Hi AllI wanted some information on the device convention in solaris .We have a E4500 server having two ethernet port , one of them is hme0 and we are not able to figure whats the name of the other so that we can use it to connect another cable to the backbone to speed up the systembelow is the ...

Hi there,I'm trying to mirror the disks in my Sun Fire 280R following the instructions detailed on http://www.nbl.fi/~nbl97/raid1.htmlWhen it comes to doing the metaroot and rebooting the server then doesnt boot in to solaris 9 claiming:mount: d0 is not this fstypeand then complaining that it ...

I have a SunFire V210, that was not purchased with a CDROM drive. I need to reinstall Solaris10 on it, and do not have a network install server at my service. Is it posible to boot to a USB CDROM from the "Break" prompt in ALOM, if so what is the syntax that would support this? I have tried ...

I recently acquired a used ultra 10 on ebay. During post the caps lock blinks as expected, occasionally becomes solid on and the machine beebs. WIth the 3d creator card, after about 5-10 minutes the monitor kicks on but i get a blank screen (all black). If I use the vga port with the onboard it ...

Hello,I am quite a noob when it comes to hardware. We have an option of purchasing 2 Sun Fire servers (one for Oracle and one for a Java application). We can either choose the Sun Fire V490 or Sun Fire V4900. If you compare the Sun Fire V490 medium configuration to the Sun Fire V4900 small ...

hi ppl,im pretty new to all this so if the question doesnt make any sense, ah well ... i did not read through any of the docs on the web yet ... im kinda in the process ... ok this is the deal ... ive got a server sunfire v210 with ALOM ... lets say ip address of the server is 10.239.18.79 ...

Does the A1000 support the 146GB (X5268A) drives?Thanks,Harry

Has anyone gotten dual-display to work with a Sun Ultra 40 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.0? The dual-display works when booting and shutting down but doesn't work in normal operation when the machine is booted. I've tried both the nvidia driver that comes on the disc with the machine and ...

The system simply power cycles randomly while being used. No amber light, no "rear fan1 fault" message in the bios. I've upgraded the BIOS previously to correct a rear fan1 fault in the past (a few months ago). It is now at R01-B4 S4, from the supplemental disk 2.3.The system comes back up ...

Hello Forum,now that the air-conditioning season started and the power failures are upon us: How do people hook up their workstations to UPS? Can Solaris be told to hibernate/shut down by some signal sent to a USB port connected to the UPS?Cheers, Peter.

does any one know were i could find the drivers for the sunfire v20z network card. and does anyone know the chipset of the card?

I tried the lastest Installation Assistant and it supports rhel 4 UL. Is there a way to get the full version of RHEL 4 ES on a 20z.? Why does the install assistant only support RHEL 4 UL and not ES full version as well?-Sun Installation Assistant 1.1 for V20z/V40z1.1.3-v20z-x86_64 Web Update ...

Hi!How to configure automatic boot of V240 machine after power failure? After power gets resored, V240 remains in standby mode and one has to press button on front to power it up. It is not convinient because power failure can occur, for example, at night and the machine is not booted until the ...

am in need of a part number for the on-board fibre channel card.the customer called this morning (sat) and i need to get the part ordered asap.all documentation is on site and i am 3 hours away.please any help is greatly appreciated.customer says this is not a pci-x card.thanks to all in this ...

My Sun rep was able to get hold of the right people engineers at Sun to find out if I could add Serial Attached SCSI drives to an Ultra 40, use an LSI 8408E controller and STILL use the backplane. The answer is yes! The connectors are SAS/SATA compatible. All that has to be done is make sure ...

Dear All,I use the console cable with Ultra 10, its ok.With E450, the output is appear ok, but I can't type input.Please help.Thanks,Andry

I have an Ultra 60 that won't boot. It won't even start POST. I connected a PC to the serial port and confirmed that the terminal emulation works by connecting it to another Ultra 60 that works fine. The POST information displayed properly.Unfortunately, the Ultra 60 that doesn't work ...

