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Russell Aspinwall | 1 Oct 12:56
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Sun LSI MegaRAID driver and MegaRIAD SATA 300-8X

Hi,

After downloading the Sun LSI MegaRAID driver and putting it onto a 
floppy drive and then examing it.
It appears that I can the PCI identifiers for the LSI MegaRAID SATA 300 
to the postinstall file which is obtained by uncompress lsimega.Z and 
then unzipping the resultant ZIP archive (would not bzip2 be more 
efficient?)

./DU/sol_210/i86pc/Product/SUNWlsimega/install/postinstall
check_add_drv -i '"pci1028,13" "pci1000,407" "pci1000,407.1000.532" 
"pci1000,408" "pci1000,408.1000.2" "pci1000,1960"' -b "$BASEDIR" -c scsi 
lsimega   <--- add new PCI references here

Then produce new entries to that below to allow for booting from the 
Raid Array?

echo "setprop target-driver-for-pci1000,1960 'sd'" >> 
$BASEDIR/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc
echo 'pci1000,1960 pci1000,1960 msd pci none "Solaris(TM) Device Driver 
for LSI MegaRAID Adapter"' >> $BASEDIR/boot/solaris/devicedb/master

Is there any thing I have missed?

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Al Hopper | 1 Oct 14:40

quick setup zfs bootable build 72


Just posted a "cheat sheet" style blog that will help you setup a PXE 
bootable install server to load SXCE Build 72 (or later) in a ZFS 
bootable configuration.  From scratch, you should be able to complete 
the entire process in about one hour.

http://sol10frominnerspace.blogspot.com/2007/09/setup-zfs-boot-for-build-72.html

Feedback welcome.

Regards,

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Russell Aspinwall | 1 Oct 18:45
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LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X

Hi, 

I booted the computer and this time the display worked (it must have the LCD that caused the original display
problems) and ran scanpci to get the following :- 

pci bus 0x0084 cardnum 0x0e function 0x00: vendor 0x1000 device 0x0409 LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID 

 
prtconf -pv provides the following :- 

compatible: 'pci1000,409.1000.3008.a' + 'pci1000,409.1000.3008' + 'pci1000,3008' +
'pci1000,409.a' + 'pci1000,409' + 'pciclass,010400' + 'pciclass,0104' 
model: 'RAID Controller' 

 

I modified the postinstall script to 

check_add_drv -i '"pci1028,13" "pci1000,407" "pci1000,407.1000.532" "pci1000,408"
"pci1000,408.1000.2" "pci1000,409" "pci1000,409.1000.3008.a" "pci1000,409.1000.3008"
"pci1000,1960"' -b "$BASEDIR" -c scsi lsimega 

and added  

echo "setprop target-driver-for-pci1000,409 'sd'" >> $BASEDIR/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc 
echo 'pci1000,409 pci1000,409 msd pci none "Solaris(TM) Device Driver for LSI MegaRAID Adapter"' >>
$BASEDIR/boot/solaris/devicedb/master 
echo 'pci1000,409.1000.3008.a pci1000,409.1000.3008.a msd pci none "Solaris(TM) Device Driver for
LSI MegaRAID Adapter"' >> $BASEDIR/boot/solaris/devicedb/master 
echo 'pci1000,409.1000.3008 pci1000,409.1000.3008 msd pci none "Solaris(TM) Device Driver for LSI
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Michael McKnight | 1 Oct 23:31
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NIC Identification

Hi Everyone,

This is one of the most frustrating parts of Solaris... device 
identification.  Solaris makes it sooooo hard to simply get a list of 
devices, where they are connected and how to address them.

The closest thing I have found is /usr/X11/bin/scanpci but it is still 
lacking.  For example:  scanpci tells me this:

pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x09 function 0x00: vendor 0x10b7 device 0x9055
  3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]

pci bus 0x0003 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x10b9
  Intel Corporation 82572EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0a function 0x00: vendor 0x10de device 0x0057
  nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller

But doesnt tell me how to address the card?  Are they nge0, elx1, 
sfe2???  What to I plumb to get these cards online?

So, the question is... if I know nothing about Solaris and nothing 
specific about my hardware, how can I identify all network cards 
installed in the machine and determine which name they have been given 
(ie. elx1 vs. elx0 vs. nfe2 vs. e1000g1) without having to 
cross-reference a bunch of vauge text files (ie driver_aliases, etc)???

Thanks,
Michael
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Michael McKnight | 1 Oct 23:46
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Re: quick setup zfs bootable build 72

When will we be able to build and manage ZFS (or SVM) volumes from the 
installation utility?  This is another frustrating part of Solaris... 
having to go back after the installation and reconfigure disks, etc.

