Sean wrote:
> Just a quick one to ask if anyone has had any success installing
> Solaris 9 on the above? I know 10 is supported but there are drivers
> for 9 on the HP site. It's a bit of a show stopper at the moment as it
> can't see the disk on the raid controller.
>
> Various Googles etc have revealed very little.

It has a P600 controller right?

are you making driver diskettes as usually needed with the smartarray
controllers?

Where are things not working?

On 15 Oct, 18:59, Cydrome Leader wrote:
> Sean wrote:
> > Just a quick one to ask if anyone has had any success installing
> > Solaris 9 on the above? I know 10 is supported but there are drivers
> > for 9 on the HP site. It's a bit of a show stopper at the moment as it
> > can't see the disk on the raid controller.
>
> > Various Googles etc have revealed very little.
>
> It has a P600 controller right?

Yes.

> are you making driver diskettes as usually needed with the smartarray
> controllers?

I made the rather daft assumption the drivers would be on the install
CD (if they existed) as I couldn't find one on the HP site or an EFS
with it on. I'll have to have another look for them.

> Where are things not working?

I get a message that it cannot find the realmode drivers for the disk
controller just after the hardware scan etc. so if I can find the
driver I think that'll sort it for me.

On 16 Oct, 09:42, Sean wrote:
> On 15 Oct, 18:59, Cydrome Leader wrote:
>
> > Sean wrote:
> > > Just a quick one to ask if anyone has had any success installing
> > > Solaris 9 on the above? I know 10 is supported but there are drivers
> > > for 9 on the HP site. It's a bit of a show stopper at the moment as it
> > > can't see the disk on the raid controller.
>
> > > Various Googles etc have revealed very little.
>
> > It has a P600 controller right?
>
> Yes.
>
> > are you making driver diskettes as usually needed with the smartarray
> > controllers?
>
> I made the rather daft assumption the drivers would be on the install
> CD (if they existed) as I couldn't find one on the HP site or an EFS
> with it on. I'll have to have another look for them.
>
> > Where are things not working?
>
> I get a message that it cannot find the realmode drivers for the disk
> controller just after the hardware scan etc. so if I can find the
> driver I think that'll sort it for me.

Doesn't look like there is a driver on the HP website or an EFS. There
are some ROM updates for the controller so I may try one of those to
see if it allows Solaris 9 to see it. If you know of any drivers or
where I might find them please let me know.

Thanks.

Sean wrote:
>
> Doesn't look like there is a driver on the HP website or an EFS. There
> are some ROM updates for the controller so I may try one of those to
> see if it allows Solaris 9 to see it. If you know of any drivers or
> where I might find them please let me know.
>
You'll probably have to upgrade to 10, those HP boxes aren't very
Solaris friendly.

--
Ian Collins

On 16 Oct, 09:58, Ian Collins wrote:
> Sean wrote:
>
> > Doesn't look like there is a driver on the HP website or an EFS. There
> > are some ROM updates for the controller so I may try one of those to
> > see if it allows Solaris 9 to see it. If *you know of any drivers or
> > where I might find them please let me know.
>
> You'll probably have to upgrade to 10, those HP boxes aren't very
> Solaris friendly.
>
I did think of that and using a Solaris 9 container but that's a can
of worms I don't want to open for this particular problem so sadly not
an option as it is all out of my control. I am just trying to see if
it can be supported on this particular platform, if it doesn't work
it doesn't work. Thank god for legal clauses.

Also a correction on the Controller - its a P400 not a P600 though
it's certainly looking that a driver isn't available. I'll have a
snoop around OpenSolaris.