Hi, can anyone tell me a source to download - if possible - the necessary drivers/tools to get that card running on a Blade 100 system under Solaris 10 ? somehow I've managed to misplace my original disks. Can I use the SunPCI III software or will it not recognize my hardware ...

I peeked inside a running V210 to see what the power supply PM was, and it kicked off a bunch of events, faulted the disks, and turned the service LED on:Jun 06 18:00:11 : 00070002: "Indicator HDD1.OK2RM is now ON"Jun 06 18:00:11 : 00070002: "Indicator HDD1.SERVICE is now ON"Jun 06 18:00:11 : ...

Sun just put V210 and V240 on their EOL list with last ship date of 06/06.How long will they support them or did they already drop support?Thanks

I have tested "try-buy" T2000 and I'm dispointed on the performance , I compared it with a dual cpu v240 as they are in about the same price range.I did the follwing tests:WebSphere Appserver v6 runing cloudscape and PlantsByWebSPhere app and Apache web server and WebSphere Plugin exactly the ...

Hi,considering purchasing a few new workstations and in particular Ultra 45's. Currently have a Solaris 8 environment and need to know whether I can run Solaris 8 on these boxes or not.Everywhere I've looked so far only mentions Solaris 10 1/06 which comes preinstalled, but I can I reinstall ...

Hi,I put several x2100's into production only to have them get stuck on their next reboot with the very first message (from the bios""Award Preboot Agent"...it never says "successfully loaded"I have an open case for Sun to research how to reset the BIOS with a jumper,but thought someone here ...

Hi,We have here some problems at a new netra 440. In the OpenBoot Diagnostics we receive the msg:WARNING: Device /pci@1e,600000/ide@d being marked with 'status' == failSC Alert: /pci@1e,600000/ide@d failWhen the OpenBoot Diagnostics are finished solaris starts but only with a few ...

o/s: Solaris 10 with patches up to date. LOM and system firmware at latest revisions.Trying to get a 12 bay, Model 711 Sun External SCSI enclosure working properly.Problem: When accessing any of the drives in the external enclosure seemingly random occurances of errors like this are being ...

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 ...

RAID controller for SunFire 280R server?Where could I find hardware compatibility list for SunFire 280R server? (Not any x86 HCL) I am looking for 3rd barty manufacture RAID controller for the server (I have AHA-2940UW and AHA-131 w/mem Adaptec cards, any body triad theses?). Any successes for ...

The T3 power supply has a green LED for AC power, but has a blinking amber LED for the PS LED. When we connect to the T3 it shows the battery status for this Power supply as unknown. We can't seem to figure out what the problem is. Any suggestions?Thanks,Glyn

Simple question, but I can't find a straight forward answer. How many on-board NICs are there in a Sunfire V880 server and what speed are they?Thanks

Sun Blade 2000 usage/observationsSo, my trusty SB 100 (which I moded with a SB 150 cpu, 2gb ram, fast ide drives) was no longer cutting it for what I needed to do (some tasks were cpu bound, some where io bound). I did not have the spare funds to buy a new Sun box, but it turns out that used SB ...

Hi All,Trying to view the images of a v240 server at: http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunFireV240/SunFireV240.htmlIt wants me to login, but you have to "Sunsolve Support Contract" to create a profile to login to view the pictures, I don't have a "Support Contract", but my company ...

Hi all!I recently inherited a Sun Ultra 2 Workstation with a SEAGATE ST34371W SUN4.2G7462 Hard Drive. I'm attempting to install Gentoo Linux on it, however, when I boot from CD, I get the following error message when Gentoo attempts to detect my drive:scsi0 : Sparc ESP366-HME Vendor: ...

hi allis there any tool beside "top" that can monitor CPU activity in mi-range servers as SUNFIRE 4800 ?Because i need time slot to know the peak time of the CPU and its activity in real timeP.S : i have Solaris 8 and Solaris 9RegardsTimely

Hi,I need to put some SunBlades 100/150 which are curently placed on tables in a SUN rack 900.does anybody know what is the exact order number from SUN for the necessary mounting kit?Many thanks,Radu

I just inherited a new SUN Netra 20 never before used. I have a standard SUN Keyboard, but there are only usb ports present. OpenBoot attempts to boot from the net, and I can't get to an OK prompt to boot from the CD. I have several Dell USB Keyboards which I have tried, but none work. I get a ...

