Q-Logic 2300 series manual Solaris Sparc Driver Installation, Introduction

Section 6

Solaris SPARC Driver Installation

(QL2300)

6.1

Introduction

This section provides instructions for installing the Solaris SPARC driver in an already installed Solaris SPARC operating system. The naming convention for the drivers, associated files, and messages is QLA; however, the Solaris SPARC driver supports standard QLogic PCI HBAs (QLAxxxx), cPCI HBAs (QCPxxxx), and SBus HBAs (QSBxxxx).

The latest version of the Solaris SPARC driver package is available on the QLogic web site (www.qlogic.com). The files in the driver package cannot be read nor installed from a DOS environment. Be sure to review the Readme.txt file for both new and changed information.

To install the driver from a CD-ROM, see section 6.3. To install the driver from the QLogic Web site, see section 6.4. If you are installing the driver from another media, for example, a floppy disk, transfer the qla2300.Z file to a temporary directory on the machine where the driver will be installed, then continue with step 4 in section 6.4.

6.2

Pre-installation Requirements

Before you install the Solaris driver, uninstall any existing QLA2300 driver using the pkgrm utility.

NOTE:

■If you are uninstalling Solaris driver version 4.07 or later, the Solaris pkgrm utility creates a backup copy of the qla2300.conf configuration file in the /kernel/drv directory.

■If you are uninstalling a driver version before 4.07, QLogic recommends that you manually create a backup copy of the qla2300.conf configuration file.

■To upgrade from qla2300 driver version 4.11 (and earlier) to qla2300 driver version 4.12 (and above), you must remove the appropriate qla2300 driver package before installing the new one, even though the package name has been changed and may not appear to be conflicting.

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