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SPARC T4-2 Server

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Using This Documentation

1.  Late-Breaking Information

Preinstalled Software

Supported Versions of Oracle Solaris OS, Firmware, and Software

OS Package and Patch Updates

Determining Oracle Solaris 11 OS Package Update Version

Determining Oracle Solaris 10 Patch Revision

Minimum Required Patchset for Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 OS

Minimum Required Patchsets and SPARC Bundle for Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 OS

Minimum Required Patchsets and SPARC Bundle for Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 OS

Support for new 16 Gbyte and 32 Gbyte DIMMs

Rules for I/O Slot Use by Certain Cards

2.  Known Product Issues

Hardware Issues

Maximizing Memory Bandwidth

Direct I/O Support

Use Links Labeled SPARC T3 to Download sas2ircu Software for SPARC T4 Servers

Installing Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID HBA, Internal, Disables the DVD Drive

Sun Type 6 Keyboards Are Not Supported by SPARC T4 Series Servers

I/O Performance Might Degrade When Using More Than Two Ports Across Multiple Sun Dual 10 GbE SFP+ PCIe Cards (CR 6943558)

Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe RAID HBA, Internal, Must Be Installed In PCIe2 Slot 0 (CR 6982358)

Server Panics When Booting From a USB Thumbdrive Attached to the Front USB Ports (CR 6983185)

Cannot Plumb Sun Quad GbE x8 PCIe Low Profile Adapter in PCIe Slot 0 When More Than Five Are Installed (CR 6993897)

Front-Panel Video Port Does Not Support Resolutions Greater Than 1024 x 768 (CR 7021609)

PSH Might Not Clear a Retired Cache Line on a Replaced Motherboard (CR 7031216)

Restrictions on Placement of HBAs in Slot 4 and Slot 5 (CR 7046966)

PCIe Correctable Errors Might Be Reported (CR 7051331)

L2 Cache Uncorrectable Errors Might Lead to an Entire Processor Being Faulted (CR 7065563)

L2 Cache UEs Are Sometimes Reported as Core Faults Without Any Cache Line Retirements (CR 7071237)

Upon a Reboot After an Unrecoverable Hardware Error, CPUs Might Not Start (CR 7075336)

Spurious Power Supply Errors Might Be Reported (CR 7180259)

Oracle Solaris OS Issues

Custom nvalias Settings Do Not Change During a System Reconfiguration

Cannot Boot Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 OS From the Internal DVD

The cfgadm -al Command Takes a Long Time to Print Output (CR 6937169)

Spurious Interrupt Message in System Console (CR 6963563)

Spurious Error Message During Initial Oracle Solaris 10 OS Installation (CR 6971896)

When diag-switch? Is Set to true, Oracle Solaris OS Fails to Update EEPROM for Automatic Rebooting (CR 6982060)

Memory Allocation Issues With Emulex 8Gb HBAs in a Magma I/O Expansion Box (CR 6982072)

Fault Management Sometimes Sends Resolved Cases to the SP (CR 6983432)

Gigabit Ethernet (nxge) Driver Not Loading on Systems With Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 OS and a Solaris 10 9/10 Patchset or Solaris 10 8/11 Patchset (CR 6995458)

nxge Driver Warning Messages Appear After Reboot (CR 7037575)

The cfgadm Command Fails for Certain HBAs (CR 7044759)

The trapstat -T Command Causes Bad Watchdog Resets at TL2 (CR 7052070)

Watchdog Timeouts Seen With Heavy Workloads and Maximum Memory Configurations (CR 7083001)

Benign Error Message: mptsas request inquiry page 0x83 for target:a, lun:0 failed! (CR 7092982)

Oracle VTS dtlbtest Hangs When the CPU Threading Mode Is Set to max-ipc (CR 7094158)

Some pciex8086,105f Devices Fail to Attach On Servers Equipped with System Firmware 8.2.0.b (CR 7147940)

Firmware Issues

Identifying the Boot Volume On Servers Equipped With the Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe 8-Port Internal RAID HBA

Timestamp for an Oracle ILOM Fault/Critical Event Might Be Off by One Hour (CR 6943957)

e1000g Driver Generates Spurious ereports When Installing Oracle Solaris OS Over a Sun PCIe Dual Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (CR 6958011)

Missing Interrupt Causes USB Hub Hot-plug Thread to Hang, Resulting In Process Hangs (CR 6968801)

sas2ircu Message That RAID Volume Sizes Other Than “MAX” Are Not Supported (CR 6983210)

Units Used to Define the MIB Power Management Time Limit Are Reported in Seconds (CR 6993008)

Message From cpustat Refers to Processor Documentation Incorrectly (CR 7046898)

reboot disk Command Occasionally Fails When disk Argument Picks Up Extra Characters (CR 7050975)

A Sequence of Errors in a CPU's Register Might Block Strand Retirement for Some Earlier Errors (CR 7071974)

Blue LED On Drive Does Not Light When the Drive Is Ready to Remove (CR 7082700)

Cold Reset Adds One Day to System Time (CR 7127740)

System Shuts Down Following a false SYS_POK_GLITCH Error (CR 7146062)

Chapter 1

Late-Breaking Information

These product notes contain important and late-breaking information about Oracle's SPARC T4-2 server.