Hi I running Solaris 10 on ULTRA 10 installed.I want to configure D1000 with ULTRA 10.I inserted scsi diff card(x6541) in slot.I hooked up D1000 with Ultra 10, but the system does't see disk array. I tried with devfsadm amd boot -rv. THANKS.......... ...

Hello Support, I have a Sun Ultra 10 used as a workstation for medical equipment/applications. Every morning when it is turned on, it begins to boot up and gives a Boot Failure message for a:. All I do is cycle power and unit comes up correctly. What could be causing this?, Bad sector on ...

I'm trying to figure out what tile cut-out size to use in my data center for these servers. Is the whole bottom open?

Hello everyone !!!I just got a Sun XVR-100 video card.Will it work in the Blade 1000? I know it works fine in Blade 1500, 2000 and 280R which is rackmountable version of the Blade 1000.Does anyone have this setup?Are there any special setup instructions?Also, i have a Sun internal SCSI DDS-3 ...

HI I am using Solaris 9 s9_58shwpl3 SPARC.How do I change the root password?Thanks

hi people... at first, sorry for my english. I hava a Sun Fire 280R with Solaris 8 and today it boot aparently without a reason, it boot 5 or 6 times. The error before the fall is: WARNING: Uncorrectable error detected by pci0 (safari id 00000000.00000008) during DVMA read transaction ...

I apologize in advance if I've posted to the wrong forum, or have missed something obvious (I've been searching the web for a week trying to figure this out).I am trying to mount a UDF *hard drive* created in Linux on a Solaris 10 SPARC workstation (and will also need to do so on a Solaris 8 ...

I have a system with a Sun AX1105-500 board. On power up, the system emits 3 beeps. I do not even get the boot prom.Does anyone know this off-hand or can you point me to a hardware manual that can lead me to the answer. I've checked Sun's site, but the links to documentation for the board are ...

Hi,Ive just bought a second hand e420r server with no HDDs, Im trying to connect to the serial output to confirm that it works correctly until my new hard disks arrive from a seperate seller.Ive made up a 2-3 ,3-2, 7-7 9pin to 25pin cable and connected this to serial A 9600,n81, hardware ...

Hi all,i have Sun Blade 2000. and i bought usb pc keyboard (genius).but the workstation has not work with it. it wrote "keyboard not present" only.i updated OBP. but it didnt help :(i connected sun keybord (from friend) - with it - sun blade was workedhave any ideas?thanks ...

Hi! Since yesterday evening the box does not want to start up. It seems that I can access the BIOS and when I look at the DMI info, the only thing I see is a lot of entries with a date and then this very bad message "System rear fan1 fault" I already downloaded supplemental disk ...

Hi all,Wold you please tell me what is the latest version of OBP & POST for Sun Ultra60 and Sun Blade 1000?(Which patch number for the latest one for those 2 Suns)Thanks & regards,Irwan Lesmana

HelloWe have a V480 that has got a bit mixed up. It used to have16GB of memory installed but now shows the following. I believe these are 512mb dimms and there will be 16 of them on each board, A and B. I assume Board B shows correct and since its 8 way interleaving it must be full. I believe ...

Hi,I am a newbie to Solaris, I have a SunFire V120 box, i was trying to install a tape drive(HP SureStore DAT24), i did the install in this manner.# rm -rf /etc/path_to_inst# init 6later at the "ok" prompt i gave "boot -ar" after doing that it asked me various options i ...

Hello,I have rescued a forgotten Sun Fire 280R. The problem is when I try to boot the host because I can not see any prompt neither a vt420 terminal, windows hyperterminal, Linux minicom or Solaris tip. The host seems to boot ok and the connections property are ok (I think so...): 9600 8n1. I ...

Has anyone seen and have ideas about the following problem. We had a Blade 150 running Solaris 5.8. Once in a while when we would start the boot process by clicking the power button on the Blade, it would light, beep and so forth as normal but the video screen would never become active, meaning ...

We are custom keyboard designers, and we manufacture a variety of Sun compatible Type 5 & 6 keyboards. I need to test the function of the Compose LED on a USB keyboard, and have a Blade 100 running Solaris 9. I can't get the Compose LED to light (even on a branded Sun keyboard), using ...

