RE: Sun's SRC/P card, Solaris upgrade SUMMARY

From: Ted John <ted.john_at_cavium.com>
Date: Sun Feb 24 2002 - 12:52:25 EST
Thanks to all:
Tim chipman ,  Tom Crummey , Frank van der Wolf

Basically it looks like upgrade the OS and then update the drivers. However
one response showed the drivers for sol8 as likes to sol6 drivers. Could be
the latest drivers are all the same.
since my drivers are older, I will go with upgrading the drivers

Thanks!

Ted John
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FYI , here are the responses.......

I upgrade a similar box (e450, with non-os slices in raid through the HW
raid card) from Sol 2.6->8 about a month ago.

I simply did the upgrade ; confirmed the OS stuff was good ; then
uninstalled the appropriate packages, applied the new ones (downloaded
from sunsolve) which provided support to this hardware under solaris 8.

After a reboot, everything was back to normal (ie, mounts on the HW raid
controller were visible again).

It was definitely NOT 100% automatic, ie, Solaris8 upgrade did NOT
resolve the issue by itself.

Hope this helps a bit,

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Hello Ted,

I did this:

Upgraded the system to Solaris 8. Downloaded the latest SRC/P drivers
and firmware from SUN. Installed those drivers. To be really sure,
I'd pkgrm the Solaris 7 drivers before the upgrade.

Tom.

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I got 4 controllers about a month ago. They came with the 2000 Revision A
software.

The Solaris 7 and 8 packages actually are symbolic links to the Solaris 2_6
software...

bash-2.05# pwd
/mnt/Solaris_8/Packages
bash-2.05# ls -l
total 13
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     other       2048 Aug 10  2000 SUNWhwrd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         36 Aug 10  2000 SUNWhwrdf ->
../../Solaris_.6/Packages/SUNWhwrdf
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         36 Aug 10  2000 SUNWhwrdg ->
../../Solaris_.6/Packages/SUNWhwrdg
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         36 Aug 10  2000 SUNWhwrdm ->
../../Solaris_.6/Packages/SUNWhwrdm
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     other       2048 Aug 10  2000 SUNWhwrdx
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         34 Aug 10  2000 SUNWvtsd7 ->
../../Solaris_7/Packages/SUNWvtsd7
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         34 Aug 10  2000 SUNWvtsdx ->
../../Solaris_7/Packages/SUNWvtsdx

I've found this page to be very usefull, as there is hardly any
documentation available on docs.sun.com:

http://sunsolve5.sun.com/fcs/hwraid-card/

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