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Solaris 7 8/99 Release Notes Supplement for Sun Hardware
Book Information
Chapter 1 Late Breaking News
Service Contract Upgrades to the Solaris 7 8/99 Operating Environment
Unbundled Product Support
Documents on the Software Supplement for the Solaris 7 8/99 Operating Environment for Sun Computer Systems CD
Flash PROM Update for 64-bit Operations
Flash PROM Update Multimedia AnswerBook CD
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)
Serial Parallel Controller Driver Does Not Support Dynamic Reconfiguration (4177805)
ISDN -- Supported in 32-bit Mode Only
SunScreen SKIP 1.1.1 Not Supported in Solaris 7 8/99 Operating Environment
Solstice SyMON Not Supported in Solaris 7 8/99 Operating Environment
SunVTS 3.3 Issues
New Features for This Release
SunVTS OPEN LOOK User Interface Support
Running SunVTS Online Diagnostics through Sun Enterprise SyMON
StorEdge-A5XXX Device Group Changes
Disk Test (disktest) Mounting Issues
Disk Test (disktest) Option File Note
Physical Configuration Mapping Support
The SunVTS User Interface Disappears (4122829)
Some Devices Not Displayed Under Physical Mapping (4228489)
The enatest and socaltest Cannot Run at the Same Time (4065417)
The socaltest FATAL: Failed ioctl FCIO_DIAG_XRAM (4065420)
The socaltest Can Fail Under Heavy System Load (4213518)
ShowMe TV 1.3 Known Problems
Software
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 8/99 operating environment 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
What's New in This Version
Hardware and Software Configurations Supported for RSC
Supported Server:
Supported GUI Clients:
Supported CLI Clients:
Ethernet Support:
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS):
Paging Support:
Testing RSC Paging
Troubleshooting
Known Issues
Copyright Notices
SunForum 2.0 Notices:
ShowMe TV 1.3 Notices:
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Copyright 1990-1993 GROUPE BULL
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Netscape Communicator Notices:
Sun Enterprise 10000 SSP 105684-04, 106281-01, and 106282-01 Notices:
Documentation Errata
Platform Notes: The hme SunFastEthernet Device Driver Guide
SunForum BugID 4234195
System Service Processor
Known Bugs
4251250 - ssp_upgrade script does not handle errors from pkgadd in a good way
4249098 - SUNWsspue post-install gets permissions wrong on dtwmrc
Fixed Bugs
Patches
Patch-ID 108080-01
Documentation Errata
Printing the SSP 3.1.1 User Guide and Reference Manual
Solaris Web Start and the Supplement CD
Chapter 4 Sun Enterprise 10000 Release Notes
Sun Enterprise 10000
General Issues
Solaris 7 8/99 and Boot-Disk Partition Sizes
Solaris 7 8/99 and Driver Variables
Operating Mode
Solaris 7 8/99 and the SSP
Patch-ID 105684-04
Patch-ID 106281-01
Patch-ID 106282-01
SunFDDI
SunATM 4.0 Update 1
Known Bugs
4231845 - Cannot Detach System Board if the in.rarpd Daemon is Running and /rplboot Exists
Fixed Bugs
Documentation Errata
OBP Variables
AP on the Sun Enterprise 10000 Server
Installation Issues
General Issues
Supported Devices
SunFDDI Devices
Sun StorEdge A3000
Sun StorEdge A5000
Sun StorEdge A7000
Software Compatibility
Known Bugs
Fixed Bugs
Chapter 5 Sun Enterprise 6x00, 5x00, 4x00, and 3x00 Systems Open Issues
AP on Sun Enterprise Servers
Installation Issues
General Issues
Supported Devices
SunFDDI and GigabitEthernet Devices
Sun StorEdge A3000
Sun StorEdge A5000
Sun StorEdge A7000
Software Compatibility
Fixed Bugs
Dynamic Reconfiguration of Sun Enterprise 6x00, 5x00, 4x00, and 3x00 Systems
Supported Hardware
Firmware Notes
FC-AL Disk Arrays or Internal Drives
PROM Updates for CPU and I/O Boards
How To Obtain Firmware
Software Notes
Enabling Dynamic Reconfiguration
Quiesce Test
Disabled Board List
Disabled Memory List
Unloading Detach-Unsafe Drivers
Interleaved Memory
Self-test Failure During a Connect Sequence
Dynamic Reconfiguration Feature in Sun Enterprise SyMON Software
Known Bugs
cfgadm -v Not Working Properly, bug-ID 4149371
Memory Interleaving Set Incorrectly After a Fatal Reset, Bug-ID 4156075
vmstat Output Is Incorrect After Configuring Processors, Bug-ID 4159024
POST System Board Status Displays Only 1 of the 2 Failing CPUs, Bug-ID 4200513
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
Fatal Reset on init 5 After DR Operations, Bug-ID 4220852
Cannot Drain And/or Detach Sun Enterprise Server Boards That Host QFE Cards, Bug-ID 4231845
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