I have a blade 2000, I want to put it in an enclosed computer cabinent, I want to know if it would run to hot being in the cabinet; also can we rack mount it

Hi,I'm new here and did a quick search, but... I can't find the stuff I'm looking for.I have a Sunfire v100 and the hardware light on the front of the box is a solid amber. Does anyone here know where to download the tools to test the system for possible failures, or exactly which logs to ...

Hi,I saw that Seagate ST336605LC with SCSILC320 interface works for Ultra60. <a href=" http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U60/components.html#Disks" target="_blank"> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U60/components. html#Disks</a>May I know how do I change the ...

I've been having serious problems with our four Sunfire b1600's. Wondering if anyone else out there is seeing it. We have four of these chasis with anywhere from 5 to 12 blades in use.We also have spare unused blades in each chasis. When we go to usethe spare blades, install os and boot up, ...

Hello I'm trying to add a third SCSI drive to the W2100z. The first is a 73GB Seagate, the second is a 147GB Seagate and the third is a 147GB Fujitsu. The first (ID 1) and the second (ID 0) are on the same connector connected to the B channel. The third (ID 0) is on the A channel. When ...

HiI ve got a Ultra 30 with 3D creator. I am trying to connect it to my Dell 15" TFT monito with a 13w3 converter. The problem is that as soon as I plug the converter to the monitor this goes to a save energy mode. Has someone has this problem? Is it related to de refresh rate or pinout of ...

When I logout of an Xsession (gnome/kde/fvwm2) the system hangs (power cycle required) fairly often. This happens when using the nv or nvidia (x86_64-1.0-7667) drivers and kdm or gdm. When I'm using the nvidia driver, after the logout the nvdia splash screen stays permanently up. This ...

I've got an Ultra 10 that I'd like to replace the hard drive in. Here are the specs on it:Motherboard:375-0009OBP:3.31CPU:360 MhzMemory: 512MbOS:Solaris 9 with latest patch cluster as of SeptemberRight now It's got the 4.xx gig drive that came with it. I'd like to replace this with a much ...

I am trying to get some data off of some tapes that span two volumes. I put in the 2nd tape and it says wrong dump date and proceeds not to read it. The volumes seem to cross the day boundary. First volume starts at 10pm next one is 12:45am the next day. Does anyone know of a way to get ...

I am connected to my V120 and the terminal has the LOM&gt; prompt when I type console I get &quot;Console not shared&quot; how do I get around this to the ok console so that I can set up this server?Thanks

Got a SunBlade 150. Trying to install Solaris 8 from CD.In OBP, when I do a "boot cdrom", I get:Boot device: /<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1f" target="_blank">pci@1f</a>,0/<a href="mailto:ide&#64;d" target="_blank">ide@d</a>/<a ...

Hi.Recently I decided to buy a notebook, and due to there is no point to play games on that "low-life-battery" thing, thus I was wondering if there are any sort of Sun notebooks?Or at least any notebook which can support Solaris with all the hardware working perfectly strait out of the ...

In one datacenter we have a terminal from IBM that works without any problems on our Sun-servers, but we also we have a terminal from Wyse. This terminal has a slight problemen, because someone start playing with the settings. I tried to set the setting back as found for the serial console, but ...

Hi All, We have a v20z which had a mirrored array configured. One disk failed and now we are having problems installing a replacement. The LSI BIOS gives an incompatible partition error when we try to set the disk from the original array as the primary.. Help please... Thanks Sidney ...

Hello all:I am using an Ultra5 system with OBP 3.25.3, Solaris 8 [10/01]. I have a 160GB Seagate ST3160812A disk drive that I am trying to use as a second drive (primary slave).I have installed the drive on the primary channel as a slave and performed boot -r. The /dev and /devices directories ...

I have Solaris 9 installed on a netra t1 105 which goes into half every night. I have turned off the power management and the logs in /var/adm/messages does not show anything unusual. <div class="pre"><pre>Oct 19 14:16:25 dev-sol9 pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] ...

Hello. Is it possible to take the video card from a Sun system and install it in a PC? It has VGA hookups. Someone mentioned the BIOS on the video card being stamped with Sun information, so it wouldn't work. I know nothing about Sun stuff, but I wasn'y quite ready to take his word. ...

