SUMMARY: SunPCi question

From: Richard Zinar (zinar@shannon.jpl.nasa.gov)
Date: Fri Sep 17 1999 - 16:51:58 CDT


 
    The consensus response was that I need to run:
    
        /opt/SUNWspci/bin/sunpciflash/sunpciupdate
        
    before flashing the BIOS with sunpciflash. Had I tried
    to run SunPCI after installing the patch I applied, I would
    apparently have been told to do this. As to why the patch
    doesn't change the pkginfo version of SunPCI, patches are
    not supposed to do this (according to Matthew Stier and Casper Dik).
    
    Thanks to:
    
        Matthew Stier
        Casper Dik
        Frank Velazquez
        Scott Mishkind
        James Musso
        Richard Felkins
        
    for their prompt responses ...
    
                                     Richard Zinar
              

> I'm trying to install and configure a SunPCi card on an Ultra-10
> for the first time, and would like to make sure I have the latest
> version of the various components. The machine is running 2.5.1.
>
> The CD I have is labelled "SunPCi 1.0" and is dated January 1999.
> After installing, the "pkginfo -l SUNWspci" command shows that
> the version is 1.0.
>
> After poking around Sun's Web site, it appeared that patch 107515-04
> would upgrade the installed version to 1.1.2, but although the patch
> installed successfully, the version displayed by pkginfo didn't change.
>
> The README file also said that the BIOS should be flashed after
> installing the patch using:
>
> /opt/SUNWspci/bin/sunpciflash -f /opt/SUNWspci/bios/sunpci.bin
>
> This failed with the message:
>
> host_setup() Incorrect Driver Revision - Rev: 38
>
> Can anyone shed some light on what I'm doing wrong? I was hoping I
> could just download the latest version (1.1.2?) - not just a patch -
> in its entirety, but I couldn't locate it on Sun's Web site ...



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