Solaris 2.5/2.5.1 x86 Driver Update Early Access

The Solaris x86 Driver Update is the mechanism by which new device
drivers and video support are distributed to our customers.  This
release is an Early Access release.

Early Access Driver Update releases are distributed only in
electronic form and are not available on diskette.  Early Access and
final Driver Update releases are placed at:

Public WWW:
	http://access1.sun.com
	http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/solaris-x86/sunsoft-drivers/

Public FTP:
	ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/sun/solaris/
	ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/solaris-x86/sunsoft-drivers/

Sun-internal FTP:
	ftp://newstop.ebay/sun/Solaris/x86drivers/

All the drivers on this Driver Update have been fully tested by SunSoft
and will appear in their current form on the final version of this
Driver Update.  The only documentation supplied with this Early Access
release is a set of Device Reference Pages for the drivers added
or updated in this release.  For complete Driver Update installation
instructions and documentation on all previously-released drivers, see
the Driver Update Guide from the final version of the previous Driver
Update, available where you acquired this Early Access release.

NOTE: You must read the Device Reference Page for each device you
intend to use in your Solaris system.  You must examine:

	1) the x86 Device Configuration Guide originally 
	   included with your Solaris software, 
	2) the full Driver Update Guide from the previous Driver
	   Update final release, and
	3) the supplemental Device Reference Pages included here.

There are no Device Reference Pages for drivers without special 
configuration instructions.

Driver Update files are compressed whenever possible, to save you
download time.  Files with a .zip suffix are in standard PKZIP form,
files with a .Z suffix are in standard UNIX compress(1) form, and the
.bin suffix indicates a file which could not be compressed.

Any particular file may appear in more than one compressed form.  You
need only one form of each file in the release.  For instance, you could
see these files:

	boot.Z
	boot.zip
	soldrv.Z
	soldrv.zip

You can retrieve either file starting with "boot" and either file
starting with "soldrv", resulting in one "boot" file and one "soldrv"
file after decompression.

The standard Solaris distribution includes an "uncompress" utility,
while unzip and uncompress utilities for DOS, Windows, and UNIX are
available from a variety of sources.

The uncompressed images should then be copied to diskettes, if you need
to install Solaris using the Driver Update, or can be used directly if
installing the Driver Update on a running Solaris system.  To create
diskettes, use the dd command supplied with Solaris, or the DOS version
(DD.EXE) which you can find at ftp.uu.net:/vendor/sun/solaris/x86/dd.exe
or on Compuserve in the SUNSOFT forum Solaris x86 library.

Special notes about this release:
---------------------------------

If you install Solaris 2.5.1 DU3 or 2.5.1 DU4-EA1, and then later
install other SunSoft patches, you may see warning messages of the form:

	103592-02/installpatch[73]: DRV_103087-01=:  not found

These messages can be ignored.

New or updated drivers in this release:
---------------------------------------

aha       Updated driver for the Adaptec AHA-154x SCSI adapter family
          to fix bugs and to provide support for hard disks with a
          capacity of 1 Gbyte or greater

cmdk,     Now supports Solstice Disk Suite (fixes bugs that could
scdk,	  cause stale VTOC or FDISK Partition Table information to 
snlb	  be read or written)

dpt       Updated to improve its error detection and recovery functionality

drvconfig Early during Solaris 2.5.1 installation using the Driver
          Update diskettes, after the drivers have been loaded and the
          message "Configuring /devices directory" is displayed, the
          following message may appear:

            Segmentation Fault(coredump)

          This message can be ignored.

fmvel     New Fujitsu FMV183 Ethernet controller

pcn       Updated to support HP PC LAN NC/16 TP J2405A Ethernet controller

pcplusmp  Fixed a problem that caused a Micron Magnum Pro 200 with an
          Adaptec 2940U PCI SCSI controller to panic during
          installation; fixed a bug on some Pentium Pro systems with
          the Intel PCIset 440FX (Natoma) chipset, such as IBM PC 300
          Pentium Pro and Dell Optiplex GXPro 200
          
smartii   New Compaq SMART-2 EISA/PCI SCSI Array controller