Hi all,I need some advice on what is a frustrating problem!I recently relocated my Ultra 60 but can't get it to boot up anymore. With the keyboard attached all i get on screen is the following:Can't open input device.Keyboard not present. Using ttya for input and output.The keyboard is ...

Hi,after hotplugging a SPARC CPU-5V onto a VME backplane, we couldn't boot from the SCSI disk anymore. Boot from SCSI CD-ROM didn't work either. At the OPB prompt, diag tests speak about DMA failure.ok boot cdrom -sBoot device: /iommu/sbus/<a href="mailto:espdma&#64;5" ...

Hi,Couldn't find any topic about this in the Handbook, or search, so this question is unique.:-)I recently purchased an Ultra 60 (always wanted to have one like that), and 'll have to replace the DVD drive.Seen from the front, the left side panel is opened quite easily.But the DVD drive is ...

Hi folks,i have a sun ultra 60 with a 450 Mhz CPU. Now I have got a 300 Mhz CPU.Can I now put the 300 Mhz CPU in the second slot or must it a 450 Mhz?What would happen, if I put the 300 Mhz CPU in the second slot?

I have a Sun Ultra 1 Creator which currently has Solaris 8. I am currently downloading Solaris 10 and planning to reinstall from scratch. The Ultra 1 is pretty old and I dont have the password. Is there anything extra I need to do to make sure the Ultra1 boots from the cd-rom?Has anyone had any ...

Well, I've had this Ultra5 for a little while, and have started to do some upgrading. It's a 270mhz, with 640 Mb of ram, DVD-ROM, PGX24 card on the PCI bus, and a Belkin FU5220 UBS card....Both PCI cards are in 33mhz slots. I'm running Solaris 10.My problems center around the USB and the ...

This thing is killing me! Sun Blade 150 1.25GB RAM / 2x 120GB HD, Solaris 10 While installing Tarantella on my system I got a /var file system full and the system crashed. Tried to boot -s and the system can't find boot device. Last time I was able to get access to the drive again but no ...

I have an Ultra2 trying to hook up to a switch ,will a jni fc64-1063 work with this or do I needthe x6757a ?

Hi all,I have a Sun Type 6 PS/2 keboard connected to my Ultra 5 running Solaris 8. The mouse is connected to the keyboard (Sun Mouse).One of the support guys was messing around in the lab with keyboards, monitors etc and now the mouse will not work.He disconnected the Monitor and keyboard from ...

Hi everyoneThey say when it doesn't rain, it pours. Well, in the middle of a development landscape refresh, one of my production application servers have suddenly gone bonkers.Up untill a day or two ago all was fine. Then suddenly the proc directory started growing out of control. Inside are ...

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 ...

Hi guys,I've got an Ultra 10 that is functional and I can connect to it over the network. However I am trying to connect to Serial Port A and it's not happening.I've done the following:eeprom output-device=ttyaeeprom input-device=ttyaand I am using connectors 530-2889-03 on the Ultra 10 side ...

Hi !I wish to know performance differences between the two following configurations:a) Ultra 80 / 4 x 450 Mhz / 4 GB Ram / XVR-1000b) Blade 2000 / 2 x 1015 MHz / 4 GB Ram / XVR-1000Is the performance difference worth the upgrade from the Ultra 80 to the Blade 2000 ?Thanks a lot and have a nice ...

Hi,I have read some of the existing threads regarding loadkeys and such. My question, before I bug our IT dept. is what is the cleanest way to use a plain USB PC keyboard on a new Sun SPARC.I have a HHKB Pro kb and I don't need any special Sun keys. I am using a simple USB KVM between Sun and ...

I have a Sparc 20 that was being used as a license server. The SCSI controller on the system board does not recognise disk drives anymore. I am trying to persuade Engineering to re-license the software for another machine/hostid, but I know they are going to balk. My questions:1) Does anyone ...

