Adding PCI Fibre Network Adapter

[kouchpotato]

Hi,

I'm adding PCI Fibre Network Adapter to my V880 to connect a A5200 disk array to the box

If I add the card will a probe-scsi-all pick up the fibre device card?

If not is there a command to install Fibre devices.

Thanks

K

 

[cndcadams]

Probe-scsi-all will only see scsi devices.
try probe-fcal-all.


Also your question above about a command to install fibre devices? probe-fcal-all or probe-scsi-all is low level prom command and does not load anything it just probes attached devices.

boot -r will reconfigure your system and load needed device drives. Run format to verify the fibre drives are seen. If you did not have the card in on original system load, and you have not loaded the complete edition of Solaris there is a potential you do not have the correct device drivers for your fibre card and your system will not see the fibre devices on format.

 

[kouchpotato]

Thanks ..

I have checked the Drivers required and these are all present on the system.

will try the probe-fcal-all and see what I find.

regards

K

 

[daFranze]

if you run any probe.... commands on the OBP get the system prepared the following way (else system may hang...)

- setenv auto-boot? false
- reset (or reset-all)

system will stop booting in OBP
run any probe or test commands now

- setenv auto-boot? true (I keep it false, if there is a failure I want to boot the system over terminalserver and see if there are problems; it's a matter of taste)
- reset or boot

probe-fcal-all is not available in all OBP Versions

If you insert a Fibre Channel NETWORK adapter (Ethernet) you will NOT get any Info about it with probe-fcal-all
boot -r
check the /etc/path_to_inst for new devices (ge, older versions are vge) or just
ifconfig ge0 plumb

Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[z28sarefun]

I think a probe-pci-all will probably tell you if the hardware is being recognized. As stated above, that still won't do anything with the device drivers, but if the hardware is being seen a boot -r should take care of that. If the drivers are present.

HTH
Brian