Sun Fire[TM] 15K Servers with newly installed 2222A SCSI PCI Adapter cards ("Cauldron" cards) may not be able to boot Solaris[TM] 8 10/01 (Update 6). As a result, "Dstop" errors could be encountered which would prevent the SF15K domain from booting.

redx>  wfail 

    SDI EX00/S0  Master_Stop_Status0[31:0] = 4000000F 
    MStop0[3:0]: All SDI logic is DStopped + Recordstopped. 
    SDI EX00/S0  Dstop0[31:0] = 000C8008 
    Dstop0[18]: D    DARB texp requests Slot1 Dstop (M) 
    Dstop0[19]: D 1E SDI internal core requested Dstop 
    SDI EX00/S0  Core_Error0[31:0]  = 02008200  Mask = 0051FFFF 
    CoreErr0[25]: D 1E Command pool timeout, non-split exp (M) 
    valid_{slot_wr[1:0],read}_TO = 1 (rev 4+) 
    {cmd_pool_loc[5:0],cmd4io,retired,half_used} = 024 
    FAIL EXB EX0:  Dstop/Rstop detected by SDI EX0/S0. 
    Primary service FRU is EXB EX0. 
    SDI EX04/S0: Slot 0 port is DStopped, SDI is RStopped, requested by DARB. 
    DARB C0: enabled ports (expanders)          [17:0]: 00011 
    DARB C0: other darb req Dstop+Rstop for exps[17:0]: 00001 
    DARB C1: enabled ports (expanders)          [17:0]: 00011 
    DARB C1: other darb req Dstop+Rstop for exps[17:0]: 00001                         

Explanation:

The adapter card, a Dual FastEthernet + Dual SCSI PCI Adapter card, causes the dstop to occur upon boot up at the stage where the driver for the card is getting initialized. The reason for the failure is that the driver needed for the card to be operational is not included in the Solaris 8 10/01 software. Therefore, before installing the software, or as a part of the jumpstart image itself, patch 109885-08 must be included in the image in order for the SF15K domain with the option 2222A card to be able to boot up successfully.

Action:

JumpStart[TM] servers not containing patch 109885-08 or later will fail to net boot a domain containing the 2222A adapter.Therefore, install the patch in the jumpstart image itself and then do the boot net - install of the domain. It should boot up just fine.

See FIN I0794-1 for details on this problem.

Keywords: cauldron, 2222A, SCSI, PCI, dstop, command, pool, timeout

• Comments: joshua.freeman@sun.com
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