Hi: I have a Sun Fire V440 box (2 CPU, 4G Ram, a 3510 disk storage). I login from other machines (Sun Blade 2500), the response of the shell is very slow. However, the shell opened on the Sun Fire V440 box is reasonable. I suspect the network problem and thus change the network cables but ...

Hi all,I got a problem with my Ultra 5 computer I was hoping someone would know something about.Originally I had a 270 MHz CPU which I changed with a 440 MHz CPU I purchased on Ebay. I installed the 440 MHz CPU and turned the computer on. However the banner during startup says I have a 333 MHz ...

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 ...

How do I connect a monitor to a VME 5v cpu?I don't see any vga output on this board. Thanks.

Hello,I recently got 2 used Sun systems: an Ultra 2 Creator and a Storedge A1000. I have the boxes but no cables whatsoever. I also got an Apex Sun Trap, which hopefully will let me hook up the Sun boxes to my PC monitor and keyboard/mouse. I just ordered a 13W3 M/M cable which should connect ...

Hi there,for my Ulra60 (2x 360MHz) I tried to replace the original Toshiba XM-6201Bwith the Teac CD-R58S drive.With this drive, the machine won't boot from CD. SCSI-ID ist set to 6. Terminator is on the cable.Booting from disk and copying a full 700MB-CD to disk ist working fine.Both drives, ...

Hi there,my Ultra 30 does not connect to the ethernet-switch if the TP-patchcable (cat.5) is shorter than approx. 10 meters (30 ft).With a longer cable it works fine.I can reproduce this with two different switches, both dual-speedSome suggestions?73Peter ...

How does one go about changing screen resolution on an Ultra 10? The default is killing my eyes.

I received an Ultra 80 w/ 2 gigs Ram and 2 ea CPU's. from a friend. When system is turned on, it display banner, while initizing memory I type stop A. System responds with ok. I have run all the diagnostics and everything seems to be OK. As soon as I type boot, boot -s, or boot CDROM the ...

Anyone net booted a T1000/2000 yet? Do these have open boot? Will they boot from a "conventional" rpc.bootparamd Jumpstart server?I ask because we ordered some X4100s and we are returning them because the ILOM SP is so buggy and the PXE boot process is so poorly documented, and we ...

Hi Folks,I'm new to the SUN realm, so please excuse my ignorance if its obvious.I have the following Confg:Ultra 5 Sparc IIi 270MhzOBP 3.31( I believe its the latest)256MbSolaris 8 (not sure if the latest patch has been installed)Pri HD WD 30Gb. <- working and fine* Sec HD - ST3802110A ...

I have an Ultra Enterprise 450 2x300Mhz. I want to install another 8Gig or 18Gig Scsi hard disk to the current configuration, but I dont want to re-install solaris, without giving any damage to the system.How can i do this without losing any data in the current config.Regards. ...

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

Does SunBlade's 150 IDE controller supports 48bit LBA?Thanks.

I just purchased a Sun Ultra 60 Creator 3D Workstation from eBay to begin learning about Sun & Solaris. I have so far been unable to get the machine to boot (there appears to have been file system corruption on the hard drive). I had intended to do a fresh load of Solaris 10 on it anyway, ...

Hi, All.I've been trying to get my U30 (Solaris 8) to talk to a "new" Fujitsu HDD MAG3182LC that I picked up. I get lots of bus resets, but no formatting. Suggestions? Am I asking too much of this older creature?TIA,Donald.

I have an ultra 10. It has a 9.1 gig ide drive; I switched it out for a 40 gig one but it the system only sees 5 gig when I go to install Solaris. Is there a trick I need to do to get it to see all 40 gb?

Ok please bear with me as I'm a total newbie when it comes to sun hardware and solaris.The ethernet adapter on my Ultra 10 doesn't show up in ifconfig -a and neither does it show up in the GUI tool. The only thing showing is the loopback lo0.How can I assign an IP to my ethernet adapter? Is ...

who do we complain to about this ugly forum style?haroldb formally known as haroldkarl

after about 1-2 weeks of using solaris 10 Ethernet stops working entirely. Even under knoppix the ethernet does not work, i run diagnostics and it indicates that the NIC is working. The only way to fix the problem seems tobe reinstalling Solaris 10 and Wiping the harddisk. I am using a Sun ...

