HBA Software Installation

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This chapter describes the Solaris driver software that is required to support the HBA. The chapter contains the following section:

Installing Software for the Solaris OS

Installing Software for the Wind River Linux OS

Installing Software for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS

Installing Software for the Solaris OS

The HBA driver is included in the Solaris 10 6/06 (s10u2) release, at minimum. This Solaris 10 6/06 release, and later releases, require nothing from the user.

Solaris 10 1/06 (s10u1) is required to support the HBA on minimum supported versions of Solaris for x64/x86 systems. If you are using the Solaris 10 1/06 release, install patch 120222-21 or 120223-21 to install the HBA driver. Patches are available at http://sunsolve.sun.com.

To Install or Update the Driver From a Patch

1. Log in as the root user.

2. Navigate to the directory that contains the patch.

3. Add the latest patch by typing the following at the command prompt.

# patchadd patch-name

Solaris Diagnostic Support

Diagnostic support for the HBA is included in Oracle’s SunVTS software beginning with version 6.3. SunVTS is included with the Solaris 10 11/06 (s10u3) release and is also available for download at:

http://www.sun.com/oem/products/vts

The emlxtest utility, provided as part of the SunVTS software, supports the following functions:

Connectivity verification

Firmware version and checksum testing

Self testing

Loopback tests

External

Internal, single-bit

Internal, 10-bit

Mailbox

Installing Software for the Wind River Linux OS

The HBA driver is included in the supported version of the Wind River Linux OS. However, you must use the Wind River development kit to create a version of Wind River Linux that supports your hardware environment, which includes this HBA.

To Obtain the Wind River Development Kit

1. Go to the customer support area of the Wind River website at: http://www.windriver.com/support/

2. Contact Wind River customer support to purchase a development kit that is specific to your hardware environment.

The devlopment kit enables you to create a version of Wind River Linux that supports your hardware environment.

Note - When you contact Wind River customer support, be sure to specify all components in your hardware environment (including this HBA). This will ensure you receive all software that is required to run in the hardware environment.

Installing Software for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS

No updates are required to support the HBA on minimum supported versions of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS.

For diagnostic support, you might need to rebuild the Linux driver. Before rebuilding the driver for Linux, you must have the required Linux OS installed on the hard disk.

The driver and management utilities are available for download at the Emulex support site for Sun Microsystems.

To Install the HBA Software for the Linux OS

1. Go to the Emulex support site for Oracle at:

http://www.emulex.com/downloads/sun.html

2. Locate the Sun StorageTek section and click the model number for this HBA.

3. Locate the Linux Driver section and click the link to the driver for the appropriate version of Linux.

4. Click the driver kit Download icon to copy the driver to a local file system.

5. Click the applications kit Download icon to copy the management utilities to a local file system.

6. Click each of the manual icons to open the associated user manual.

7. Install the driver for Linux as described in the Emulex driver user manual.

8. Install the management utilities as described in the Emulex utilities user manual.