Hello All,Looking for some assistance...Just purchased a Sun Ultra 60 from Ebay Specification :# 2 x UltraSPARC II 360MHz# 512MB Memory# SUN 9.0G Hard Drive# CD Drive.# Creator 3D Graphics# Keyboard# Mouse# SUN 21" monitorAnd it came with No Operating System... totally blank system.I ...

HI, I just got a sun Blade 100, the problem is that I get no video or output at all, I turn the power on and it seems to have power, cdrom works, LED is on, fans are working, etc. If I take the memory out (2x256 sticks), it beeps 3 times and then it turns off, otherwise i seems like its ...

Hi, I have an unusual question about formatting standards for CDROMS that were made to run on old Sparc 20 machines. Recently I acquired some software written by the wizards at Quickturn (now part of Cadence Designs) called Quest II. It is designed to configure the early FPGAs that were part of ...

I don't use Sun machines too much, my company mainly sells HP, so sorry for ignorance. But, we have sold some Sun and one customer with an old SPARCstation 20 is reporting a problem.He says that it attempst to boot, giving the bood device name, Sun copyright notice, etc. But it doesn't get ...

Hi,I am running Solaris 10 (3/05) on Blade 100 and I have 2 x120GB hard discs. In boot prom probe-ide recognises them correctly and of course after adding these discs I booted the box with boot -rIn Solaris when I run format command 1st HDD is recognised properly (the one from which the box is ...

I have Blade 100 and 2nd HDD (primary HDD on secondary IDE bus) spins down if not used for a few min and you can hear when is doing it. Then when you need to access a file which is on this HDD it takes 2-3 sec before the file is accessible because the drive needs to spin up. # uname -aSunOS ...

Hi all..I am newbie on Sun systems.I have an urgent problem on my server. The board has gone down and it seems that it will take a lot to hand the new one. My system is Solaris 2.9 os on Sun fire 2900 server.Since there is no error on the disk, i want to install the disk to my older server (Sun ...

Hi,A probably silly question follows.I was given an Intel Pro/1000 Gigabit Ethernet adapter ( 1000BASE-SX )and I was wondering if I can fit it to a Sun Ultra 30. I plan to buy anotherSun workstation soon ( probably a Blade 1000 or 2000, will see ), will itfit there?( I am after a Sun adapter ...

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 ...

On the back of my Ultra 10 there are two connectors for monitors: one is the usual VGA connector and appears to be connected to the motherboard, the other is the traditional 13W3 Sun connector, apparently located on a Creator 3D card that came with the system.I have a Sun monitor, and I can use ...

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 i have 1 SparcStation 20 and i want to connect it to 1 pc with winxp by ethernet cable....the problem is..the winxp not detect the sparc. i did try with a router (dlink 604t) and nothing.the sparc need a special cable on ethernet port?pleasse somebody can get me light y my waymany thanks and ...

I have a SunBlade 100 [out of contract :o( ] which has a blown PSU. It appears to be an almost standard PC PSU with an ATX power connector.I've tried to find somewhere I can buy a replacement PSU, can anyone advise? I found somewhere but they quote 160.Please advise of any cheaper ...

I have a Sun Ultra 2 UltraSparc that does not have a video card installed. I am trying to telnet into the box, however I am having no luck. I have tried connecting via hyperterminal and teraterm to no avail via the TTYa and TTYb ports. I have attched a null modem as well in an attempt to ...

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 ...

Hi All,Can anyone assist in where I can get info on how to customize a Type 5 keyboard's function keys F1-F10 to work within OpenWin? I am running Sol 2.6.TIA,Scott Price

I have a SPARCstation 10 that has a 1GB drive in it. I tried to replace it with a 2GB disk by using ufsdump to copy the data onto the bigger disk and then using the installboot command to install the boot block. When I tried to boot from the 2GB disk, the system would just sit at the power on ...

I am installing Solaris8/Oracle and some other programs on a ultra10 workstation. What happen is after installing Solaris and the patches the workstation reboots. At this reboot the system hangs. I have to power cycle it to come back. this happens again after installing Oracle. Appreciate if ...

I bought a pair of Sun 400 Mhz CPU P/N 501-5500 Celestica 4MB L2 Cache processors which I was lead to believe would be suitable for an Ultra 2, which I have now found may not to be the case. These processors do not fit into slot 0, however they will fit into slot 1, the machine identifies the ...

When I put the Sun Blade 1500 (Silver) documentation CD-ROM in the supplied DVD-ROM drive, it waits for a few seconds before spitting it out again. Anyone know what's wrong?

Hi people,I have a question that I cant seem to find clear and good answer, what system am I suppose to install V5 catia on, where can I download that particular version of solaris, and can that operating system run on the AMD processor or is there any difference between Intel/AMD processors ...

Hi,I am not getting the # prompt when I connect to two of my Sun servers in the network. I am using tera term terminal emulator, with bit rate 9600,8,1,N settings. I am seeing all the messages in the Sun console but could not get to the configuration prompt.Is there any specific key strokes to ...

I have searched Google, Sun Support, and BigAdmin, with no luck.What is IPE, AFT, Fault_PC? Any hints greatly appreciated.NOTICE: [AFT0] IDSPE Event on CPU1 in Privileged mode at TL=0, errID 0x00336246.76d1ffb8Fault_PC 0x100350f0[AFT2] I$Tag (0x14:0) 0x00.03fc1b00 I$state Valid ...

Hello,Im trying to manage some Sun-Fire-v210 by SNMP and Im using mdlogd.conf to get the trap and sending to a hp openview station.Id like to filter the traps wich openview recieves by the ID.For example,rmclomv: [ID 211032 kern.error] PSU @ PS0 has FAULTED.If Id have a list of ID ...

