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Patch Nag | 1 Nov 02:35

New Solaris Patches available at riddleware.com 20091031

123591-11    SunOS 5.10_x86: PostgresSQL patch

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Paul Floyd | 1 Nov 12:01
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bge and ncrs, opensolaris

Hi

I'm in the process of moving to a new PC. The new PC, an HP z400, is on 
the Solaris 10 HCL, but I don't se it on the OpenSolaris HCL. I've 
installed sxce 125. I have two driver problems. I've moved a scsi hba + 
2 disks from the old PC. OpenSolaris has no 64bit ncrs driver. Does 
anyone know if such a thing is in the pipeline? I suppose the osol 
storage mailing list would be more approprate.

Next, the bge NIC. It's a broadcom netxtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet. 
I've tried both bge (adding the pci id) and the S10 bcme driver from the 
Broadcom web site. Both drivers give a failed to attach message. The HCL 
entry mentions using bcme, not bge. Any ideas for diagnosing/fixing this 
problem? Plan B is to transfer the cheap&nasty rtl 8139 nic from the old PC.

A+
Paul
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John D Groenveld | 1 Nov 14:20
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Re: bge and ncrs, opensolaris

In message <4AED6A85.404 <at> free.fr>, Paul Floyd writes:
>I'm in the process of moving to a new PC. The new PC, an HP z400, is on 
>the Solaris 10 HCL, but I don't se it on the OpenSolaris HCL. I've 
>installed sxce 125. I have two driver problems. I've moved a scsi hba + 
>2 disks from the old PC. OpenSolaris has no 64bit ncrs driver. Does 
>anyone know if such a thing is in the pipeline? I suppose the osol 

$ cat /etc/release 
                  Solaris Express Community Edition snv_125 X86
           Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                            Assembled 05 October 2009

$ file /kernel/drv/amd64/glm
/kernel/drv/amd64/glm:  ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable AMD64 Version 1 [SSE CMOV]

$ man glm
DESCRIPTION
     The glm Host Bus Adapter driver is a  SCSA  compliant  nexus
     driver  that  supports  the  LSI  53c810,   LSI  53c875, LSI
     53c876, LSI 53C896 and LSI 53C1010 SCSI chips

Don't know if it works.

John
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Paul Floyd | 1 Nov 15:13
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Re: bge and ncrs, opensolaris


> $ cat /etc/release 
>                   Solaris Express Community Edition snv_125 X86
>            Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
>                         Use is subject to license terms.
>                             Assembled 05 October 2009
> 
> $ file /kernel/drv/amd64/glm
> /kernel/drv/amd64/glm:  ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable AMD64 Version 1 [SSE CMOV]
> 
> $ man glm
> DESCRIPTION
>      The glm Host Bus Adapter driver is a  SCSA  compliant  nexus
>      driver  that  supports  the  LSI  53c810,   LSI  53c875, LSI
>      53c876, LSI 53C896 and LSI 53C1010 SCSI chips
> 
> Don't know if it works.

Hi

The hba is a Tekram DC-390U2W, LSI 53C895 based. I might be flogging a 
dead horse, and it'd be a lot simpler to get a sata disk or two.

A+
Paul
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Ian Collins | 1 Nov 19:28
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Re: bge and ncrs, opensolaris

Paul Floyd wrote:
>> $ cat /etc/release 
>>                   Solaris Express Community Edition snv_125 X86
>>            Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
>>                         Use is subject to license terms.
>>                             Assembled 05 October 2009
>>
>> $ file /kernel/drv/amd64/glm
>> /kernel/drv/amd64/glm:  ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable AMD64 Version 1 [SSE CMOV]
>>
>> $ man glm
>> DESCRIPTION
>>      The glm Host Bus Adapter driver is a  SCSA  compliant  nexus
>>      driver  that  supports  the  LSI  53c810,   LSI  53c875, LSI
>>      53c876, LSI 53C896 and LSI 53C1010 SCSI chips
>>
>> Don't know if it works.
>>     
>
> Hi
>
> The hba is a Tekram DC-390U2W, LSI 53C895 based. I might be flogging a 
> dead horse, and it'd be a lot simpler to get a sata disk or two.
>
>   
It will!

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David.Comay | 2 Nov 00:25
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Re: bge and ncrs, opensolaris

> I'm in the process of moving to a new PC. The new PC, an HP z400, is on
> the Solaris 10 HCL, but I don't se it on the OpenSolaris HCL. I've
> installed sxce 125. I have two driver problems. I've moved a scsi hba +
> 2 disks from the old PC. OpenSolaris has no 64bit ncrs driver. Does
> anyone know if such a thing is in the pipeline? I suppose the osol
> storage mailing list would be more approprate.

Currently that driver isn't part of the primary OpenSolaris package
repository as it isn't redistributable.  For the upcoming release,
we're looking into making the remaining drivers that are in SXCE
available via IPS through the /extra repository.

