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  1. vesposito

    Flash installs of Solaris 6

    Bump - any takers? Vincent Esposito
  2. vesposito

    Flash installs of Solaris 6

    Yes, I know it's not something you're *supposed* to be able to do, but I've been experimenting with it anyway to make life easier on my jumpstart server (which currently still needs to be able to install any OS from 5 and up). I was hoping I could trick Solaris into letting me build and install...
  3. vesposito

    V480 failed drive

    You will probably be able to see the drive after swapping it without running devfsadm since it will occupy the same scsi target as the original. Just be cautious when you do- hot swapping can sometimes be a little flaky. If you have the luxury to do so take the system down before installing the...
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    Problem seeing silo on qlogic HBA

    I did the parent="qla2300" in st.conf. I'm not certain how many options I have for the qla2300.conf file - but I'll definately have to do more research there and see if anything new comes up. ------------------------------------ I'd say that's worth a try anyway. Another possibility would be...
  5. vesposito

    How to Find TapeDrive Type

    If you use mt -f /dev/rmt/0 stat you will only get "No tape loaded or drive offline" unless there is a tape in the drive. This appears to hold true for every tape drive type I've used (which is pretty much everything- I work with an enormous number of different tape drive types.) If you load a...
  6. vesposito

    Telnet to remote Solaris 9 machine

    Unless ftp is disabled for security reasons on the solaris box, you should be able to use ftp to do your file transfers. You'll need to check /etc/ftpusers on the solaris box and make sure the username you are connecting as is NOT in the file to allow ftp access. You're pretty much limited to...
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    Problem seeing silo on qlogic HBA

    I have actually tried that, and it did not appear to work. When I use the newer dynamic reconfigure driver I am seeing the devices as target 0, lun 0 (arm), and luns 1-4 (drives), so when I switched back to the 4.13 driver I added entries for up to lun 6 on target 0 (more than I should need) and...
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    Problem seeing silo on qlogic HBA

    I am attempting to configure a silo on a V880 running solaris 9 using a dual port 2gb Qlogic HBA. Since I am using Legato, the simplest reccomendation is to use Qlogic's 4.13 driver since legato has issues with seeing the robotic control correctly with the current 4.18 driver. The silo I am...
  9. vesposito

    V480 w/ Solaris 9, boot problem

    Red State Exception is most likely a hardware problem- I believe it is the CPU telling you there is an external hardware fault (by external meaning external to the CPUS- In my experience, it usually means bad memory, or possibly a problem with one or more memory slots on the system board, or...
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    Sun Solaris root password reset

    If you already have an open root shell, no problem, if not your only recourse will be to boot from CD, mount your root partition to /mnt, then vi /mnt/etc/shadow easiest thing to do then is leave the password field empty, and reassign a real root password IMMEDIATELY when you boot back up- you...
  11. vesposito

    Solaris 9 on v880 boot issue

    We were able to correct the problem with little issue after some research into areas not "officially" supported by sun. The bootblock was not the issue, we did install a valid bootblock after the restore, however in rebuilding device paths etc, our client initially missed rebuilding...
  12. vesposito

    Solaris 9 on v880 boot issue

    Has anyone seen this issue before? I have a v880 which will not boot after an OS recovery, the system hangs partway through boot. I've booted the system with a -rv option so I can get some idea where it is hanging- the last lines of output are: cpu7: UltraSPARC-III+ (portid 7 impl 0x15 ver...
  13. vesposito

    9840C FC Drive SAN issue

    I have a few 9840C FC drives attached to a SAN, the older drives have been in use for some time and are attached to a switch using fabric topology (point to point), however, the newer drives that have come in are not visible on the SAN unless I connect them to a switch configured as Arbitrated...
  14. vesposito

    Recovering a system from Flash Archive

    A collegue suggests that the recovery is likely to work if the client creates their flash image off an install that was done with the full OEM distribution- his reasoning is that teh real issue is with having the appropriate drivers for the PCI based hardware (vs SCSI on the 450) rather than...
  15. vesposito

    Recovering a system from Flash Archive

    Do you think it might work if I rebuilt the path_to_inst file at reboot time?
  16. vesposito

    Recovering a system from Flash Archive

    Does anyone have any info regarding possible pitfalls when recovering a solaris 8 system from flash archive? The specific issue I'm wondering about is based on the fact that my client will be providing a flash image from an e450 that will be laid down on a V880 for their DR excercise. What...

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