[SunHELP] wat is this error/warning ?

[faisal gillani]

well thanks jeremy  you solved all my problem 
& thanks for the advice
--- Jeremy RJ Towers <jeremy.towers at btopenworld.com>
wrote:
> Hi Faisal,
> 
> was this a clean install of Solaris 8 or an upgrade?
> 
> man mlx will show that this is a mylex driver, which
> is not supported 
> under Solaris 8. The man page entry has lingered on.
> Patch 108809-23 
> simply removes the man pages for this driver.
> 
> Have you removed any packages on this system ,
> specifically 
> SUNWmlx for /platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/mlx  ?
> 
> If you have there may be some leftover entries.
> 
> Clean out leftover mlx entries in
> /kernel/drv/cmdk.conf and 
> /platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/mscsi.conf.
> 
>  There may also be  an entry for it in the
> path_to_inst file.
> 
> As always, be careful with these files, know what
> hardware is in the 
> box and have a backup BEFORE you make any changes.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> 
> mlx(72) documents unsupported driver
>  
> The Mylex DAC960E was last supported in Solaris 7.
> The device is for
> the EISA bus. Support for the EISA bus has been
> removed since 
> Solaris 7 11/99.
> 
> 04/05/2002 10:08:34, faisal gillani
> <fasi_74 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >i am running a Solaris 8 intel "no reason to shut
> it
> >down" in a production environment ... although
> there
> >isnt any problem wat so ever but it does give me
> this
> >error in on boot a couple of times ... 
> >
> >
> >May  3 01:54:00 clickonline.net genunix: [ID 115966
> >kern.warning] WARNING: add_spec: No major number
> for
> >mlx
> >May  3 01:54:00 clickonline.net last message
> repeated
> >19 times
> >
> >can yo uhelp me correct this ?
> >
> >take care
> >
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