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

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 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 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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hi,Can sun ultra 5 handle two internal hard-disk?If it is possible, how can this be done?Thanks on the sharing...Best regards ,jhayi

Hello again community!I havent still been able to get a response from my Netra T1.I have setup a connectionLOM--straight cable--converter--nullmodem--minicomwhere converter is the right to left of the following:DB9 PinRJ45 Pin1 (DCD)no connect2 (RX) 3 (TX)3 (TX) 6 (RX)4 (DTR)7 (DSR)5 (GND)4 and ...

PPC macs used open firmware to boot, and their videocards contained forth code in their rom. There are even custom roms for PC video cards which contain code for the PPC mac open firmware.Could such a card be initialized as the primary display device on an Ultra 5?I'm betting I'm going to be ...

I need the drivers for sil3512A onboard sata controller on w1100z workstation for win xp 64 bit.The sun suplement cd contains only the drivers for xp 32 bit. I searched at www.siliconimage.com but they have only the drivers for PCI 3512 sata controller that they don't work. Any suggestions? ...

helloIf I have to assemble a desktop with the purpose of installing solaris 10, what is the hardware that I need to buy ? The hardware list is a little difficult to understand because it does not specify a processor.i want to use AMD / Intel processor, preferably dual core, what model numbers ...

Hello,I want to use two nVidia graphic cards linked together with SLI connector.Ultra 20 has one PCI power supply to attach to nVidia graphic card.How to powered the second card?

Hi.I have a problem with my Ultra 45 workstations: the root disk seems to spin down when the system isn't used for a while, and then takes a few seconds to spin up before the system responds. I have experienced this in both Sol10 6/06 and Sol9 9/05.This is from /var/adm/messages when disk is ...

I connect a USB barcode scanner to Blade 1500 that have attached a USB keyboard and mouse.The OS warn that "Multiple keyboards not supported"But if I connect the USB barcode scanner,and don't connect the USB keyboard and mouse.The USB barcode scanner work well.If I plug out the USB barcode ...

i've installed a sarge distribution (debian) in a ultra1 but sound seems to be death...i 've tryed alsa, open sound and much more....Does anybody know what kind of configuration can i probe to enable it?thanks a lot,Josep.

Hi everyone,I have a ultra 5 that had a 270mhz cpu, it worked fine but was a bit slow.so I upgraded the cpu to a 400mhz. I put it back together and turned the machine on and the hardware turns on, lights come on etc but nothing ever shows up on the monitor. the caps lock comes on and goes off ...

Hi all,I appreciate the soln to this might be "go get a support contract", butsuggestions short of that would be very welcome.One of our SunBlade 1000s fails on power-up with "Data Access Error". set-defaults, reset-all, setenv diag-switch? true -- these and others all result in a "Fast Data ...

I currently have a type 4 keyboard, do i need to use a type 4 mouse with this, or can i use a type 5 ?maybe its just easier for me to buy an entire type 5 set.(I'll be using it with an u10)

I saw this cable "APC 51061-6" available sale on some website. Is there anybody using it for your Sun workstation with a PC monitor now? Please let me know if the cable works fine.

How I can get IP address from my new Sun Blade 2500? I want to install OS from network but I didn't know how I can get the IP from the machine. I'm newbie.

Hi,I need some more information about the two on board etherner adapters of the mainboard of Sun Ultra 40. so far I have succesfully installed solaris 10 x64 and fedora X86_64. after running sys-unconfig and restarting from scratchI discovered the file /etc/hostname.nge0cat ...

Hi,I want to connect an external raid system (Infortrend) to an Ultra 60. I read that the pci bus of the Ultra 60 is compliant with pci standard 2.1. I am now wondering if one of the following cards would work with the Ultra 60:- QLA2310F (qlogic PCI-X 2gb fibre card, specification says that it ...

Hi I have installed solaris 10 x86 in my pc having lg monitor standard monitor 2.54 celeron processor , installation was smooth with no problem , after booting iam not able to get gui it is out of range frenquency error in the monitor ,but iam able to work in cli will any body to how resolve it ...

Does anyboby here knows how many flops are processed by a Ultra Sparc III Processor?or knows how to calculate it by means of commands. I've been looking for this answer.

Does this work in Solaris 10 installs?I've just enabled it and got the 'Bad PBR signal' error indicating it isn't supported! Steve

Hi Forum,my Ultra 20 came with a 250 GB disk, however, the disk layout which was installed by Sun is this:/dev/dsk/c1d0s0 13G10G3.3G76%/ /devices0K0K0K0%/devicesctfs 0K0K0K0%/system/contractproc ...

Hi all,I'm the recent recipient of the Ultra 40, and there seems to be an issue with the screen resolution or refresh rate. Whenever I goto boot the machine, it boots and post fine however when it comes time to login, the screen attempts to change its resolution, but fails and stays black. ...

Hi,I would like to upgrade my Ultra 5 with a PCI graphic card but I don't know how to make the PCI-card the primary card.Any hints?thxMarc

Hello everybody,I was wondering if anyone has had experience with the graphics card xvr-2500 (in an Ultra 45). I connected a Sun 19" LCD to each of its DVI connectors and wanted to use one wide virtual screen. The only option I found was using:fbconfig -doublewide enableI did activate the ...

Hi,my Ultra 5 doesn't boot with my UltraSPARC IIi 440 MHz CPU (it worked until last weekend). I tried an 300 MHz CPU, and it worked. I also tried the 440 MHz CPU in my Ultra 10 -> same problem, it does not come up.If diag-switch? is set to false, there is no output on serial console; with ...

I have installed a Sy,bios 22801 scsi card and a Seagate 72GB SCSI harddisk into a Sun Blade 100.in OBP, I type probe-scsi-all, it can recognize it the scsi harddisk out.But when I try to boot the harddisk it it seems it can't find the device.I define the harddisk as sddisk in the following ...

Have a problem with ultra 1 keyboard (Type 5c). Can I use other type of key boards with ultra 1, for example Type 6?

Hi;I have an old sparcstation20 with 2 180MHz ross processors;I 'm trying to install a SunPC 133MHz card: I just finished to install SunPC4.2 sofware, sunPC4.2 patch, and I runned sunpc_install script (I did all that was specified on sun.docs): it seems to have worked well. But when I try to ...

Hi all, sparc newbie here.I inherited this beast (specs below) and the first thing I want to do is replace the disks (they are really loud).I understand that I can go bigger than 9 gig. Is there a limit as to how big I can go? I've searched and I can't find that info anywhere.I would hate to ...