To (hopefully :) clarify LTO-II support on Solaris, I've looked at the
main page on Sunsolve for L700 (which is the library that I maintain):

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/L700/L700.html

It indicates that Solaris 8 is minimum OS for LTO Gen II, and requires
current ST patch which is 108725 for Sol8 and 113277 for Sol9.

So my plans for an LTO-II upgrade will be to have Sol8 servers with
patch clusters from the day before the drives get attatched ;).

There are also other requirements (i.e. additional driver packages)
if you are going to use Sun's LVD-SCSI cards.

One last thing:  You _can_ get burned on patch clusters, in particular
the kernel patch.  We've had several issues in particular with 2.6
kernels, though only once on a 2.8 kernel (which was not major but
just annoying).


HTH,
--TSK

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On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Terry Lemons wrote:

> I've not yet been burned by installing the Recommended patch clusters.
> Using these gets all of the current patches, and has the advantage of
> ensuring that perquisites are met, and patches are installed in the correct
> order.
> [Lemons, Terry]
> So, Irene, you may want to consider getting the Recommended Solaris 8 patch
> cluster from
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/patch-access, and
> applying it.
>
> tl
>



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