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Solaris 7 3/99 Release Notes Supplement for Sun Hardware
Book Information
Chapter 1 Late Breaking News
Service Contract Upgrades to Solaris 7 3/99
Unbundled Product Support
PC File Viewer Update
Documents on the Solaris 7 3/99 Sun Computer Systems Supplement CD
Product Name and Title Changes
Sun Microsystems Name Changes
Solaris Name Change
Solaris Server Intranet Extension Name Change
Flash PROM Update for 64-bit Operations
Flash PROM Update Multimedia AnswerBook CD
Software No Longer Included
Solstice SyMON
Sun StorEdge A5000
Chapter 2 End-of-Support Products
End-of-Support Products
Network Devices -- BEC Device and be Driver
Graphics Devices--Discontinued Frame Buffers
PEX Graphics Library
Future End-of-Support Products
Sun4c-based Systems
SPARCstation Voyager
SPARC Xterminal 1
Chapter 3 Open Issues
Prestoserve 2.4.2 -- Patch Required
Booting From Partitions Greater Than 2-Gbytes (1234177)
SunFDDI Adapters Cannot Boot Sun4d Diskless Clients (4144414)
Quad Ethernet Controller--Dynamic Reconfiguration Not Supported
Serial Parallel Controller Driver
Serial Parallel Controller Driver Does Not Support Dynamic Reconfiguration (4177805)
ISDN -- Power Management Not Supported
/usr/ucblib/sparcv9 is Not Available (4114650)
SunScreen SKIP 1.1.1 Not Supported in Solaris 7 3/99
Solstice SyMON Not Supported in Solaris 7 3/99
SunVTS 3.1 Issues
SunVTS Tests Not Available in 64-Bit Mode
SunVTS Online Diagnostics through SyMON
The SunVTS User Interface Disappears (4122829)
The rtvctest is Not Available in SunVTS 3.0 and SunVTS 3.1 (4172722)
SunVTS OPEN LOOK User Interface Support
Trace Mode Update
enatest and socaltest Cannot Run at the Same Time (4065417)
socaltest FATAL: Failed ioctl FCIO_DIAG_XRAM (4065420)
Disk and Floppy Drives Test (disktest) Update
File System Mounting
disktest Option File Note
Sun Enterprise 10000
General Issues
Solaris 7 and Boot-Disk Partition Sizes
Operating Mode
Solaris 7 3/99 and the SSP
Patch-ID 105684-04
SSP Patches
Patch-ID 106281-01
Patch-ID 106282-01
Fixed Bugs
Dynamic Reconfiguration of Sun Enterprise 3x00, 4x00, 5x00, and 6x00 Servers
Supported Hardware
Firmware Issues for Dynamic Reconfiguration
FC-AL Disk Arrays or Internal Drives
PROM Updates for CPU and I/O Boards
Software Issues for Dynamic Reconfiguration
Open Issues for Dynamic Reconfiguration
Bug List on the Internet
Cannot unconfigure board in slot 15; operation fails (4101093)
Cannot remove central I/O board (4112730)
PCI I/O board experiences Privileged Timeout Error during Connect (4122455)
ShowMe TV 1.2.1 Known Problems
PCMCIA Issues
If the PC ATA, pcata, module is modunloaded the system will appear to hang (4096137)
The PCMCIA, pcic nexus, driver, does not support 3.3Volts PC Card (4098998)
The PC ATA, pcata, disk driver crashes and hangs the system and causes a memory leaks (4106401)
When booting Solaris 7 3/99 initially with 64-bit kernel the device /dev/term/pc0, PC card serial driver, may not get created (4162969)
The PC ATA, pcata, driver panics the 64-bit kernel (4174177)
PC File Viewer Issues
Install in the /opt Directory
Known Bugs
Sun Remote System Control (RSC) Release Notes
Hardware and Software Configurations Supported for RSC
Supported Server
Supported GUI Clients
Supported CLI Clients
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
SunVTS
Paging Support
Testing RSC Paging
Troubleshooting
Known Issues
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