Hi.I am looking for information about RAM disks. How big they are, costs, performance etc. Where can i find such information. Is there somebody here, which have information about RAM disks (virtual disks).My problem is that i need big disks (70 - 80 GB) and need real fast access.Reg ...

Hi,I occupy myself of 12 sunblade 100.6 are in obp 4 and others are in obp 4.5.I succeeding in installing gentoo on 6 sunblade with obp 4 (silo 1.49 works with it). I use dd to duplicate.But with sunblade obp 4.5, silo doesn't work.I upgrade the obp with obp 4.17, silo doesn't work and ...

Is there a way to go back through the configuration wizard that is launched on pre-installed machines shipped from solaris? We have recieved a v20z server. The steps we took include: Setting the SP to DHCP, logging in through a SSH client, creating a manger username and password by typing ...

I want to mount (14) Netra 240's in a single cabinet if possible. I need redundant power. Looking at the power specs for the 240's, it appear they have a max draw of about <a href="mailto:3A&#64;220V." target="_blank">3A@220V.</a> The 900 & 1000 Series cabinets ...

Started out wqith an Ultra 1 at OBP 3.5. Upgraded it to Solaris 9. During the install I was offered (but declined) the option to upgrade the firmware to 3.11.System booted just fine - very happy.Then in an attack of conscience, I decided to revisit the OBP issue. Downloaded patch 104881-08 from ...

Hello everyone!!!I got me a New Years present on eBay, Sun Blade 1000.Upon its arrival i turned it on only to discover all kinds of problems.So i ran here, started reading about diagnostics and stuff.obdiag ran fine, no errors found. All Devices seem to be ok, but it won't boot. Here is the ...

Hey,I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the maximum CPU for the W1100Z is. I have an older W1100Z with the original Opteron 144 installed and was looking to boost the performance a bit.Since dual-core processors are probably out - what is the maximum supported by the workstation.Thanks ...

I have a sun netra 240 which currently has one 72GB disk, I am adding an extra 72GB disk, my question is do I need to power down the server to insert the new disk or can I insert it while power is on ?

Hello,I have some V210 servers and one of it send me this messages : Message:"MAJOR: PSU @ PS0 has FAULTED."If I look the "showenvironment" on the RSC I have this :--Power Supply Indicators: --SupplyActive Service OK-to-Remove--PS0OFFONOFF Power Supplies: Supply Status ...

Does anyone know the disk drive height limitation of Sun Ultra model 140E? What are the disk drive interfaces supported by it? I'm having a hard time looking for documents indicating Sun Ultra 1 model 140E's specifications and limitations.

Hi All,Coming monday I get my Ultra 20 M2 (jay!) and I was wondering what kind of things people have tried upgrading/modifying. From the customer stories at the sun page I already saw that people have had great success with various nvidia graphics cards! I am specifically curious about* Other AM2 ...

I have a V240 (2x1.5ghz) and I am trying to connect to it using the hyper terminal on Windows XP, but all I get is unrecognizable characters. I have my port set to COM 1 ( using a Cisco crossover cable), 9600-8-N-1 , and it connects, but the just spits out gibberish.

Has anyone else seen problems with their XVR-300 cards?We have an Ultra 45 with two XVR-300s running a patched Solaris 10 11/06."doublewide mode" is enabled, as well as XineramaWe have seen a number of problems related to X drawing operations.Here is the first one.Because the problems appear to ...

What are the extent of the power-saving features on an Ultra 80 workstation? I know it can shut down the drives at idle, but can it also adjust the internal fan speeds depending on system load? Can it adjust the CPU frequencies?The reason I ask is because my U80 is extremely loud and generates ...

Alright here is the scenario, first post and pretty new to sun hardware so bear with me. I have a v490 here with 2 CPU 1.8 boards and for whatever reason slot B wasn't getting power to it (led indicator wasn't on). As a result, I was only getting half my configuration. I thought the board was ...

Can someone tell me what this means: RoHS:YL ServerExample:* Sun Fire v490 Servervs* Sun Fire v490 RoHS:YL ServerThanksJeff W