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Solaris 9 9/05 Release Notes Supplement for Sun Hardware

Solaris 9 9/05

Includes Additional Release Notes and End-of- Support Statements for the Solaris 9 Operating Environment Running on Sun Hardware Products

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Contents

1. Late-Breaking News

Naming of Media Kit Disks and Documentation

Name Change for the Supplement CD

Documents on the Software Supplement CD

Systems with UltraSPARC IV+ Boards Require Solaris 9 9/05

Unbundled Product Support

Flash PROM Update for 64-Bit Operations

DVD-ROM/CD-ROM Drives on Headless Systems (Bug ID 4365497)

Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Software and Documentation

New Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) Documentation

2. End-of-Support Products

Products Not Supported in the Solaris 9 9/05 Operating Environment

sun4d Servers

Ethernet Quad Drivers qe and qec

Alternate Pathing Multipath I/O

Token Ring Network Drivers

PC File Viewer

PC Launcher

SunFDDI and SunHSI/S Drivers

ShowMe TV

Solaris Maintenance Updates

Future End-of-Support Products

le Drivers

SPC Driver

Sun4m Platform Group

Tape Devices

Storage Interfaces

Sun StorEdge Systems

3. Open Issues

Application-Specific Issues

SunScreen SKIP 1.1.1 Not Supported

SunVTS

Sun Remote System Control

SunForum

Platform-Specific Issues

Upgrade Firmware on Sun Fire and Netra Servers Before Installation (BugID 4747307, 4799331)

Netra Servers

Error Message Appears for Netra X1 in Solaris 9 (BugID 4663358)

Sun StorEdge Systems

LUN Missing After Changing Target ID (Bug ID 4399108)

Incorrect Parameters Might Cause Panic in Sun StorEdge T3 (Bug ID 4319812)

Sun Fire Systems

RCM Might Fail After Repeated Hot Plug Stress (Bug ID 4474058)

XVR-4000 Might Not Be Recognized After Solaris Installation (BugID 4842377)

Sun Fire V880 Shows Warning After Reboot (Bug ID 4717004)

Sun Fire V250 Installation

Sun Fire 6800 Might Crash When Running trapstat (BugIDs 4978865 and 4979012)

psrinfo -p Might Not Display All CPUs (BugID 4983696)

prtdiag Does Not Show System Board After the Board Is Added to the Domain Using DR (BugID 6309113)

Sun Fire 15K/12K Systems

Updated Flash Image for Sun Fire 15K/12K Systems Running SMS 1.2 (BugID 4728549)

SMS Error on Sun Fire 15K/12K (BugID 4979315)

Sun Blade Systems

System Panics When Xsun Dies With UPA Bus Off (Bug ID 4772013)

Other Issues

Network Drivers Installed by Default

spec_open Failure Causes Point Mount Failure (Bug ID 4431109)

Last Connection to Subsystem Might Detach (Bug ID 4432827)

Pulled Cable on Dual-Channel FC PCI Card Is Undetected (Bug ID 4438711)

Pulled Cable on A5x00 Leaves System Board Undetachable (Bug ID 4452438)

qlc Power Management Causes Kernel Panic (Bug ID 4446420)

Devices Might Not Appear After Boot (Bug ID 4456545)

System Might Loop When Master CPU Is Changed (Bug ID 4405263)

Untagged Devices Incorrectly Supported (Bug ID 4460668)

Some DVD and CD-ROM Drives Fail to Boot Solaris (Bug ID 4397457)

MPxIO Driver Causes Domain Panic During DR (Bug ID 4467730)

scsi Times Out on cPCI and Dual-Channel FC PCI Cards (Bug ID 4424628)

Installation Might Fail on Drives Above 96 Gbytes (BugID 4724529)

probe-scsi-all OBP Command Must Be Followed by reset-all (BugID 4589231)

Patch Obsoleted for Firmware Upgrade (Bug ID 5053382)

4. Dynamic Reconfiguration on Sun Fire Midrange Systems

General Information

Minimum SC Firmware

System Board Classes

Sun Management Center

Upgrading System Firmware

Known DR Software Bugs

cfgadm_sbd Plug-In Signal Handling Is Broken (BugID 4498600)

SBM Sometimes Causes System Panic During DR Operations (Bug ID 4506562)

DR Hangs During Configure Operation with IB Board with vxdmpadm policy=check_all (Bug ID 4509462)

Cannot DR Out cPCI IB with P0 Disabled (BugID 4798990)

panic: mp_cpu_quiesce: cpu_thread != cpu_idle_thread (BugID 4873353)

5. Dynamic Reconfiguration on Sun Fire High-End Systems

Known Bugs

Deleteboard Shows Leakage Error (BugID 4730142)

glm: Hang in scsi_transport During DR (BugID 4737786)

System Panic During ddi_attach sequence (BugID 4797110)

Panic: mp_cpu_quiesce: cpu_thread != cpu_idle_thread (BugID 4873353)

cfgadm_sbd Plugin Signal Handling Is Broken (BugID 4498600)

page_retire Does Not Update Retired Page List in Some Cases (BugID 4893666)

Page Removal Causes a Good Page to be Removed After a DR Operation (BugID 4860955)

prtdiag Still Shows System Board After the Board Is Removed from the Domain Using DR (BugID 6298989)

6. Sun Enterprise Midrange Systems

Dynamic Reconfiguration on Sun Enterprise 6x00, 5x00, 4x00, and 3x00 Systems

Supported Hardware

Software Notes

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Enable Dynamic Reconfiguration

Quiesce Test

Disabled Board List

Disabled Memory List

Unloading Detach-Unsafe Drivers

Interleaved Memory

Self-Test Failure During a Connect Sequence

Known Bugs

Memory Interleaving Set Incorrectly After a Fatal Reset (Bug ID 4156075)

DR: Cannot Unconfigure a CPU/Memory Board That Has Interleaved Memory (Bug ID 4210234)

DR: Cannot Unconfigure a CPU/Memory Board That Has Permanent Memory (Bug ID 4210280)

cfgadm Disconnect Fails When Running Concurrent cfgadm Commands (Bug ID 4220105)

Cannot Drain or Detach Sun Enterprise Server Boards That Host QFE Cards (Bug ID 4231845)

7. Sun Enterprise 10000 Systems

Dynamic Reconfiguration Issues

DR Model 3.0

General Issues

DR and Bound User Processes

Enabling DR 3.0 Requires an Extra Step in Certain Situations (Bug ID 4507010)

InterDomain Networks (IDN)

General Issues

Solaris Operating Environment

General Issues

Solaris 9 9/05 and Boot Disk Partition Sizes

OpenBoot PROM Variables

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Set the local-mac-address? Variable