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I'm trying to add an old SSA to out E3000 which is currently running Solaris
9.
At the moment I'm gettin ONLINE/OFFLINE messages from the system:
Nov 3 16:01:29 galaxy soc: [ID 854183 kern.info] ID[SUNWssa.soc.login.6010]
soc0: port 0 WWN 8af11e: Fibre Channel login succeeded
Nov 3 16:01:29 galaxy soc: [ID 854183 kern.info] ID[SUNWssa.soc.link.1010]
soc0: port 0 WWN 8af11e: message: SSA110 V3.12 (092297) Mon Sep 22 17:27:15
1997
Nov 3 16:01:35 galaxy soc: [ID 854183 kern.info] ID[SUNWssa.soc.link.5010]
soc0: port 0 WWN 8af11e: Fibre Channel is OFFLINE
Nov 3 16:01:49 galaxy soc: [ID 854183 kern.info] ID[SUNWssa.soc.link.6010]
soc0: port 0 WWN 8af11e: Fibre Channel is ONLINE

I'm trying to upgrade the firmwear on the device since it also complained
about that on boot up.
The patch I'm using to get the needed firmware is 103351-02, the only one I
could find.
I run pgkadd to add the patch ....

root@galaxy root # pkgadd -d 103351-02

The following packages are available:
1 SUNWssadv.1 SPARCstorage Array Solaris 5.3 Drivers
(sparc) 1.0
2 SUNWssadv.2 SPARCstorage Array Solaris 5.3 Drivers
(sparc) 2.1,REV=1.0
3 SUNWssadv.20 SPARCstorage Array Solaris 5.3 Drivers
(sparc) 2.0
4 SUNWssaop.1 SPARCstorage Array Utility
(sparc) 1.0
5 SUNWssaop.2 SPARCstorage Array Utility
(sparc) 2.1,REV=1.0
6 SUNWssaop.20 SPARCstorage Array Utility
(sparc) 2.0,REV=1.0

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]:

and I get this:

Installation of <SUNWssadv> was suspended (administration).
No changes were made to the system.

I haven't had any success installing any of them.
So I decided to force it in by using ssaadm which is already on the system.
The firmware update is in the SUNWssaop.20 package,
so with that in mind I tried running the following command:

root@galaxy root # /usr/sbin/ssaadm -v download -f
/root/103351-02/SUNWssaop.20/reloc/SUNWssa/lib/3.6/ssafirmware
/devices/sbus\@2,0/SUNW,soc\@d,10000/SUNW,pln\@a0000000,8af11e:ctlr

and end up with this:
Opening the SPARCstorage Array for I/O
/usr/sbin/ssaadm: Download Failed

I ran /usr/sbin/ssaadm -v -p
/devices/sbus\@2,0/SUNW,soc\@d,10000/SUNW,pln\@a0000000,8af11e:ctlr
and it seemed to detect the array and type just fine, but when it tried to
get details on the drives it hung.
Is there a step I'm missing to upgrade the firmware? Shouldn't Sol. 9 play
nice with an array?
---Christopher

A@concerned.user wrote:
> I'm trying to add an old SSA to out E3000 which is currently running Solaris
> 9.
> At the moment I'm gettin ONLINE/OFFLINE messages from the system:
> Nov 3 16:01:29 galaxy soc: [ID 854183 kern.info] ID[SUNWssa.soc.login.6010]
> soc0: port 0 WWN 8af11e: Fibre Channel login succeeded
> Nov 3 16:01:29 galaxy soc: [ID 854183 kern.info] ID[SUNWssa.soc.link.1010]
> soc0: port 0 WWN 8af11e: message: SSA110 V3.12 (092297) Mon Sep 22 17:27:15
> 1997
> Nov 3 16:01:35 galaxy soc: [ID 854183 kern.info] ID[SUNWssa.soc.link.5010]
> soc0: port 0 WWN 8af11e: Fibre Channel is OFFLINE
> Nov 3 16:01:49 galaxy soc: [ID 854183 kern.info] ID[SUNWssa.soc.link.6010]
> soc0: port 0 WWN 8af11e: Fibre Channel is ONLINE
>
> I'm trying to upgrade the firmwear on the device since it also complained
> about that on boot up.
> The patch I'm using to get the needed firmware is 103351-02, the only one I
> could find.
> I run pgkadd to add the patch ....
>
> root@galaxy root # pkgadd -d 103351-02

