[SunHELP] SSA and fiber card being a royal PITA

[Brian Hechinger]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:21:07PM -0400, Michael S. Schiller wrote:
> 
> well, before you do anything else, if I was you, I'd upgrade the firmware in the SSA (man ssaadm)
> the new firmware is in the Sol8 distro (I don't recall where, but it's there, I know, I'm a big
> help) There's also new firmware for the fibre card as well. I helped a friend setup his SSA, and we
> upgraded both the SSA itself, and the fibre card (both using the ssaadm command). Hope this helps.

hmmmmmm, well, from the looks of things now, i can't even get the fibre card to
see the SSA anymore.  think i'll try the firmware on the fibre card first and
then see if i can get connected to the SSA.

when it first booted and i saw what version of firmware the SSA had, my 
immediate thought was "holy crap that's old firmware, that gets upgraded before
anything else" 1.3 vs. 3.12  hmmmmm. :)

i vaugley remember upgrading the firmware on the SSA at the one place i worked.
it was actually in the DiskSuite docs i think (upgade to the latest, oh and btw
this is how you do it)

> And on another note, I wonder how many of us out there have machines named zaphod? My pc running
> Sol8x86 is zaphod.agrijag.com ! :) I also have a trillian, and at times a ford, and my domainname

i have a trillian (SPARCserver 1000) and an arthur (DEC 3000/300LX)
on the other hand i have a set of DECstation 5000 boxes (125/133/200/240/260)
that are named after the 5 scooby do characters and my 7 external IP addresses
are all named after Dragonball Z characters.  i've got a wide variety of 
interestes for names. :)  (oh yeah, my desktop sparc20 is wintermute and my
laptop is hiro [well before it died it was] the one should be easy to figure
out, but where did the other one come from? *G*)

> agrijag is also an obscure character from hhgttg :)

oh, come now, he's not _THAT_ obscure.  he does come back in a big way later on
to give arthur a rather bad time after all. :)

-brian