Moinak Ghosh wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Dave Miner <dminer at opensolaris.org> > wrote: >> Moinak Ghosh wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Ben Teifeld >>> <teifeldassociates at netcom.com> wrote: >>>> To Whom it May Concern: >>>> >>>> I was wondering if anyone who has clear direct experience of successfully >>>> installing the hp/compaq cpqary3 driver to enable use of the smart array >>>> series of controllers could share the details of that experience. I'm >>>> using >>>> a 5302, which is supported in that driver along with the HCL-documented >>>> 6400 model. I am trying to get this working under 11/08. >>>> >>> The 1.90 and 1.91 versions worked with OpenSolaris 2008.05 but not with >>> 2008.11. I have not yet tried with the 1.92 version. >>> >>> Broadly one has to patch the miniroot to add the driver and regenerate >>> the >>> ISO image. >>> >> If it's a root-only package, it should be possible to just pkgadd it to the >> booted CD environment. If not, then bugs would be appreciated. > > Has been tried and the driver does not work in that way. It makes changes > to /boot/solaris/devicedb/master which is used once during ACPI device > enumeration at boot. I am guessing it is related to this. The master file > entries should be present at boot. >
[Dredging up this old thread since it came up elsewhere and I had to go look at this a little] The other main thing that the install-du script on Solaris does is run a devfsadm after the package installation in order to re-enumerate; did anyone try that with this driver? Dave
