To prepare for hardware installation – Sun Microsystems LSI22320-SR User Manual
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Sun StorEdge PCI/PCI-X Dual Ultra320 SCSI Host Adapter Installation Guide • January 2007
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To Prepare for Hardware Installation
1. Read and observe the safety information at the back of this book.
“Safety Agency Compliance Statements” on page 27
.
2. Install the Solaris 8 2/04 (minimum required version) operating system on the
host.
3. Install the Solaris 8 2/04 (minimum required version) recommended patch cluster
on the host.
See the Sun StorEdge PCI/PCI-X Dual Ultra320 SCSI Host Adapter Release Notes for
how to download and install the Solaris OS recommended patch cluster.
4. Install any required driver patches on the host.
See the release notes to find the applicable patches for the version of the Solaris OS
that is installed on the host. Also see the release notes for how to download the
driver and any required patches. If needed, see
“To Access the Release Notes” on
.
Caution –
If the driver and any required patches described in the release notes are
not installed, you cannot use the host adapter.
5. Install the SunVTS software on the host.
The SunVTS software is shipped on the Supplemental Software CD-ROM along with
the Solaris operating system CD-ROM. Read the user’s guide listed in
for how to install the SunVTS software.
6. Exit the operating environment.
Note –
If your system supports the PCI hot-plug capability, refer to the service
documentation that came with your system. Then continue with
below.
To inform any mounted users that the system will be going down, use the shutdown
command. Otherwise, use the init 0 command. See the Man Pages for these
commans or the Solaris AnswerBook documentation.
7. Power off the system. Refer to the service documentation that came with your
system.
# shutdown
...
ok
!