SOLARIS Base Server 2.4 FOR X86 DRIVER UPDATE 8 OVERVIEW and INSTRUCTIONS The Solaris Base Server x86 Driver Update is the mechanism by which new device drivers and video support are distributed to our customers. ========================================================================= LEGEND: * - New driver in this release; u - updated in this release The Driver Update 8 includes support for the following devices: DISK - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - u Enhanced IDE / ATAPI (IDE CD-ROM) SCSI Host Adapter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Adaptec AIC-6260/6360, AHA-1510A, AHA-1520A, AHA-1522A, AHA-1530P, AHA-1532P u Adaptec AHA-2940/AHA-2940W, AIC-7870/7850 * AMD PCscsi, PCscsi II, and PCnet-SCSI u BusLogic BT-440C, BT-445C, BT-445S, BT-542B, BT-545C, BT-545S, BT-742A, BT-746C, BT-747C, BT-747S, BT-757S, BT-946C * DPT SmartCache III Models PM-2024 and PM-2124 IBM SCSI-2 Fast/Wide Adapter/A Siemens Nixdorf PCE-5S integrated SCSI (NCR53C710) Symbios Logic NCR53C815 SCSI Trantor T348 miniSCSI Plus * Tricord Intelligent SCSI Subsystem Controller RAID CONTROLLERS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Compaq SMART SCSI Array Controller * DPT SmartRAID Models PM-3222 and PM-3224 IBM SCSI-2 Fast/Wide Streaming RAID Adapter/A IBM SCSI-2 RAID Controller ETHERNET - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Accton EtherCombo-16 Allied Telesyn AT-1500T, AT-1500AT, AT-1500BT Alta EtherCombo-16 T/C AMD PCnet Ethernet controller (ISA, PCI) Cabletron E2210 CNet CN970EBT * Cogent EM960TP / EM960C (TP connector only) Compaq Netflex-2 DualPort ENET, NetFlex-2 ENET-TR Controller (Ethernet only) D-Link DE-510CT * D-Link DE-530CT * DECchip 21040/21140 (see NOTE_1 below) Intel EtherExpress 16 Intel EtherExpress 32 u Intel EtherExpress PRO Kingston KNE-2000T+ Kingston KNE-2002+ Kingston KNE-2031+ Kingston KNE2121H Microdyne NE2000 Mitron LX2100p Novell/Eagle Technology NE2000 Novell/Eagle Technology NE3200 Olicom EtherCom ISA/II Racal Interlan ES3210 Ethernet Racal Interlan PCI T2-STR Samsung SEB-3000C * SMC Elite32C Ultra (SMC 82M32) * SMC EtherPower (8432BT/8432BTA) SMC EtherCard Family SMC EtherEZ Ethernet Adapter SVEC FD0455 EtherBoard SVEC NE2100 Thomas-Conrad TC5043-T * Znyx EtherAction ZX312 FAST ETHERNET - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Cogent EM100 * Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 * SMC Ether 10/100 (SMC 9232) AUDIO - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Creative Labs Soundblaster AWE32 TAPE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The new "st" tape driver is expected to work with a wide variety of 4mm, 8mm, and QIC tape devices. The following tape devices have been tested by SunSoft: ARCHIVE Python 28454 4mm ARCHIVE 2525 QIC-525 Exabyte EXB-8505 8mm Exabyte EXB-4200 4mm HP Colorado Memory Systems PowerTape 1100 QIC HP Colorado Memory Systems PowerTape 2400 QIC HP Colorado Memory Systems PowerTape 4000 QIC HP Colorado Memory Systems PowerDAT 6000 4mm HP 35470A DDS 4mm HP 35480A DDS/Data Compression 4mm HP C1533-00100 DDS2/Data Compression 4mm HP C1534A DDS Tape Drive 4mm HP C1536A DDS/Data Compression 4mm HP C1520F SureStore Tape 2000e 4mm HP C1525F SureStore Tape 2000i 4mm HP C1521F SureStore Tape 5000e 4mm HP C1526F SureStore Tape 5000i 4mm HP C1551A SureStore Tape 5000eU 4mm HP C1529F SureStore Tape 6000e 4mm HP C1528F SureStore Tape 6000i 4mm HP C1552A SureStore Tape 6000eU 4mm HP C1520E JetStore 2000e 4mm HP C1525E JetStore 2000i 4mm HP JetStore 5000e 4mm HP C1526E JetStore 5000i 4mm HP C1529A JetStore 6000e 4mm HP C1528E JetStore 6000i 4mm Sony SDT-5000 4mm Sony SDT-5200 4mm SUN DAT X822A 4mm WangDAT 3400DX DDS-2 4mm Wangtek 9500DC QIC Wangtek 51000 QIC Wangtek 9500DC QIC MP