Was wondering if anyone got the RDAC component to work under Solaris 9.
Thanks.

-Chuck

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>>Was wondering if anyone got the RDAC component to work under Solaris 9.
>>Thanks.
>>
>>-Chuck
>
>
> Are you talking about the FAStT product line? What problems are you
> finding?
>
> Steve
>

Yes, that Fast line. We are using FastT-700's. RDAC works fine under
Solaris 8 but under Solaris 9 it does not work.

When the system is booting, when it get's to the point where it fwutil
does it's thing, the system hangs for about 45 - 60 minutes but then
finally comes up. I have tried the last 3 versions of the Storage
Manager software (that includes RDAC).

My HBA's are Emulex LP8000's.

Thanks for any help,
CC

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> >>Was wondering if anyone got the RDAC component to work under Solaris 9.
> >>Thanks.
> >>
> >>-Chuck
> >
> >
> > Are you talking about the FAStT product line? What problems are you
> > finding?
> >
> > Steve
> >
>
> Yes, that Fast line. We are using FastT-700's. RDAC works fine under
> Solaris 8 but under Solaris 9 it does not work.
>
> When the system is booting, when it get's to the point where it fwutil
> does it's thing, the system hangs for about 45 - 60 minutes but then
> finally comes up. I have tried the last 3 versions of the Storage
> Manager software (that includes RDAC).
>
> My HBA's are Emulex LP8000's.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> CC

This is a known problem with the RDAC driver and there is a workaround.
Simply edit /kernel/drv/rdnexus.conf and comment out most of the
entries in the file. I'm running this on a V880 with two LSI44929O host
adapters and have it working much better. The system has the two
built-in host adapters (FC for internal hard drives and SCSI for
DVD-ROM drive), and then the four FC buses from the two dual-FC LSI
host adapters, so I commented out entries 6-63 from the rdnexus.conf
file, leaving the six entries numbered 0-5 in the file. After doing
this, the system will boot much faster. It will still pause for a
couple minutes while the driver is loading, but it is much faster than
the default config with the 64 rdnexus entries.

Steve

This bug should be fixed with sun Maintenance Update 4 for Solaris 9
(didn' t test it).

Nikolaj

Steve Waltner <swaltner-a@cox.net> wrote:

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> > >>Was wondering if anyone got the RDAC component to work under Solaris 9.
> > >>Thanks.
> > >>
> > >>-Chuck
> > >
> > >
> > > Are you talking about the FAStT product line? What problems are you
> > > finding?
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> >
> > Yes, that Fast line. We are using FastT-700's. RDAC works fine under
> > Solaris 8 but under Solaris 9 it does not work.
> >
> > When the system is booting, when it get's to the point where it fwutil
> > does it's thing, the system hangs for about 45 - 60 minutes but then
> > finally comes up. I have tried the last 3 versions of the Storage
> > Manager software (that includes RDAC).
> >
> > My HBA's are Emulex LP8000's.
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > CC
>
> This is a known problem with the RDAC driver and there is a workaround.
> Simply edit /kernel/drv/rdnexus.conf and comment out most of the
> entries in the file. I'm running this on a V880 with two LSI44929O host
> adapters and have it working much better. The system has the two
> built-in host adapters (FC for internal hard drives and SCSI for
> DVD-ROM drive), and then the four FC buses from the two dual-FC LSI
> host adapters, so I commented out entries 6-63 from the rdnexus.conf
> file, leaving the six entries numbered 0-5 in the file. After doing
> this, the system will boot much faster. It will still pause for a
> couple minutes while the driver is loading, but it is much faster than
> the default config with the 64 rdnexus entries.
>
> Steve