Solaris

I have a SUN Blade 1000 running Solaris 10 and an A1000 array.
I know that this combo is not supported by SUN but will it work?
The raid manager software is installed and it says that the firmware needs to be upgraded -it is at I think level 2.05 something.
I can see all the disks in a probe-scsi-all but get errors when the system boots.
Should I upgrade the firmware? Do you know what patch to apply to do this?
Is there something more up to date than rm6 that would manage this setup?
Thanks

what errors do you see on boot?
btw, do your part corectly, install the latest kernel patches for your OS, update the firmware for the SUN blade AND the array. if possible, perform a max POST test on the system to detect if there's any H/W failure detected. Then we can isolate the issue from there

And what "raid manager" s/w are you talking abt?

RAID Manager 6.22.1

Here are the errors:
forceload of drv/rdnexus failed
forceload of drv/rdriver failed

Aug 28 16:37:16 tava scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /pci@8,700000/scsi@6 (glm0):
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava glm0 supports power management.
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /pci@8,700000/scsi@6 (glm0):
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava Rev. 7 Symbios 53c876 found.
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava pcisch: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: scsi@6, glm0
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] glm0 is /pci@8,700000/scsi@6
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1 (glm1):
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava glm1 supports power management.
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1 (glm1):
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava Rev. 7 Symbios 53c876 found.
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava pcisch: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: scsi@6,1, glm1
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] glm1 is /pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /pci@8,600000/scsi@1 (glm4):
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava Rev. 5 Symbios 53c876 found.
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava pcisch: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: scsi@1, glm4
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] glm4 is /pci@8,600000/scsi@1
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /pci@8,600000/scsi@1,1 (glm5):
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava Rev. 5 Symbios 53c876 found.
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava pcisch: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: scsi@1,1, glm5
Aug 28 16:37:16 tava genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] glm5 is /pci@8,600000/scsi@1,1
Aug 28 16:37:18 tava scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd6 at glm0: target 6 lun 0
Aug 28 16:37:18 tava genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd6 is /pci@8,700000/scsi@6/sd@6,0
Aug 28 16:37:19 tava scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@8,600000/scsi@1 (glm4):
Aug 28 16:37:19 tava glm invalid interrupt while disconnected
Aug 28 16:37:19 tava genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: glm4: fault detected in device; service still available
Aug 28 16:37:19 tava genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: glm4: glm invalid interrupt while disconnected


The raid manager is RM6 from SUN

I installed the latest patch cluster but no specific kernel patch after that

tava root /414 iostat -xE
extended device statistics
device r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv svc_t %w %b
fd0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0
sd6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0
sd23 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0
ssd0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.8 0 0
ssd1 4.3 1.5 59.7 7.5 0.0 0.1 14.1 0 3
sd6 Soft Errors: 12 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: TOSHIBA Product: XM6201TASUN32XCD Revision: 1103 Serial No:
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 12 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
sd23 Soft Errors: 3 Hard Errors: 1 Transport Errors: 6
Vendor: Symbios Product: StorEDGE A1000 Revision: 0205 Serial No:
Size: 0.00GB <999424 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 1 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 3 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
ssd0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST336605FSUN36G Revision: A438 Serial No: 0219P1N13A
Size: 36.42GB <36418595328 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
ssd1 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST336605FSUN36G Revision: 0438 Serial No: 0137P0JQ35
Size: 36.42GB <36418595328 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

Not sure how to do..........
perform a max POST

at the ok prompt, set diag-switch to true , diag-level to max, auto-boot set to false.
At the ok prompt, power-off the machine and on it back. Max POST will run. capture the outputs. it will stop at ok prompt again, then you can set the 3 options mentioned above to minimal and boot the server as per normal.