Modules - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Intel Xxpress * Intergraph ISMP6 Compaq ProLiant (Triflex) u Tricord ES4000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE_1 Driver Update 8 includes a generic driver for network adapters based on the DECchip 21040 Ethernet and DECchip 21140 Fast Ethernet Controllers. The adapters based listed above which are based on these controller chips have all been successfully tested with the Solaris driver. We expect that other as yet untested adapters based on these controller chips will work with this driver and we will continue to test more of these adapters in the future. However, some network adapter boards which use these controller chips have failed to work with the current Solaris driver (for example the quad-port Ethernet boards from Cogent and Znyx), and other boards have exhibited inconsistent behavior (SMC EtherPower 10/100). Support for these and other DECchip-based adapters will be included in future Solaris Driver Update releases. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= The Driver Update 8 release consists of the following components (shown with the Solaris and DOS format files names): Device Driver Set: - DU8 REALMODE Boot Diskette (replacement MDB diskette, 1 of 1) du8-sbs.boot -- 3.5" diskette image DU8SBS.BT -- 3.5" diskette image - DU8 Distribution-1 Diskette (patch format diskette 1 of 2) du8-sbs.dist1 -- 3.5" diskette image DU8SBS1 -- 3.5" diskette image - DU8 Distribution-2 Diskette (patch format diskette 2 of 2) du8-sbs.dist2 -- 3.5" diskette image DU8SBS2 -- 3.5" diskette image Documentation Set: - Solaris 2.4 x86 Driver Update 8 Guide du8-sbs.ps -- Postscript format du8-sbs.txt -- ASCII text format DU8-SBS.PS -- Postscript format DU8-SBS.TXT -- ASCII text format Please refer to the Driver Update 8 Guide for instructions. The three diskettes are either pkgzipped for dos postings, or tar archived and compressed for unix postings. The uncompressed *.Z and the unzipped *.ZIP files produce identical diskette image files. For each diskette image you only need to download one of these two file formats. Driver Update 8 is available on diskette or electronically via the Internet (the World Wide Web and anonymous ftp sites), CompuServe, and the Sun's internal ftp server (newstop.ebay). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISKETTE To obtain Driver Update 8 diskettes, contact SunSoft Inside Sales at 1-800-SUNSOFT, option 3 or (415) 336-4960 and request the Solaris Base Server 2.4 x86 Driver Update 8, Part No. ISOS-240-SBS-DU8. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNET via WORLD WIDE WEB To obtain files from the Access1 Web Page: 1) Open URL http://access1.sun.com/gateway/drivergate/driverMain.html click on "Solaris Base Server Driver Update 8." You will be presented with a summary of the drivers available in this release and a list of all the files available to download. 2) Download the desired files by selecting the file name and then specifying a local file name when prompted. 3) Uncompress the diskette image file(s). For example: uncompress du8-sbs.tar.3.Z or: pkunzip DU8SBS.ZIP 4) Using the dd command, copy each diskette image to a diskette. For example: dd if=du8-sbs.boot of=/dev/rdiskette bs=1024k Or if you are using a Solaris system running Volume Manager (vold) use the following commands: volcheck dd if=du8-sbs.boot of=/vol/dev/aliases/floppy0 bs=1024k eject floppy0 5) Follow the instructions in the Driver Update 8 Guide to install the update. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FTP.UU.NET (Anonymous FTP) To obtain the files using ftp: 1) Use ftp to connect to ftp.uu.net: 'ftp ftp.uu.net' 2) At the login prompt, use 'anonymous'. 3) For the password, use your complete email address. 