I've fished out a couple of Ultras for a wee project - they've been left idle, disconnected and stored in a somewhat cold (but not damp) environment for about 12 months.They are:U60 dual 360mzh 1536mb RAMU30 300mhz 512mb RAMThey both hang on boot, after memory count, with 'frozen' prompts. ...

I read the post before & am geting close, but cannot ge all the way. I have a U2 E (2 processor 512 MB) , OpenBoot 3.11 Solais 2.9Bought a 18 GB IBM Ultra disk, added jumpers and installed.boot -rI can see the disk in format, but it does no know the specs. How can I find them ? No one ...

Can somebody help me to highlight the differences between the different flavours of solaris OS, say solaris 7,8,9,10. Some major differences for novice user.

can somebody help me to find out different series of sparc processors. The journey of sparc processors.RegardsAmit

Dear Sir / Madam, I have to install a ST336807LW hard-disk in a Sun Ultrasparc 5 workstation (that does not support LBA) wih Solaris 2.6. as operating system. The disk is recognised, but I cannot mount it because when I execute the "format" command I receive an error message and a ...

hi there,I'm still new with sun OS server.question1) can i install dual boot inside sun ultra 60. (solaris version 8 and suse 9.3)2) how to make cdrom 1st boot device. how to get BIOS setup.Thanks.

I have searched these forums and found similar issues. I have tried a lot of the suggestions that were in these forums but I am still not making any progress.Got an Ultra 5 OBP 3.25. The machine boots all the way up and seems ok it just keeps giving the message "IDPROM CONTENTS ...

Hi. First post. Like so many others, I wanted to try Sun systems, so I got an Ultra 10 off eBay. I didn't have a 13W3 connector or monitor, so I pulled the Creator 3D card, and installed Solaris 9, using the built-in ATI video. Now that my 13W3 to HD15 adaptor has come in, I'm trying to get ...

Hi there,I have a quick questions for the experts. My SB1K's Solaris 10 install is set with Kernel Cage eneabled... I was looking up on documents about this, and only found mention of DR Kernel Cage. Is it the same thing? If so, then why would I need that on a workstation with probably no ...

Friends,Just acquired an Ultra 80, and cannot get any video out...Has a 3rd party PCI (LRI 2634) video card in it (which I believe is 5v), with a standard-looking 'SVGA' connector.1. Does this thing output SVGA? Or is it SunVideo with a different connector?2. Does anyone know the voltages of ...

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

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 ...

Hello allI wiould like to run a dual head on my Ultra60 with two fixed frequency monitors at 1280x1024x76. The first monitor works fine afer changing the resolution with "setenv" at the boot prompt. But I believe that I cannot get the dual head working because the second framebuffer ...

Hi all and sorry for my poor english!One week ago I bought a Sun Ultra 5 on Ebay.Yesterday it arrived but because of my monitor (it can handle 1024x768x75 and below resolution(s)) I can't see anything, so I spent yesterday evening searching informations in this forum. Today morning I built a ...

This is on a 3500 running Solaris 8 with Disksuite. We have an application that is pounding on one or two large files in a directory and people are complaining about slowness. That's OK, I know what to do, but my iostat -x stats look strange:<pre> ...

Hi allI just insert addonics USB card to my Ultra 60.It works perfect.Now I have 200GB WD2000JB hard driveHard drive geometry isCyl 16383, Heads 16, Sect 63.Did anybody exercise this before and could share geometry for format program ?Right now I I have 127 GB and I did use configdisk_type = ...

We have just acquired a sparcstation 4, but have not got a Sun monitor to use it with. We can't set it up because we can't see anything to set it up!!Does anyone know a keyboard shortcut to boot into safe mode so that we can get started with it? We are going in ever decreasing circles at the ...

I need to write a script that will copy files from one folder into another folder without overwriting any existing files. The main reason for this is the large number of files that need to be copied (50,000 + at times). I am running solaris 8 and 9 on 2500's and some x86 machines. ASAP if ...

HiCan anyone please help me.The person who was running this machine has left. I am trying to connect to a Sun Solaris 2.5 (Sun Sparc 5) via OSX.3.9.Could someone please tell me how to do it or point to a step by step process?I need to copy some stuff from it and our old method doesn't work any ...

I am trying to use hyperterminal to log into the serial ports.Any tricks or suggestions.Login is enabled, the ports work.Help! please.

I am reading the Memory page in the SUN Systems Handbook:<a href="http&#58;&#47;&#47;www.sunshack.org/data/sh/2.1/infoserver.ce ntral/data/syshbk/Devices/Memory/MEM_SunBlade_150.html" target="_blank"> http://www.sunshack.org/data/sh/2.1/infoserver.central/data/ ...

Hi,First of all excuse my poor english.I have a hudge problem with my sun.context:i get a sunblade few days ago (i'm new to sun's world) and it was used to work perfectly.I've installed a Solaris 10 on it to test it.But.. when i've decided to use ./installer on the 3rd CD-ROM of solaris 10 ...

I have a SPARC5 workstation on a Lucent 5E VCDX switch that the memory is failing. Any suggestions on where I can purchase? The bar codes on the memory are.501247178894323501247178894934501247102197796501247107015964If these numbers mean anything. ...

What kind of keyboard and mouse does an Ultra 10 take? Type 5? 6?

I have an old ultra-1 connected via serial line on tty-a; no keyboard. I can shutdown and power-ff via 'init 5'.But can I get the machine to power-on again via the tty-a port ?

Hello, Do you know of anybody that could help me out with my Sunfire 15K?