[Sunhelp] E6500

[Ravi Katti]

Thanks a lot Dale,

E6500's are running w/o any problem for the last two months with a slight 
older kernel rev(105181-20). Is it still recommended to patch?


----Original Message Follows----
From: Dale Ghent <daleg at elemental.org>
Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] E6500
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 16:37:56 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Dale Ghent wrote:

| On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Ravi Katti wrote:
|
| | Hi Friends,
| |
| | Are there any patches specific to E6500 hardware running solaris 2.6?
| | If so what are they?
|
| No that I can find on sunsolve. Usually the plain 2.6 patch cluster will
| do you good.

Actually, I take that back.

In the latest 2.6 kernel patch (105181-23), there's some e-cache scrubber
routines that have been added. These new routines are for
keeping cache parity errors from occuring on SUNW,Enterprise systems
(Exx00) with the 400Mhz CPU 4/8MB CPUs. If you have this kind of config
and have been seeing crashes, then perhaps this is what you should apply.

Get your current kernel patch rev by running 'uname -v'

It'll say "Generic_xxxxxx-xx" where the -xx is the rev of kernel patch you
are currently running. If it says just "Generic", then you're running
Solaris 2.6, first release (referred to as "FCS").

/dale

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