Solaris 10 dont load a driver to the card.I install it on a Sun Blade 100 (400Mhz 512Mbyte) with a PCI busOBP 4.2.2 2001/04/26 15:00 Sun Blade 100POST 1.2.6 2000/08/30 21:20and after installing Solaris 10 there is no driver attached to the card.If I run prtconf -pv I get....pci9005, 250 (driver ...

Hello allWill a 501-5445 400MHz UltraSparc II from a E250 run in a E450? The 400Mhz UltraSparc II Module for the E450 has a differend Part number 501-5446.The 250MHz and 300MHz modules are interchangeble between the E250 and the E450.Thanks

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 ...

Hi All, I am getting the following error after running the post on V440 server, Testing /pci@1e,600000/ide@dERROR: ATAPI device not presentDEVICE: /pci@1e,600000/ide@dSUBTEST: selftest:identify-atapiLooks like the DVD Rom is having problem. Has anyone faced this kind of error before? Can ...

Running Gentoo Linux, kernel 2.6.15, bios version R01-B3 51, 3G RAM, Opteron 150, X.org 7.0, nvidia drivers 1.0.8178.When I try to use 3D in X, the system reboots immediately (no oopses, etc). That's happening with both the supplied Quadro FX 500 or a 3rd party Geforce FX 5900 card. This issue ...

Hi I have a disk pack with part code 599-2420-01 this is attached to a V480.I want to renew the service with Sun.But they are saying that this is not a standard item.From where can i find the actual name of this.please give me ore information about this part 599-2420-01

I've got a netra X1 with a 400mhz CPU in it now. What is the fastest compatible chip I can run in it? I assume it'd be a Sparc II of sorts.Thanks!- j

Is 36GB still the largest disk the E250 supports in the internal slots?Thanks,Harry

G'day, i really need help with my test SunRay network,I want to upgrade the firmware from 2.0 to 3.1, i think they are 2.0 right now!!I run ./utfwsync and it counts down from 60 but they the sunray restarts about 4 times and then comes back with the same firmware!!!Not sure what to do about ...

Hi, I'm new to Sun equipment. I have an E420R with 4 sparcs II, 4GB RAM 2 SCSI...I need to install an operating system to it, Solaris/Linux/FreeBSD, it'll be a testing server so it could be any supported OS. The fact is that I can't make it boot, even have anything on screen....I'm using a ...

Hi everybody,The past days, i worked installing open source software in a sunfire 3800 server. When i boot my server, i noticed that there are no network interfaces, even the loopback adapter, i did a plumb to the adapters (lopback included), but when i reboot the server, they抮e still ...

We have Sun Blade 2500 running Solaris 9 with an XVR-1200 graphics card in it. We need to be able to change the video resolution, but for some reason this system has lost the capability to do so. We've tried repeatedly invoking the "fbconfig -res" command to re-define it, but the system simply ...

I am looking to purchase just the case / chassis w/ power supply of an Ultra 40.Does anyone know how I would go about doing this?I have talked to sun spare parts and they couldn't help me. Any ideas?Thanks in advance.

Hello All,I have an Ultra-5_10 box. I had to order for an external storage box. The storage capacity that I am looking for is 2 * 72GB. I want to know what is the type of SCSI card the system will be having ? What is the option to find it. From dmesg output I could find the following message. ...

I have an Ultra-10 (UltraSPARC-IIi) 440MHz. Would I be able to upgrade it with this CPU and if so would the performance be much better? http://shopper.cnet.com/501_5149_ASSEMBLY_440MHZ_2MB_ULTRA_10/4014-3086_9-16013 03.html...or is the socket completely different?Thanks! ...