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11-05-2015

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Need Help Installing Legacy System on Newer Hardware

We have a legacy software application that runs on SCO OpenServer 5.0.6, and the current server (built around 2003-04) is still running. I have been attempting to upgrade the hardware, to hopefully increase the time that we will have access to the data in this system, but am running into an apparently common problem with the SATA controller driver.

The server I am attempting to use is from about 2008, has a SuperMicro X7DVL-E motherboard, with an Intel ESB2 SATA controller. The best advice I can find using Google is to try and use the ad320_btld driver that I've found on the SCO public ftp site. However, when I try to install using this, it never appears to get installed correctly. When it lists the devices at the point of beginning to install, it still shows the adapter as "wd", and says that there is no disk detected for installation.

First question is - am I wasting my time, and this will never work?
Second question is - what might I be doing wrong when trying to install the ad320_btld driver? I insert the separate floppy that I have copied the downloaded image file to, but I never get asked if I want to "replace" the wd driver.

Any help would be appreciated - Thanks!

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mega_sas

mega_sas(7D)							      Devices							      mega_sas(7D)

NAME

       mega_sas - SCSI HBA driver for LSI MegaRAID SAS controller

DESCRIPTION

       The mega_sas MegaRAID controller host bus adapter driver  is a  SCSA-compliant  nexus  driver that supports the Dell PERC 5/E, 5/i, 6/E and
       6/i RAID controllers, the IBM ServeRAID-MR10k SAS/SATA  controller and  the  LSI  MegaRAID  SAS/SATA  8308ELP,  8344ELP,  84016E,  8408ELP,
       8480ELP, 8704ELP, 8704EM2, 8708ELP, 8708EM2, 8880EM2 and 8888ELP series of controllers.

       Supported  RAID	features  include RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 6, RAID spans 10, 50 and 60, online capacity expansion (OCE), online RAID level
       migration (RLM), auto resume after loss of  system power during arrays, array rebuild or reconstruction (RLM) and configurable stripe  size
       up  to  1MB. Additional supported RAID features include check consistency for background data integrity, patrol read for media scanning and
       repairing, 64 logical drive support, up to 64TB LUN support, automatic rebuild and global and dedicated hot spare support.

CONFIGURATION

       The mega_sas.conf file contains no user configurable parameters. Please configure your hardware through the related  BIOS  utility  or  the
       MegaCli	configuration  utility.  If  you  want to install to a drive attached to a mega_sas HBA, you should create the virtual drive first
       from the BIOS before running the Solaris install. You can obtain the MegaCli utility from the LSI website.

       The mega_sas device can support up to  64 virtual disks. Note that BIOS numbers the virtual disks as 1 through 64, however in  the  Solaris
       operating  environment virtual disks are numbered from 0 to 63.	Also note that SAS and SATA drives cannot be configured into the same vir-
       tual disk.

KNOWN PROBLEMS AND LIMITATIONS

       The mega_sas driver does not support the LSI MegaRAID SAS 8204ELP, 8204XLP, 8208ELP, and 8208XLP controllers.

FILES

       /kernel/drv/mega_sas	     32-bit ELF kernel module. (x86)

       /kernel/drv/amd64/mega_sas    64-bit kernel   module. (x86)

       /kernel/drv/mega_sas.conf     Driver configuration file (contains no user-configurable options).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |x86-based systems 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWmegasas		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Uncommitted		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       prtconf(1M), attributes(5), sata(7D), scsi_hba_attach_setup(9F), scsi_sync_pkt(9F), scsi_transport(9F), scsi_inquiry(9S),  scsi_device(9S),
       scsi_pkt(9S)

       Small Computer System Interface-2 (SCSI-2)

SunOS 5.11							    14 Aug 2008 						      mega_sas(7D)