It would be nice to be able to build a ZFS pool, allocate filesystems, 
sizes and mountpoints and then install the OS right onto the new ZFS 
pool.  Same basic idea with SVM... why cant we build a RAID5 volume, 
slice up some soft partitions on it, and then install the OS.

HPUX and AIX have had this capability for a long time and I would 
absolutely love to see it in Solaris.

-Michael

Al Hopper wrote:
> Just posted a "cheat sheet" style blog that will help you setup a PXE 
> bootable install server to load SXCE Build 72 (or later) in a ZFS 
> bootable configuration.  From scratch, you should be able to complete 
> the entire process in about one hour.
> 
> http://sol10frominnerspace.blogspot.com/2007/09/setup-zfs-boot-for-build-72.html
> 
> Feedback welcome.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Al Hopper  Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX.  al <at> logical-approach.com
>             Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134  Timezone: US CDT
> OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005-2007/
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Geoff Lane | 2 Oct 07:13
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Re: NIC Identification

Michael McKnight wrote:
> So, the question is... if I know nothing about Solaris and nothing
> specific about my hardware, how can I identify all network cards
> installed in the machine and determine which name they have been given
> (ie. elx1 vs. elx0 vs. nfe2 vs. e1000g1) without having to
> cross-reference a bunch of vauge text files (ie driver_aliases, etc)???
> 

# ifconfig -a plumb

will find all supported NICs on the computer.  You can then see what was 
found with

# ifconfig -a

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Russell Aspinwall | 2 Oct 08:26
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Re: LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X

Hi,

I forgot the pkgmap file, so I modified the file size and checksum 
information and the driver install when running pkgadd -d . SUNWlsimega.

The pkgmap map needs the two entries modified for the postinstall

1 i postinstall 4345 538 1123150996

4345 is the file size obtained from ls -l
538 is the first part of the "sum install/postinstall"

I will be able to test this modifed driver later this afternoon, 
assuming it works I will let you know. If you have other LSI MegaRAID 
PCI details I will add them to the SUNWlsimega driver.

Russell Aspinwall wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I booted the computer and this time the display worked (it must have 
> the LCD that caused the original display problems) and ran scanpci to 
> get the following :-
>
> pci bus 0x0084 cardnum 0x0e function 0x00: vendor 0x1000 device 0x0409 
> LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID
>
>
> prtconf -pv provides the following :-
>
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Laurent Blume | 2 Oct 11:01
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Re: quick setup zfs bootable build 72

Michael McKnight a écrit :
> When will we be able to build and manage ZFS (or SVM) volumes from the 
> installation utility?  This is another frustrating part of Solaris... 
> having to go back after the installation and reconfigure disks, etc.
> 
> It would be nice to be able to build a ZFS pool, allocate filesystems, 
> sizes and mountpoints and then install the OS right onto the new ZFS 
> pool.  Same basic idea with SVM... why cant we build a RAID5 volume, 
> slice up some soft partitions on it, and then install the OS.
> 
> HPUX and AIX have had this capability for a long time and I would 
> absolutely love to see it in Solaris.

It's much more than frustration - it's an actual data-corruption bug.

If you do an install of Solaris over another version that was configured 
with SVM mirroring, the Solaris installer will silently activate the 
mirror - but it will mount the real slice for installation!

With all the consequences that stems from writing directly on one half 
of an active mirror. The result is a complete mess, but alas, a bootable 
one.

Laurent
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John D Groenveld | 2 Oct 15:53
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MEDIA: Sun Merges Storage Back into Systems Group

Timothy Prickett Morgan on Management's latest moves to
jumpstart Sun's storage business:
<URL:http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns100107-story01.html>
| The Galaxy and Niagara servers designed by Andy Bechtolsheim (one of
| Sun's founders who returned to the company a number of years ago and
| is largely responsible for the very good designs in these boxes) are
| really network and storage devices as much as they are servers. The
| Thumper X4500 storage server is an element in an integrated, high-end
| network system that Bechtolsheim has created called the Constellation
| System. The system also includes X64-based Galaxy rack and blade
| servers, Sun's Solaris operating system and its ZFS file system, and a
| massive InfiniBand switch called Magnum.

John
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Mike Riley | 2 Oct 17:02
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Re: 4Front OSS and SXDE 0907

Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> Mike Riley <michael.riley <at> sun.com> writes:
> 
>> Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
>>> Do I still need the package from 4Front if I want the OSS drivers?
>>> I recall to have read somewhere that these drivers would become
>>> part of the (base) solaris express (dev) edition.
>> It has not yet made it into the Solaris distribution. They are
>> starting to do internal testing now.
> 
> Thanks for this info. _If_ the drivers are part of a future sxde
> release would this one remove the installed 4front package itself
> (that way I can forget about the issue) as a conflicting package do
> you think?

I do not know, but it should at least supersede it.

Mike

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