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3. Rerun the smosservice command.
Hardware–Related Issues and Bugs
The following hardware–related issue and bugs apply to the Solaris 10 release.
SPARC: SCSI Second Disk Fails to Attach After Solaris
Live Upgrade (6684776)
Some desktop systems might lose access to disks, other than their root disks, while using Solaris
Live Upgrade to upgrade from the Solaris 10 8/07 release to the Solaris 10 5/08 release. This
occurs due to a bug in the power management system.
The following error message is displayed:
System can’t access disk.
Workaround: Disable power management on the system. Perform the following steps:
1. Edit the /etc/power.conf conguration le and change the autopm entry from default to
disable.
2. Update the power settings with the pmconfig -r command.
3. Reboot the system.
x86: Cannot Enable MPxIO (6664694)
x64 systems using the LSI SAS PCI-E host bus adapters (HBAs) such as SG-XPCIE8SAS-E-Z,
SG-XPCIE4SAS-Z, SG-XPCIE4SAS3-Z, and SG-PCIE8SAS-Z, cannot enable MPxIO if more
than 4 Gbytes of RAM is installed.
To conrm whether your system is aected, type the command prtpicl -v. Search the output
of this command for devices using either pci1000,56 or pci1000,58 compatible properties,
and where a pcie-capid-reg property exists and the revision-id property is less than or
equal to 2. For example:
pci1000,56 AND pcie-capid-reg exists AND revision-id <= 2
or
pci1000,58 AND pcie-capid-reg exists AND revision-id <= 2
Workaround: Download and install patch 125082-13 from http://sunsolve.sun.com.
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