Hello,Is anyone aware of any utility or CLI tool, for Linux, to view/manage the current configuration/settings of the RAID on an X4200 running Linux?I've looked around, but haven't been able to find anything... Might it be from Sun, or LSI Logic, or anywhere else. There's drivers available ...

Hi!I am trying to connect sun netra t1 server to the console on my laptop.I have connected it to the LOM port on the server,but nothing comes on the windows hyperterminal.I have followed the 9600 8-N-1 settings.But when I connect to the serial port on the netra server the hyperterminal screen ...

Hello all,I'm a new Solaris administrator, but I'm familiar with the basics. I've just joined an environment that doesn't have any monitoring software installed for keeping an eye on server uptime and such. We recently had an E250 and a Blade 1000 shut themselves off due to heat (AC failure ...

The Netra-210 machines seem to have the small hard drives with Serial Attached SCSI.The hard drive cloning machine uses the older style SCSI connectors and we have a number of hard drives that are Ultra-160 drives. I have not been lucky with my search and have not found a converter so that I ...

Just wondering if you can use normal PCI network cards on the Sun Enterprise 250 server?The card is a Realtek RTL8139 PCI fast ethernet adaptor 32-bitAlso, would this card work on the enterprise 450 servers?thankyou,jason

i did a search and did not turn up anything relevant. hoping you guys will help:i am looking to consolidate a series of e4x00 machines to newer hardware. i am tryingto compare the total power usage. the power input of a e4500 is 1400W, but what measurement is that (per ...

hi Alli have a second hand server 280R and when i tried to access RSC via serial connection on my laptop, i couldn't enter because i don't have the password of "admin" and i can not access the server remotely because i don't know if there's any O.S already installed.I tried to re-direct the ...

I have an Enterprise 250 server with 2 gig of ram that experienced a power failure due to a breaker blowing, (now I have a UPS connected to it) while it was doing a Solaris 10 install on the second cd. It got to the fourth cd and tried reinstalling it several times after which it would not ...

Hello,I'm working on U10 and since few weeks I can't use my workstation cause Xsun process consuming 100% of CPU. I installed 109154-21 patch, but it didn't change anything.Could you please help me?Thanks

Greetings,I have a 280R with two internal drives that are not mirrored. After the server has been online for a few hours, picld reports that both disks have failed. About 30 seconds later it reports that both disks are ok.I have taken the disks, cpu's and memory and put them in an identical ...

Hi, One of my E4500 servers logged an Uncorrectable Memory Error and rebooted itself. It stated that it's Syndrome 0x3 , indicates that this may not be a memory module problemWhat does Sydrome 0x3 mean and how can I be sure there is nothing wrong with any of the memory modules.Jun 19 13:41:15 ...

Please guide me upon what should be the frequency for rebooting of High End enterprise servers like 15K seriesWhether it should be weekly , monthly etc.

Hello,I have a v210 server which I need to connect to an external tape library with a 68GDM connector. However, the v210 connector is identified in the getting started documentation as a "mulitmode Ultra 160SCSI" . several questions. is the ultra 150scsi external connector on the v210 ...

Hello,I am running an X4100 which from what I can tell seems to have somekind of memory problem. The system intermittently reboots and somehow it's gotten progressively worse. I have checked the logs and have not found anthing that provides any clues as to what may be wrong. As consequence, i ...

Greetings,I have the following hardware:Sun Blade 1000 w 1 900 MHz UltraSPARC III cu, 2GB RAM, Elite3D-m3 Series 2 Accelerator (Part# 501-5574)A Sony built Sun 21" Monitor with the following Specs (Sorry, I can't find its model number)CRT Size 21in.CRT Size, Viewable 20in.CRT Type Apeture ...