neither will offer redundancy. A concatenation can be more easily extended in the future, while a stripe would offer better performance in most situations.
metastat
d1: Concat/Stripe
Size: 106067120 blocks (50 GB)
Stripe 0:
Device Start Block Dbase Reloc
c0t4d0s6 9424 No Yes
Stripe 1:
Device Start Block Dbase Reloc
c0t3d0s6 4712 No Yes
Stripe 2:
Device Start Block Dbase Reloc
c0t2d0s6 4712 No YesSo a 3 column stripe totalling 50G.
How do I mount this as one combined single slice?The devices are /dev/md/rdsk/d1 and /dev/md/dsk/d1. You could place a filesystem on the character device with newfs and you could mount the block device.
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