Sean wrote:
> On 16 Oct, 09:58, Ian Collins wrote:
>> Sean wrote:
>>
>>> Doesn't look like there is a driver on the HP website or an EFS. There
>>> are some ROM updates for the controller so I may try one of those to
>>> see if it allows Solaris 9 to see it. If you know of any drivers or
>>> where I might find them please let me know.
>> You'll probably have to upgrade to 10, those HP boxes aren't very
>> Solaris friendly.
>>
> I did think of that and using a Solaris 9 container but that's a can
> of worms I don't want to open for this particular problem so sadly not
> an option as it is all out of my control. I am just trying to see if
> it can be supported on this particular platform, if it doesn't work
> it doesn't work. Thank god for legal clauses.
>
Old Solaris zones are a Sparc only feature. Solaris 9 on modern
hardware is a bad idea, there'll probably be other components that are
not supported.

> Also a correction on the Controller - its a P400 not a P600 though
> it's certainly looking that a driver isn't available. I'll have a
> snoop around OpenSolaris.

Might be worth a try.

--
Ian Collins

Sean wrote:
> On 16 Oct, 09:58, Ian Collins wrote:
>> Sean wrote:
>>
>> > Doesn't look like there is a driver on the HP website or an EFS. There
>> > are some ROM updates for the controller so I may try one of those to
>> > see if it allows Solaris 9 to see it. If ?you know of any drivers or
>> > where I might find them please let me know.
>>
>> You'll probably have to upgrade to 10, those HP boxes aren't very
>> Solaris friendly.
>>
> I did think of that and using a Solaris 9 container but that's a can
> of worms I don't want to open for this particular problem so sadly not
> an option as it is all out of my control. I am just trying to see if
> it can be supported on this particular platform, if it doesn't work
> it doesn't work. Thank god for legal clauses.
>
> Also a correction on the Controller - its a P400 not a P600 though
> it's certainly looking that a driver isn't available. I'll have a
> snoop around OpenSolaris.

forget opensolaris, just run solaris 10. that card seems to be supported
OK. I run a few SCSI SmartArray cards with solaris 10, they're all gen 5
and 6, but the drivers are the same for non-SCSI stuff last time I
checked. As odd as solaris on a HP sounds, it's rock solid.

quoting Cydrome Leader (Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:19:17 +0000 (UTC)):

> forget opensolaris, just run solaris 10.

Do you really mean solaris 10 is that much better? Or are you talking
production server quality. I for one run sxce for quit some time now and
I am very happy with it. But now that S10 gets ZFS too I'm in doubt. S10
is much more stable (I guess). But for the desktop is lacks modern
software. JDS is very old and I'm not fond of all the extra software you
get in using Blastwave stuff.

Maybe I should go for stability (and peace of mind) and worry less about
desktop performances.

--
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Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> quoting Cydrome Leader (Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:19:17 +0000 (UTC)):
>
>> forget opensolaris, just run solaris 10.
>
> Do you really mean solaris 10 is that much better? Or are you talking

You can (as many businesses do) run important stuff on solaris 10 and
it's going to work. You'd get laughed at by any software vendor if you
said you're having problems running things on opensolaris or other beta
garbage like that.

Aside from some patches and support, the free solaris 10 is the real deal.

> production server quality. I for one run sxce for quit some time now and
> I am very happy with it. But now that S10 gets ZFS too I'm in doubt. S10
> is much more stable (I guess). But for the desktop is lacks modern
> software. JDS is very old and I'm not fond of all the extra software you
> get in using Blastwave stuff.

I think all unixes suck ass for use as a desktop. X is the biggest
trainwreck in software history, and no amount of hacks and extra layers on
it will fix what's inherently wrong about it- which is everything.

I sit at XP machines, and by choice, and run other things from there.

> Maybe I should go for stability (and peace of mind) and worry less about
> desktop performances.

In this case, you have a ML570, which is a server and not a desktop
anyways. It probably has a very "safe" and slow graphics chipset and no
audio in the first place.

For work, I use solaris 10 on sparc- we decided not to use any x86 stuff.
For my own stuff, I use solaris 10 on HP hardware, and have been using it
to replace FreeBSD. These machines support a bunch of businesses and
cannot go down or be rebooted for stupid reasons. They only stop if I tell
them to. They're no question that they're stable.