4) At the ftp prompt, set file type to "binary" ftp> binary [RETURN] 5) cd /vendor/sun/sun-doc/x-86-driver/2.4/DU8-SBS 6) 'get' the desired files (as listed above). 7) Quit the FTP session: ftp> quit [RETURN] 8) Uncompress the diskette image file(s). For example: uncompress du8-sbs.boot.Z 9) Using the dd command, copy each diskette image to a diskette. For example: dd if=du8-sbs.boot of=/dev/rdiskette0 bs=1024k Or if you are using a Solaris system running Volume Manager (vold) use the following commands: volcheck dd if=du8-sbs.boot of=/vol/dev/aliases/floppy0 bs=1024k eject floppy0 13) Follow the instructions in the Driver Update 8 Guide to install the update. NOTE: If you do not have access to UNIX and the UNIX tar and uncompress utilities, there are equivalent uncompress and tar utilities available for DOS. These programs are available in the SimTel MSDOS software collection. Two ftp sites that carry these programs are wuarchive.wustl.edu and oak.oakland.edu. You will also need to use dd to create DU diskettes. If you do not have access to UNIX and the UNIX dd utility, you may obtain a DOS version of dd.exe from: /vendor/sun/sun-doc/x-86-driver -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADDITIONAL INTERNET SITES Driver Update 8 is also available at SunSITE USA at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. It is accessible via anonymous ftp from sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/sun-info/solaris-x86/sunsoft-drivers and via the WWW at URL http://sunsite.unc.edu in the Sun Archives (direct access URL file://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/solaris-x86/sunsoft-drivers) Driver Updates are also available on Sun's internal anonymous ftp server (newstop.ebay). Using ftp, log in as described in the above example and go to directory /sun/Solaris/x86driver/2.4/DU8-SBS to "get" the desired archives. Follow the directions in the readme file and then the Driver Update Guide to install the update. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUSERVE To obtain files from CompuServe, establish a CompuServe session and at the prompt type "g sunsoft" or "go sunsoft". Proceed to the Solaris x86 Library ("lib 9"). You can then download the ZIP archive which contains the diskette image files you need. If you do not have an unzip utility (such as unzip, or pkunzip), they are available on CompuServe. Note that the diskette image files must be transferred to a diskette using the UNIX "dd" command or an equivalent DOS utility. The file DD.EXE posted here is a DOS executable that will allow you to make diskette copies on a DOS system. The utility accepts the name of the diskette image file and will copy it to the diskette. The command syntax is: DD.EXE [FILENAME] [DRIVE]: For example: DD.EXE DSKBOOT.3 A: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO ANY OF THE ABOVE: ---------------------------------------------- Call 1-800-SUN-SOFT, option #3 "software upgrades" and request the Solaris Base Server 2.4 x86 Driver Update 8, Part No. ISOS-240-SBS-DU8. SunSoft will send you the driver update diskettes. Or FAX your name, address, and phone number to 415-691-1158 and specify which Driver Update release you need to receive. (Solaris Base Server 2.4 x86 Driver Update 8, Part No. ISOS-240-SBS-DU8.) SunSoft will send you the driver update diskettes. If you're outside the US and Canada, call 310-348-8677. You can also FAX questions to 310-348-8601. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidates for Driver Update 9 (October) NCR 53C825 Fast/Wide SCSI (SCSI-2 Wide mode support) Compaq Integrated 32-Bit Fast/Wide SCSI-2 (ProLiant 4500) Madge Token Ring Adapters 3Com Etherlink III PCI Bus Master 3Com Fast Etherlink 10/100 PCI