Okay, coming from an HP environment where if we zoned and masked new disks to a host we did this to see them...ioscan -fninsf -eBingo, can see and talk to new disks, and use them, all online, no reboot required.How do I do this in SUN, solaris 10 mostly, although 8/9 steps are helpful too. ...

it shows all info from hyper terminal via 25 pin cable but i m not able to give commands from it

sun v480 in startup shows falet errorand not booting automaticallyit shows ERROR: (0201) Invalid "RO" Container Header TagFAULT: Motherboard/Centerplane FRU SEEPROMFATAL: Errors encountered in core system config probeConfiguration error mask 0000.0000.0000.0100Aborting auto-boot ...

sunfire v 880input & out put is set to ttyait shows total startup on serial a/b connector& stops without booting to os atok from hyperterminal it is not taking any commandso how can i go ahead and can give any command to server

Hello,The NetVault / Backbone Software Version 7.4 cannot see the C2 Autoloader . . . It just says No Library Found.Can anyone help with this? Thank you,

i have t3 storage i want to check whether it has raid controller or notit is asking for login name and passwordwhich i dont have so how can i proceed

Hi All,I am new to solaris, i have a Sun Fire V280R when i logged into the system and type "uname - a" the output iam getting isSunOS mysystem 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000this displays the server as Sunblade-1000, why is that so? is it becoz of the patch level or ...

I have Cobalt QUBE 3 and I update manually from sun.cobalt website. Then I update patch "Qube3 EOL Update 4.0.1" it's process finish and reboot the system.After Rebooting, I can't open Cobalt console via Web browser ( http://10.100.200.221:444/login.php) and shown the msg.Fatal error: Call to ...

I have a Sun Blade 100. I want to add faster/larger capacity disks. After a little research and a man page (man uata), I determined sil680(a) based controller cards will work. The HCL has not been much help.Which cards has anyone got to work?

My company purchased a V-215 server and lo and behold we can't do anything with it because we didn't get a DB-9 adapter with it. It's not listed in the kit contents either. So when you purchase a entry level server from Sun, it really means that you already need Sun specific adapters from ...

For some reason OS X's Java will not run the remote KVM. It works fine on Windows, Linux and about any other platform I have tried, but I'm running 10.4.8 on a PPC (have tried several workstations) and when I first log in through the web interface (Safari, have tried Opera and Firefox too), I ...

While I was reading documents (user guide and software installation stuff) about Sun Ultra 40 Workstation, I find TPM mentioned in those docs.Is TPM (Trusted Platform Module) present in Sun Ultra 40 Workstation?Even 'Tools & Support' CD comes with specific driver for it, but I don't know ...

I have an Enterprise 250 server that refuses to boot. It stopped responding and when I got to the console, it looked like it had attempted to reboot and was unable to. Since then, I've tried getting it to boot both from the disks and from a CD and run into the same problem. Auto-Boot is turned ...

Hello every body,I am beginner in administration of SUN solaris and SUN hardware. I have question on how to detect if HDD on SUN box is corrupted. We are using SUN Fire V440 with Solaris 8.0.Thanks Peter

Can anyone help me avoiding Sun Cabinet FrameManager service LED on Sun Fire 4900 Rack.

Hi,I've just recently installed an HP 9600 series SCSI CD-Writer into an Ultra 30 system.Question: Where do I hook up the sound output of the CD-Writer onto the motherboard? Or better yet, is there documentation showing me where to connect the soud cable from the CD-writer to the ...

What should I do?What should the jumpers on the CD-Writer be set at?Thank you,JamesMessage was edited by: jfalknor

Does anybody know what the maximum size harddrive is for an Ultra 30.I've been able to put a 40+ gig harddrive into an Ultra 5, but the Uktra 30 does not seem to accept a 38+ gig harddrive. It gives a trap error that I can't remember off hand.Thank you,James

Hi,For some time, I have been trying to get a .htaccess file up and running on a Cobalt RaQ 550. The .htaccess file contains a load of commands for mod_rewrite. However, the server keeps on returning error 500 (Internal Server Error). Is there something that I should do differently from the ...

Hi,I have Sunblade 150. The HDD of system is totally crashed. I want to boot it from CD ROM to do the installation of Solaris 8. But i am not finding the option to boot it from CD ROM. When ever I start the system it tries to boot from network. The HDD of system is blank and unpartioned. How do ...

We need to get a SCSI CDROM drive for this server. Hoping someone can tell me if any such drive would be ok or if we have to target specific models. TIA,Jim

Hi,I have a Sun Ray 1 purchased second hand. I am currently in the process of installing the server software onto my CentOS linux distro. Just to see what happened if i turned the Sun Ray on without the server yet running, it got to the egg timer screen and never gets past there however long ...

How can i use a swiss german keymap on a blade 100 with a non-sun keyboard?

Hi,I have an E3500 server.The variables "output-device" and "input-device" of the Open Boot PROM was incorrectly changed to "ttya". The correctly values are "console" and "keyboard".Now I can磘 use the keybord and monitor to access the server and I can磘 connect via telnet or other way to the ...

