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SPARC T4-1B Server Module
Product Notes
November 2012
Review late-breaking information about the server module.
Document Information
1. Late-Breaking Information
Supported Chassis
Identify Your Chassis Version
Supported Hardware Components
Preinstalled Software
Minimum Supported Versions of the OS, Firmware, and Software
Required OS Patches and Package Updates
Oracle Solaris 11 OS Package Updates
Oracle Solaris 10 OS Patches
Obtain Patches
Important Firmware Upgrade Required Prior to Mixing SAS-1 and SAS-2 Components
Identifying Drive Logical Device Names and Physical Locations
Correlate WWN Device Names With Physical Locations (
diskinfo
Command)
Correlate WWN Device Names With Physical Locations (
probe-scsi-all
Command)
Oracle Solaris Jumpstart WWN Syntax
Interactive Installation Example
2. Known Product Issues
Hardware Issues
Sun Type 6 Keyboards are Not Supported by SPARC T4 Series Servers
PSH Might Not Clear a Retired Cache Line on a Replaced Motherboard (CR 7031216)
2-Meter USB Cable Length Limit (7048419)
Uncorrectable L2 Cache Errors are Sometimes Reported as Core Faults Without Any Cache Line Retirement (CR 7071237 and CR 7071974)
During a Reboot After an Unrecoverable Hardware Error, CPUs Might Not Start (CR 7075336)
Blue LED on Drive Does Not Light When the Drive is Ready to Remove (CR 7082700)
Firmware, OS, and Other Software Issues
fault.memory.memlink-uc
Fault Did Not Cause Panic as Stated by System Message (CR 6940599)
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)
When
diag-switch?
Is Set to
true
, Oracle Solaris OS Fails to Update the EEPROM for Automatic Rebooting (CR 6982060)
Unable to Configure RAID Volume Sizes Other Than the Max Size When Using the
sas2ircu
Command (CR 6983210)
Fault Management Sometimes Sends Resolved Cases to the SP (CR 6983432)
Units Used to Define the MIB Power Management Time Limit are Reported in Seconds (CR 6993008)
Spurious Interrupt Message in System Console When Using Oracle VTS (CR 7038266)
Intermittent Link Training Timeout Displayed During Power Cycles (CR 7043201)
The
cfgadm
Command Might Fail on SG-SAS6-REM-Z or SGX-SAS6-REM-Z HBAs (CR 7044759)
Message From
cpustat
Refers to Processor Documentation Incorrectly (CR 7046898)
Using
trapstat
Might Cause a Panic (CR 7052070)
reboot
disk
Command Occasionally Fails When
disk
Argument Picks Up Extra Characters (CR 7050975)
PCIe Correctable Errors Might Be Reported (CR 7051331)
Watchdog Timeouts Seen With Heavy Workloads and Maximum Memory Configurations (CR 7083001)
ereport.fm.fmd.module
Generated During a Reboot of an SDIO Domain (CR 7085231)
Oracle VTS
dtlbtest
Hangs When CPU Threading Mode is Set to
max-ipc
(CR 7094158)
Cold Reset Adds One Day to System Time (CR 7127740)