Hi, I would like to change the logical device names for an external StorEdge. Booting into single user mode from a CD and deleting everything in /dev/dsk/ and /dev/rdsk/ as well as the path_to_inst file and then reconfigure booting doesn't work. Solaris remembers which physical device name was ...

HI all,Here we have Sun Enterprise 250, but not able to get the Display though we have PCI Frame Buffer Card. & This Card is connected to Cybex xp4040 & using the monitor cable between sun monitor & VGA port of Cybex xp4040, we are not getting any display.So Can anyone help us ...

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 All,I've been looking around and am having trouble finding a definitive answer to the question of what is the largest hardrive that a 420R can accept. We'd be most interested in hearing from real life experiences. What is the largest size drive people have been actually able to use in a ...

I actually created this problem myself. I have two v440s and one has a quad ethernet card and one doesn't . I swapped the disks and neither system came back up. I swapped the disks back and one system came back up. When I run raidctl I get:# raidctlRAIDRAIDRAIDDiskVolume Status ...

G'day,I have an E250, it has four HDDs, a tape drive and CDROM.I want to install Solaris 10 on it, when it starts up i press Stop A and type in boot cdrom.Then i get about 10 of these errors:Fatal SCSI Errorat script address 48 Unexpected disconnectThen after that it says:Cannot read disk ...

Hello All,I need some advise about how to install a soundcard into a E450.The partnumber of the soundcard is 501-2592 and it should work in an E450. And I can buy the card for a reasonable price.Is it difficult to install such a sound card into the system? It is PCI so just put it in a free PCI ...

Our Sun Blade workstations have been experiencing network interruptions, resulting in unavailable internet service except intranet. PCs on the same network appear ok somehow. The interrupt lasts a few minutes occasionally. When it occurs, the on-campus workstation also becomes unaccessible from ...

Hello,I have setup a netdump server and client which seem to communicate fine as it relates to initial process startup, but when the x4100 server crashes, it does not created crash dump file. Question,1. does the x4100 server nic suported with netdump? 2. The Sun DIag disk does not seem to work ...

Hi friends, We r using E-3000 sun sparch server from last few days this server ok prompt not comes. I m also shutdown server and then start but same thing happens. I m also check the server logs but noting any found related this problem. We r using dump terminal insted of sun monitor from last ...

I am moving the Sun E250 into a rack and I wanted to use the KVM the other systems are using. Will this definitely work, not work or does it depend on the KVM?

I have to replace a scsi disk which is a dedicated offline mirror on a sunfire v240, do I have to power off the box before doing this? Or can scsi disks be replaced on the v240 (offline mirrors of course) while the system is up & running?

HiMy X2100 box stops responding to the USB keyboard. Yes, i did get another keyboard just to make sure this is not a keyboard problem. Also the screen redraw was so slow, 2-3 second to refresh after changed value, like on the g'old 8086. I could see the characters drawn one by one (like a deja ...

I am trying to configure SC but when i use the serial cable supplied by sun it shows me nothing when using hyperterm or terraterm. I have used the 8N1 as told but the only thing that i can see is when i send a break i get the message "SC alert: SC request to send break to host"anyone have any ...

One convenient way of cloning a machine (with hot-pluggable disks) is to use the dd command - e.g.# dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 of=/dev/dskc0t1d0s2 bs=512kThis certainly works when the machines are identical. I am replacing a SunFire V240 with a V210. I know the machines are very, very similar - ...

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. ...

Hello Everyone,I am trying to connect Netra T1 105 server to my laptop and use hyperterminal at 9600 8-N-1 settings.I have used Sun's 530-2889-03 connector attached to my laptop DB25 db port and RJ45 connected to Netra's serial link port.I am not able to see any login prompt. I need to ...

Is it possible to upgrade my SunFire 280R w/ 1x 750 MHZ cpu ( ultraSparc lll ) to 1.2 GHZ ?Will the board support it ?

Hello all,I'm thinking uf buying a used X4100 off eBay for personal use at my home. I know the X4100 has a 3 year warranty on it from SUN. My question is that assuming the machine has been in service for, let's say 1 year, does that mean that the remaining 2 years are available to me?I don't ...

Got a problem with my SUN Fire 280R system. The problem is that it wont boot because of a "Corrected ECC error" message.I've searched alot on this but cant find anything useful. I heard it may be a bug in OpenBoot that causes this and I even found a patch for this but since I cant boot solaris ...

I have document 802-3233-27 which tells me how to update the Firmware on my newly acquired Ultra-2 Enterprise. I need to get from OBP 3.7 to 3.11.2 or later to run Solaris 10 on the machine.However, the problem is this refers to a bootable CD; which I can't find anywhere, and the machine has ...

Hi, I've bought an X2100 server with optional service processor. Shipped with the package comes a bootable CD with some DOS-tools to flash the BIOS and configure the service processor (IP/netmask/gateway, usernames/passwords, etc). However this server comes with no CD/DVD-drive by default, so ...

Hi!I bought a used Blade 1000: case, processor, disks separately.At boot the machine seems to access the disks, but then the video doesn't show up.I tried1)replacing the graphics card, but nothing happens2)connecting the ethernet, but how could use DHCP I wonder.So, I guess the only thing to ...

Hi all,I searched and searched and of course searched again in google and i didn't find any answer for my problem. The problem is what that means when i using weblogic server?<Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000386> <Cannot get the server version, the request was from an ...

Is there an upper limit that Solaris 5 will see on a hard drive? My question comes from the fact that I installed a new unformatted 20gb seagate drive in an ultra 5 running solaris 5. When I enter format, the output shows only 8gb (7.7 something minus the buffer). Is there a patch I can install ...

