Instruction Manual

Driver Installation 79

Installing Solaris Driver

NOTE: The DUD images are created only for those operating system releases in

which the native (in-box) driver is insufficient for installation. In the event that an

operating system is being installed with a corresponding DUD image, follow the

instructions below. If not, proceed with the operating system installation using the

native device driver and then skip to "Adding or Updating the Driver to an Existing

System" on page 80.

Use the procedures in this section to install the driver for Solaris 10. To ensure

that you have the current version of the driver, download the updated Solaris

driver from the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.

The package is a gzipped .tar file. Download the package to a Solaris system,

and perform the following steps:

Extract the package contents:

gunzip -

c <driver_package.tgz> | tar xvf –

Use the

command to create a driver update disk. Use the appropriate

image for the purpose. Type:

dd if=./mega_sas.img of=

/<diskette drive device node> bs=32k

NOTE: If you are uncertain which device node corresponds to your diskette

drive, execute the rmformat command and search for the correct Logical

Node.

NOTE: You can create a DUD on a system running the Windows operating

system using the program dcopynt.

If you prefer, you may use the cdrecord command to create a CDROM

instead of a floppy image. Type:

cdrecord dev=

<bus>,<target>,<lun> mega_sas_cd.iso

NOTE: To identify the correct location of the bus, target, and logical unit

number (LUN) combination, execute the following command:

cdrecord --scanbus

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