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Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 5
Highly Recommended Sun Fire 880 Patch
This patch is not OS-dependant. Included in this firmware upgrade are enhanced
OpenBoot™ tools for service providers. The patch is recommended for Sun Fire 880
systems that have installed versions of OBP earlier than 4.4.7. For more information
about the patch, including installation instructions, read the patch description.
Sun PCI Cards That Support PCI
Hot-Plug
For a PCI card to be successfully detached from a running operating environment,
each device on the card must have a detach-safe driver. A detach-safe driver enables a
single instance of a driver to be closed while other instances are allowed to remain
open to service similar devices used elsewhere in the system. To be considered
detach-safe, a driver must be able to perform a basic Device Driver Interface/Device
Kernel Interface (DDI/DKI) function called DDI_DETACH. Any driver that does not
support the DDI_DETACH function is considered detach-unsafe.
Sun Microsystems offers a variety of hot-pluggable PCI cards that use detach-safe
device drivers. The following table lists the PCI cards that have been tested and
verified as being detach-safe as of the publication date of this document.
Patch ID Description
112186-02 or later Sun Fire 880 Flash PROM Update (4.4.7 OBP)
Sun Part
Number Card Type Driver(s)
X1032A 10/100BaseT Sun FastEthernet + SE Ultra/Wide SCSI fas/sd, hme
X1033A 10/100BaseT Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter hme
X6540A Dual Channel Single-ended Ultra/Wide SCSI glm
X6541A Dual Channel Differential Ultra/Wide SCSI glm
X6799A Sun StorEdge PCI Single Fibre Channel Network Adapter qlc
X1141A Sun PCI Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card ge
X1034A Quad FastEthernet PCI Card qfe
X1150A Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Network Interface Card ce