Hardware

Hi,

I'm new to Solaris, and have been trying to install a Sun StorEdge 2Gb FC card into a SunBlade 2500 running Solaris 8, but have run into a few problems.

I have followed the installation procedure from the Release Notes on Sunsolve as follows:
- Install SUNWsan, SUNWcfpl and SUNWcfplx from the SFS_base_packages.S8 package.
- Install the recommended patches as per the Release Notes
- Then when I attempt to install the QLA2300 driver package from QLogic, it installs but returns the following error.

devfsadm: driver failed to attach: qla2300
Warning: Driver (qla2300) successfully added to system but failed to attach.

I then modify the /etc/driver_aliases file to remove all references to the native Solaris qlc driver, and insert the line qla2300 "pci1077,2312"
When I then install the Qlogic SANsurfer CLI package, and attempt to display the host information, it returns no information about a HBA, despite the drivers seeming to load at boot time attached to hba0 and hba1.
I have used this exact same procedure on a V440 Server running Solaris 9 (albeit different patches) and the installation was successful.

If anyone could perhaps shed some light on this problem it would be much appreciated.

Thanks.