Porting Solaris 7 audio driver to Solaris 8.

I am trying to load solaris 7 audio driver on solaris 8. It is not working.
Also I have recompiled drivers codes on solaris 8 still not working. Something must have changed in the audio interface from solaris 8 to solaris 7. Can anyone help me to find these changes. Thanks

This could be a big headache....but if there is a need to upgrade your OS from 7 to 8
then you should be ready for a good backup plan....meaning, if something goes wrong at any
point in the process, you could easily revert back to your old system environment.
If I were the one to do this, I will do the following.
1) I will make use of mirroring. It will be good if you could do it for the entire filesystem
of your OS and your DB.
2) Once I have a mirror, I will simply detach the other mirror and do my upgrade.
Anything goes wrong, I will simply make use of the other mirror to have my old system back.
When you upgrade your OS from 7 to 8, I had seen lots of problem where it could not complete the
process. And the reason is the size of the Filesystem for Solaris 8 specially the root requires
a big size as to any previous version. i usually just install from scratch. But the problem is if
your filesystem for the OS and Applications like your DB are crossing each other then you may have
to rebuilt your Applications too. Unless you had partition them such that they are totally separated.
When you had succesfully installed your Solaris 8, then your next headache is to make sure
all your applicatiions including your DB will be running fine with the new OS. Usually they
would not as they may need to be patched. So that means you have to check the Oracle websites
as for what are the patches needed to make your Oracle runs properlly in the new OS.
Most important is your backup plan, which is your mirrored-disk of your running environment.
Also you have to make a Plan of everything. Doing this will really take a lot of time.
Good luck. I have done this before.....I'm pretty sure you could do it.
just remember , your back-up plan should always be available anytime.

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I've installed the Solaris Audio Drivers 1.0 from:
http://www.sun.com/download/index.jsp?cat=Hardware%20Drivers&tab=3&subcat=Audio%20Devices
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Hi,
I've noticed while trying out the Solaris 10 beta 72
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I connected my 160 GB external usb hard drive to my V240 Solaris 9 server, ran newfs (ufs), mounted it, and wrote data to the drive with no problems.
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Hi All,
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SunOS venus 5.10 Generic_139556-08 i86pc i386 i86pc
# rmformat
Looking for devices...
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drwxr-xr-x   2 root     nobody       512 Sep 30 2009 unnamed_rmdisk
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lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     nobody        16 Oct 1 2009 rmdisk0 -> ./unnamed_rmdik
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     nobody       512 Sep 30 2009 unnamed_rmdisk
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/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0      5.1G   4.0G   1.1G    78%    /
/devices                 0K     0K     0K     0%    /devices
ctfs                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/contract
proc                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
swap                   5.9G   984K   5.9G     1%    /etc/svc/volatile
objfs                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/object
sharefs                  0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/dfs/sharetab
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fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev/fd
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volume management starting.
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drwxr-xr-x   2 root     nobody       512 Sep 30 2009 unnamed_rmdisk
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Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 3 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
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Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
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Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
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#This is a working production system with 2 146.81GB mirrored hard disks. There is no disk error for either local or external 2TB Western Digital USB disks that works on Windows 7 or XP.
Any idea on what else to look for?
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Jack
Edited by: 797805 on 6/06/2012 04:48

Hi All,
Looks like it was a driver / incompatibility / unsupported issue since 2 other much smaller USB keys (Lexar USB Flash Drive – 32GB, SanDisk Cruzer Colors – 4GB) were successfully mounted automatically by volfs service as follows:
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/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0      5.1G   4.0G   1.1G    78%    /
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7      129G   1.7G   126G     2%    /export/home
/vol/dev/dsk/c3t0d0/unnamed_rmdisk#1:c   3.7G   2.4G   1.3G    65%    /rmdisk/unnamed_rmdisk#1
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Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 8 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0In other word, the same question remains on whether it is possible to install a driver to overcome this issue and where to such driver?
It is necessary to install additional driver that came with the disk on Windows XP platform. However,
Thanks again,
Jack

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[email protected]
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