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Information Update for the Solaris™

10 Operating System

Creating Virtual Drives on a System With a Dell™

SAS 6/iR Controller

On a system with a Dell SAS 6/iR controller, a firmware conflict may prevent you

from configuring virtual drives using the lsiutil and raidct1 commands in the

Solaris operating system. The system may issue an Operation failed error

message and place the physical drives in an offline state.

Workaround:

Configure virtual drives using the SAS configuration utility. To access the SAS

configuration utility, press <Ctrl-C> when prompted during the BIOS boot

sequence.

Dell PERC 6 Support

If the device driver for Dell PERC 6 controller is not included with the Solaris

operating system, navigate to your system driver download page on

support.dell.com and follow the instructions for downloading and installing the

drivers.

Installing the EMC

PowerPath

Driver on a

System With a PERC 6/i or CERC6 Controller

A system running Solaris 10 update 5 with a PERC 6/i or CERC6 as a boot

controller may fail to boot after installation of the EMC PowerPath driver. The

fix for this issue will be included in future releases or updates of the Solaris

operating system. Following is the workaround for this issue.

July 2008

Summary of content (4 pages)

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Information Update for the Solaris™ 10 Operating System Creating Virtual Drives on a System With a Dell™ SAS 6/iR Controller On a system with a Dell SAS 6/iR controller, a firmware conflict may prevent you from configuring virtual drives using the lsiutil and raidct1 commands in the Solaris operating system. The system may issue an Operation failed error message and place the physical drives in an offline state. Workaround: Configure virtual drives using the SAS configuration utility.
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Workaround: Edit the /kernel/drv/mega_sas.conf file and replace all occurrences of class="scsi" with parent="mega_sas", as in the following example. name="sd" class="scsi" target=0 lun=0; is changed to name="sd" parent="mega_sas" target=0 lun=0; System Timeouts on Multiprocessor Systems With an Onboard SATA Controller System timeouts may occur during system boot on a PowerEdge™ multiprocessor system if the root device is on a drive with a legacy ATA driver.
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Workaround 1: Install the Solaris operating system on a disk connected to a SAS 6 or CERC6 controller. Workaournd 2: During system installation, select the option not to auto reboot after installation is complete. When the installation completes, type the following in a UNIX shell to disable the microcode update: # mv /a/platform/i86pc/ucode /a/platform/i86pc/ucode.
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