I have a Sun W2100z workstation, and I'm currently running Solaris 10 01/06 on it, but even when I had Red Hat Linux 4 AS on it, it seemed that the front two USB ports didn't work, while the two ports on the back of the system work fine. I first experienced problems when I was trying to use a ...

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 installed a new CPU board in a v480 but the system does not recognize it. Both CPU boards are 900mHz and I have upgraded the firmware to 4.17.1. The system tries to boot but after the only indications I get are a solid maintenance light and a flashing locator light. After waiting for ...

We have a SunFire V440 server in our shop that has gone through two power supplies in a year. The last was replaced within the last month. Now the amber light is on again for the same power supply (only seems to affect this server and power supply PS1). I have verified that all power cables are ...

I am really new to the solaris. The sun blade 100 workstation was working yesterday. But when i started it today, i got exec (/sbin /init ) failed with errno 13. can't start init. program terminated. It may because I didn't turn it off properly. What should I do to fix it? Need to finish the ...

Hi,I have a SunFire V250 and it shipped with 2GB RAM. I have purchased and addition 2GB RAM and am going to install it.I have 2 processors in this machine.There are two RAM banks 0 & 1.Bank 0 has slots 0, 1, 2 & 3Bank 1 has slots 4, 5, 6 & 7I noticed when I opened the box, the ...

In short, is anyone able to get DVD Playback to work smoothly in full screen (and high resolution) using one of these cards?More detail: I have a SB 2000, with 2gb ram, plenty of disk and swap. I also have to Expert3D-Lite cards (each 48mb ram, I think) set up with Xinerama (desktop acrooss ...

Hi,i had created a folder with root login. and imported 10gb data.By default the permissions are owner: root rwxgroup:other r-xother r-xNow when i try to change the permsisson of the group to write, i am getting this error:The permissions for the specified folder cannot be changed.The specified ...

Looking for information for running multiple frame buffersSB2500XVR-1200XVR-600Solaris 9I'm new to setting up graphics in Solaris, so if someone can walk me through the setup.XVR-1200 in PCI slot 6, XVR-600 in PCI slot 4. I've "enabled doublewide" in fbconfig.fbconfig -list shows ...

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).The keyboard used to work but the Ultra 5 went to storage for a while and the keyboard does not work anymore. The mouse works fine.Is this a hardware issue or a ...

Hello AllI have got a Ultra 450. When booting into Solaris I get some error message.warning: pci@1f,2000/scsi@1SCSI bus DATA IN phase parity errorwarning: pci@1f,2000/scsi@1Target 1 reducing sync. transfer ratewarning: pci@1f,2000/scsi@1SCSI bus DATA IN phase parity errorwarning: ...

I've got a Sun V20z that i'd like to get going, but have a few questions. I've only got 1 memory VRM for the server, and 2 CPU VRM's. Can I run a single CPU until I find another VRM for the board? I was looking at going with an Opteron 248. Also, I've got about sixteen 1GB PC2100 sticks of ...

How do I determine via some software means the number of physical, socketed T1 CPUs present in a system such as the T1000? Our application needs this count for licensing purposes. All our existing methods result in each CPU core being counted.Is there any data in OBP that can be used?Is there ...

Hi everybody,I have buyed a Sun Ultra 5 used with Solaris 8 pre-installed.When I turn-on power the system starts but I havent openboot prompt. I want install Solaris 10. How I can start openboot's prompt and run the command "boot cdrom"?

Does anyone know which V480 Flash PROM update should be installed? The Sun system hanbook web page for the V480 is showing three updates. Do all in order or just install the latest one?

I have an e450 I acquired this winter from NASA in Cleveland Ohio....my intention is to sell it....it powers up fine, but the message on the screen says bad magic number, with images of blck diamonds on the screen, this is my first sun machine, so I'm not that familiar with the OS ...

Hi,This sounds elementary but I can't figure it out and the brain isn't functioning well at 1:20am.I've got a v120 that did not have a console on it, so I connected a cable from a v880's serial to the serial A/LOM port on the v120.I'm getting text displayed when I tip to it (tip -9600 ...

Hi,I have an old 20 lying around in my spare room and im thinking off selling it.Here is the spec...How much should I expect to get for this?Quad Ross HyperSPARC (4x75Mhz)256MB RAM.2X10GB SCSI's (One is a Seagate Cheetah, the other an IBM).Its in very good condition ...

Is it possible to get a converter?

We have a couple of V210s in production, on one we lose telnet about once every two weeks and have to do a "scadm resetsc". Telnet does not respond, but the IP address is pingable. The other acts strangely, it sometimes does not echo the username on login, drops packets, etc;Please login: ...

Dear sir, I have got 20 nos of Sun Ultra 20 Workstations, with AMD opteron 64 bit processors.i have installed Windows XP 64 bit o/s where in all the systems are facing the identical problems. it is that the system are working very slow. The users are using Autocad like Designing Software and ...

Hi all,I wonder if anyone can help me. I believe there is a bug report for this issue, but I don't seem to be able to access it.The problem I have is that when I build or control a x4100/4200 via the Java Console on the ILOM, the backslash doesn't if I control Windows via the console. The ...

Hi all, We're in the process of setting up a single workstation system and we need to back this up weekly. Do Sun still produce tape/DVD-RW drives or do we have to go to third parties to get them? If we have to go elsewhere, what makes should we be looking at?The system is an old Blade 100 ...

HI All ,We planning to migrate and consolidate our servers to a E25k .Wondering by using capacity on demand option , if we can setup a domain with one uniboard fully activated with four CPU and another CPU board with only 2 CPU and its corresponding memory turn on which give you a total of six ...

Hi ,I'm wondering if we can have board failover on E9600 series Thanks