> Next, the bge NIC. It's a broadcom netxtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet.
> I've tried both bge (adding the pci id) and the S10 bcme driver from the
> Broadcom web site. Both drivers give a failed to attach message. The HCL
> entry mentions using bcme, not bge. Any ideas for diagnosing/fixing this
> problem? Plan B is to transfer the cheap&nasty rtl 8139 nic from the old PC.

That likely is an easier path to resolution although we certainly
welcome a bug filed against http://bugs.opensolaris.org against the bge
driver.

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Frank Tarczynski | 2 Nov 03:33
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OT: heatsinks and retention mountings for Ultra 20 motherboard

Sorry for this question, but I figured someone here might know.

I'm running S10 on a Tyan dual Opteron motherboard with aftermarket
heatsinks and mounitngs on the motherboard.  Recently I had a problem
with the plastic of the both heatsink mountings cracking and the
heatsinks coming loose.  Both heatsink mountings cracked at the point
where the heatsink retainer clip attached.

I'm not sure if heatsink mountings were poorly made or the heatsinks
were too heavy for the retainer clips to hold.

Has anyone every looked at the heatsinks and mountings used on the Ultra
20 as a replacement for other Opteron boards?

I realize they might not be cheap to purchase, but I'd expect that Sun
didn't use crappy stuff on their workstations.

Any ideas?

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palowoda | 2 Nov 04:00
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Re: bge and ncrs, opensolaris


--- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, David.Comay@... wrote:
>
> > I'm in the process of moving to a new PC. The new PC, an HP z400, is on
> > the Solaris 10 HCL, but I don't se it on the OpenSolaris HCL. I've
> > installed sxce 125. I have two driver problems. I've moved a scsi hba +
> > 2 disks from the old PC. OpenSolaris has no 64bit ncrs driver. Does
> > anyone know if such a thing is in the pipeline? I suppose the osol
> > storage mailing list would be more approprate.
> 
> Currently that driver isn't part of the primary OpenSolaris package
> repository as it isn't redistributable.  For the upcoming release,
> we're looking into making the remaining drivers that are in SXCE
> available via IPS through the /extra repository.
> 
 If the ncrs is the boot controller how is the driver going to be installed
from the /extra repository during the install phase?

---Bob

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Paul Floyd | 2 Nov 08:44
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On 2 Nov 2009, at 04:00, palowoda wrote:

>
>
> --- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, David.Comay@... wrote:
>>
>>> I'm in the process of moving to a new PC. The new PC, an HP z400,  
>>> is on
>>> the Solaris 10 HCL, but I don't se it on the OpenSolaris HCL. I've
>>> installed sxce 125. I have two driver problems. I've moved a scsi  
>>> hba +
>>> 2 disks from the old PC. OpenSolaris has no 64bit ncrs driver. Does
>>> anyone know if such a thing is in the pipeline? I suppose the osol
>>> storage mailing list would be more approprate.
>>
>> Currently that driver isn't part of the primary OpenSolaris package
>> repository as it isn't redistributable.  For the upcoming release,
>> we're looking into making the remaining drivers that are in SXCE
>> available via IPS through the /extra repository.
>>
> If the ncrs is the boot controller how is the driver going to be  
> installed
> from the /extra repository during the install phase?

The PC has 2 sata disks plus the 2 parallel scsi disks in it. I've  
installed SXCE 125 on the 1st sata disk, and the scsi disks have  
(amongst many other things - the old PC was very multiboot) a ZFS data  
partition and a UFS partition with SXCE 120 or thereabouts on it.
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palowoda | 2 Nov 09:18
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--- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, Paul Floyd <paulf@...> wrote:
>
> 
> On 2 Nov 2009, at 04:00, palowoda wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > --- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, David.Comay@ wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm in the process of moving to a new PC. The new PC, an HP z400,  
> >>> is on
> >>> the Solaris 10 HCL, but I don't se it on the OpenSolaris HCL. I've
> >>> installed sxce 125. I have two driver problems. I've moved a scsi  
> >>> hba +
> >>> 2 disks from the old PC. OpenSolaris has no 64bit ncrs driver. Does
> >>> anyone know if such a thing is in the pipeline? I suppose the osol
> >>> storage mailing list would be more approprate.
> >>
> >> Currently that driver isn't part of the primary OpenSolaris package
> >> repository as it isn't redistributable.  For the upcoming release,
> >> we're looking into making the remaining drivers that are in SXCE
> >> available via IPS through the /extra repository.
> >>
> > If the ncrs is the boot controller how is the driver going to be  
> > installed
> > from the /extra repository during the install phase?
> 
> The PC has 2 sata disks plus the 2 parallel scsi disks in it. I've  
> installed SXCE 125 on the 1st sata disk, and the scsi disks have
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