Re: Add new hardware driver to Solaris 8 on a Compaq Proliant 1600

On Mar 22, 11:26 am, Darren Dunham <ddun...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
den <dchang...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What I'd like to do is install a driver (for the Compaq 3200?
scsi controller card) even though the controller card is not
installed on the system.
Is this possible? Or does Solaris require the hardware
present to install drivers for a new device?

Not normally a problem. It's often just a pkgadd, and the driver simply
won't load when the hardware isn't present.

I've actually got 2 x Compaq Proliant 1600 but one of them
has a bad floppy controller. So I don't know how I would install
the driver without the ability to read from the floppy.

Solaris 8. Is driver required for booting or only for access after the
system is up?

Worse case (I was hoping) is to swap the scsi disks between
the 2 systems.

If it's up, I would assume you could copy the package over the network.

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Darren Dunham ddun...@xxxxxxxx
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
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Thanks for your reply.
I think the problem is more severe than what I explained.
For Intel based systems Solaris requires a DCA (Disk Configuration
Assistant).
And I don't know of anyway to provide this DCA except through floppy.
In other words I can't install Solaris without floppy access.
So you answered one question: I can install a driver with pkgadd.
Second question then is: do you think I can add a driver to one
system (like a transplant if you will) and move the disks to the
other?

I've actually got another problem. The good Compaq is now not so
good.
I installed a Patch cluster the other day and one of the patches wrote
over
my Hardware configuration section (I believe it's the eeprom
settings).
So when I boot it jumps into a kernel debugger. I tried booting from
the
cdrom but it still goes into the debugger. Is there anyway I can
recover
that section? Or do I have to do everything from scratch again?

Thanks for any help.

Dennis.

.

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