this should be # patchadd 103351-02
not pkgadd !
/Jörgen

>
> The following packages are available:
> 1 SUNWssadv.1 SPARCstorage Array Solaris 5.3 Drivers
> (sparc) 1.0
> 2 SUNWssadv.2 SPARCstorage Array Solaris 5.3 Drivers
> (sparc) 2.1,REV=1.0
> 3 SUNWssadv.20 SPARCstorage Array Solaris 5.3 Drivers
> (sparc) 2.0
> 4 SUNWssaop.1 SPARCstorage Array Utility
> (sparc) 1.0
> 5 SUNWssaop.2 SPARCstorage Array Utility
> (sparc) 2.1,REV=1.0
> 6 SUNWssaop.20 SPARCstorage Array Utility
> (sparc) 2.0,REV=1.0
>
> Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
> all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]:
>
> and I get this:
>
> Installation of <SUNWssadv> was suspended (administration).
> No changes were made to the system.
>
> I haven't had any success installing any of them.
> So I decided to force it in by using ssaadm which is already on the system.
> The firmware update is in the SUNWssaop.20 package,
> so with that in mind I tried running the following command:
>
> root@galaxy root # /usr/sbin/ssaadm -v download -f
> /root/103351-02/SUNWssaop.20/reloc/SUNWssa/lib/3.6/ssafirmware
> /devices/sbus\@2,0/SUNW,soc\@d,10000/SUNW,pln\@a0000000,8af11e:ctlr
>
> and end up with this:
> Opening the SPARCstorage Array for I/O
> /usr/sbin/ssaadm: Download Failed
>
> I ran /usr/sbin/ssaadm -v -p
> /devices/sbus\@2,0/SUNW,soc\@d,10000/SUNW,pln\@a0000000,8af11e:ctlr
> and it seemed to detect the array and type just fine, but when it tried to
> get details on the drives it hung.
> Is there a step I'm missing to upgrade the firmware? Shouldn't Sol. 9 play
> nice with an array?
> ---Christopher

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 00:10:17 GMT, A@concerned.user wrote:

>I'm trying to add an old SSA to out E3000 which is currently running Solaris
>9.
>At the moment I'm gettin ONLINE/OFFLINE messages from the system:
>Nov 3 16:01:29 galaxy soc: [ID 854183 kern.info] ID[SUNWssa.soc.login.6010]
>soc0: port 0 WWN 8af11e: Fibre Channel login succeeded
>Nov 3 16:01:29 galaxy soc: [ID 854183 kern.info] ID[SUNWssa.soc.link.1010]
>soc0: port 0 WWN 8af11e: message: SSA110 V3.12 (092297) Mon Sep 22 17:27:15
>1997
>Nov 3 16:01:35 galaxy soc: [ID 854183 kern.info] ID[SUNWssa.soc.link.5010]
>soc0: port 0 WWN 8af11e: Fibre Channel is OFFLINE
>Nov 3 16:01:49 galaxy soc: [ID 854183 kern.info] ID[SUNWssa.soc.link.6010]
>soc0: port 0 WWN 8af11e: Fibre Channel is ONLINE

If this occurs frequently then I would check the SOC on either the
array or SBUS card for failure.

Josh

My mistake using pkgadd instead of patchadd ... but a new challenge awaits
you! I used patchadd as you suggested and received this output:
root@galaxy root # l
total 32856
drwxr-xr-x 4 root other 512 Oct 28 15:46 ./
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 1.0K Oct 28 19:19 ../
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 512 May 15 1996 103351-02/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 6.7M Oct 28 14:31 103351-02.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 endsley staff 9.3M Oct 28 14:21
SDS-4_2_1_108693_06-solsparc-03-aug-2001.zip
drwxr-xr-x 3 root other 512 Oct 28 16:04 packages/
root@galaxy root # patchadd 103351-02

Checking installed patches...
One or more patch packages included in
103351-02 are not installed on this system.

Patchadd is terminating.

What other software needs to be installed? ssaadm is already installed in
/usr/sbin. When I installed Solaris 9
on this machine I made sure I installed the whole end-user and OEM packages
trying to make the array happy.
I don't have access to the original software that came with the array, on
I'm only finding sparse help at sun.com
---Christopher

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 20:45:40 GMT, A@concerned.user wrote:

>My mistake using pkgadd instead of patchadd ... but a new challenge awaits
>you! I used patchadd as you suggested and received this output:
>root@galaxy root # l
>total 32856
>drwxr-xr-x 4 root other 512 Oct 28 15:46 ./
>drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 1.0K Oct 28 19:19 ../
>drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 512 May 15 1996 103351-02/
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 6.7M Oct 28 14:31 103351-02.tar
>-rw-r--r-- 1 endsley staff 9.3M Oct 28 14:21
>SDS-4_2_1_108693_06-solsparc-03-aug-2001.zip
>drwxr-xr-x 3 root other 512 Oct 28 16:04 packages/
>root@galaxy root # patchadd 103351-02
>
>Checking installed patches...
>One or more patch packages included in
>103351-02 are not installed on this system.
>
>Patchadd is terminating.
>
>What other software needs to be installed? ssaadm is already installed in
>/usr/sbin. When I installed Solaris 9
>on this machine I made sure I installed the whole end-user and OEM packages
>trying to make the array happy.
>I don't have access to the original software that came with the array, on
>I'm only finding sparse help at sun.com

What are you trying to accomplish? I noticed from your original post
the following:

The following packages are available:
1 SUNWssadv.1 SPARCstorage Array Solaris 5.3 Drivers
(sparc) 1.0
2 SUNWssadv.2 SPARCstorage Array Solaris 5.3 Drivers
(sparc) 2.1,REV=1.0
3 SUNWssadv.20 SPARCstorage Array Solaris 5.3 Drivers
(sparc) 2.0

Are you attempting to install Solaris 2.3 (i.e. the Solaris 5.3
component) patches on a Solaris 9 system?

As to the software you can use Veritas Volume Manager with a
SparcStorage Array. The SSA is licensed to use Veritas...at least it
was with older versions.

Josh