Instruction Manual

80 Driver Installation
Installing Solaris 10 on a PowerEdge System Booting From a PERC H700
or H800 Card
To install the driver during Solaris 10 operating system installation:
1
Boot the system from the Solaris installation media and select the
preferred console.
2 After Solaris finishes configuring devices, a menu is displayed.
Select
Apply Driver Updates .
3 Select [ 1 ] if you created a CD from the mega_sas_cd.iso file.
4 Select [ 2 ] if you created a diskette from the mega_sas.img file and you are
using a traditional diskette drive.
5 Select [ 3 ] if you created a diskette from the mega_sas.img file and you are
using a removable (USB) diskette drive.
6 Follow instructions presented by Driver Update installer.
7 The following message is displayed: Installation of <megasas>
was successful
.
8 Select [ e ] to end
9 Follow the instructions on the screen to complete installation.
Adding or Updating the Driver to an Existing System
1 To add the mega_sas driver to an existing system, or to upgrade to a newer
version of the driver, you must unarchive the driver package and execute
the installation script:
tar xvf x86_64.tar
cd x86_64
./install.sh
2
Restart your Solaris system to start using the new driver. To confirm the
mega_sas driver is loaded, run the following command:
modinfo | grep mega_sas
3
Ensure that the driver version is correct.
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