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Solaris 9 4/04 Release Notes Supplement for Sun Hardware

Solaris 9 4/04

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

817-4190-10



Contents

1. Late-Breaking News

Name Change for the Supplement CD

Patch Enables Booting the Solaris 9 4/04 Operating Environment from DVD-ROM Media

Documents on the Software Supplement CD

Unbundled Product Support

Flash PROM Update for 64-Bit Operations

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

2. End-of-Support Products

Products not Supported in the Solaris 9 4/04 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 in Solaris 9 4/04 Operating Environment

SunVTS 5.1 Patch Set 5 (PS5) Issues

Sun Remote System Control (RSC) 2.2.2 Release Notes

SunForum

WDR (WBEM-Based Dynamic Reconfiguration)

OpenGL

Platform-Specific Issues

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

Netra Servers

Sun StorEdge Systems

Sun Fire Systems

Sun Fire 15K/12K Systems

Sun Blade Systems

Other Issues

Network Drivers Installed by Default

Serial Parallel Controller Driver Does Not Support Dynamic Reconfiguration (Bug ID 4177805)

PGX32 DGA Pixmap With Java SwingSet2 Crashes X Server (Bug ID 4420220)

picld Restarts Without Dumping Core (Bug ID 4459152)

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)

ATM LANE Subnets for IPv4/IPv6 Might Not Complete Initialization (Bug ID 4625849)

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

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

4. Dynamic Reconfiguration on Sun Fire Midrange Systems

General Information

Minimum SC Firmware

System Board Classes

Sun Management Center

Upgrading System Firmware

Known DR Limitations

General DR Limitations

Limitations Specific to CompactPCI

Operating System Quiescence

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)

CPU/Memory Board unconfig Takes a Long Time to Complete with Oracle/TPCC Load (Bug ID 4632219)

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

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

5. Sun Enterprise Midrange Systems Open Issues

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

Supported Hardware

Software Notes

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)

6. Sun Enterprise 10000 Release Notes

Dynamic Reconfiguration Issues

DR Model 3.0

General Issues

InterDomain Networks (IDN)

General Issues

Solaris Operating Environment

General Issues

7. Dynamic Reconfiguration on Sun Fire High-End Systems

Known Software Bugs

memscrubber Periodically Runs Nonstop with Big Mem, Interferes with DR (BugID 4647808)

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)

Rated Proc Speed Used Instead of Actual with DR Operation on Sun Fire High-End Systems (BugID 4964679)

Failed to Indict L2 Cache on a Sun Fire E25K/E20K When the Board was Configured via DR (BugID 4984562)

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)

Known Hardware Bugs

GigaSwift Ethernet MMF Link Goes Down With CISCO 4003 Switch After DR Attach (BugID 4709629)