Hello all, I recently got a Sun Blade 100 from a place that was giving away some. The drive was wiped, and the cdrom drive was bad. I replaced it with one lying around and when i try to do a "boot cdrom - nowin" with burned solaris 10 media the top of the screen gets garbled and I get a bad ...

There are many Sun Systems that only have two drive bays, so expanding internally really isn't an option. However, if you are willing to think outside the box, you have more options. I found a SAS/SATA card by LSI that supports Solaris SPARC. It has internal and external connectors. It is not ...

Hello -I've just finished upgrading my Ultra 2 from two 300mhz processorsto two 400mhz processors. PROM recognises new processorsbut memory initialization (2GB) does not commence,cannot access 'ok' prompt,. and boot stalls indefinitely. Motherboard ID is high enough for upgrade as per ...

Hi,I am Yousuf Syed and I am Sun Solaris certified System Administrator (SA1/SA2). Actually I required Sun Solairs 10 System Admin Material.Regards,Yousuf Syed

Hi All,I'm trying to work out why when I type ok>boot the server keeps booting off the network. It's almost as it does not find any disks and then since diag-device is set to net it tries that instead. The same happens even if I do an init 6 or reboot from solaris?the output from eeprom ...

HI ALL !I have problems booting up my Sun Fire E2900, cause IB6/P0/B1 has been flagged as disabled. Dyring bootinig lom print this message:Mon Jan 08 04:16:52 MY-lomi lom: [ID 177250 local0.warning] IO bus 1 on IO {/N0/IB6/P0} is CHS disabled.When system entering in OBPgiv error like:WARNING: ...

Hi, I've succesfully installed Ubuntu server for SPARC on my Blade 2000 with a xvr-500 graphics card but I still haven't been able to configure Xorg. The sunffb driver does not respond ("device not found" error) and I haven't found any useful information for this video card.Has anyone had ...

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? ...

As the subject line says, I'm working with an x4200. The server has 4x 2GB RAM modules, for a total of 8192 MB of physical RAM. However, the BIOS only recognizes 7.5 GB, and there is no indication of what is happening with the other 0.5 GB of RAM. Has anyone seen this benavior?The OS sees 7680 ...

I has error during boot process:NOTICE: CPU 1 has 1024/2048 MB of memory disabledWhat it's mean? Memory microchip broken?

Hello all,During post when it recognises the CPU speed and cache settings it puts an astrix by one of the CPU`s.why does it do this as it pass all internal diagnosticsa and does not appear to be faulty ?Any suggestions welcome.

Hi All, This maybe a stupid question but i still would like to know the answer.We have a E450 with dual SPARC 302mhz CPUs, can this server run 64-bit software? We are trying to upgrade to Oracle 10g but it only supports 64-bit. Thanks for any input.

Hi,I have checked Sunsolve and it is mentioned that the minimum requirement would for Solaris 8 would be HW 07/03 (requires mandatory patch 109885-15).My existing server runs on Solaris 8 HW 5/03.Do I need to upgrade to HW 07/03 to support the 1.33Ghz CPU?What are the steps that need to be ...

Hi I recently got my Ultra-40 workstation. Now, I have a PS/2 based microsoft keyboard and mouse that I got very much used to . So, I would like to conitnue using the same keyboard & mouse with my Ultra-40 workstation instead of using the Sun's keyboard and mouse. now, how do I do this ? ...

I have a Sunblade 2000 and I installed 8 sticks of 1gb DIMMS (X7052A) into it and it some strange things happened...On reboot, the memory counted ok 8192gb, but the OBP reported ECC corections oddly related to paths pointing to firewire, the FC-AL drivees and the network, and reported no disks ...

I installed a Linux distro on a solaris box, now I want to go back to solaris (the I/O benchmarks on linux were very disappointing, but I guess something to be expected after reading around).Hardware: Sunfire v240Installing OS: Solaris 10Interface: ALOM/consoleI end up getting through the ...

Need help interpreting the following red state exception:Error enable reg: 0000.0001.00f0.001fCPU: 0000.0000.0000.0001TL=0000.0000.0000.0005 TT=0000.0000.0000.0064TPC=0000.0000.f000.4c80 TnPC=0000.0000.f000.4c84 TSTATE=0000.0044.8004.1406TL=0000.0000.0000.0004 ...

I experience problem with E250 recently. At 1st, I cannot telnet to the server, and when i try to login to the server locally, it doesn't recognize my username and password.I ve to force shutdown d server and do a system reboot.We already upgrade the memory to the max i.e. 2G. And also ...

Hi all,I'm trying to reset the SP password to the default because the current admins forgot the password, so what I'm trying to do is to power up the machine and go to the bios to reset the SP password for BMC.Right now, I'm facing a problem is that the video is not output to my LCD at all, ...

Small overview what's running on the system controllers:Solaris 8 02/04 Solaris Security Toolkit 4.1.1SMS Version: 1.4.1Patches:108434-17108528-24108964-10110826-09110836-05110837-04111335-18115829-01115831-01SMS 1.4.1 ...

Does Solaris 10 support running on the old E450 and E5500 SPARC servers?

Hello Everyone,I have an identical problem with 2 identical machines. They both are SunFire-280R running solaris 8 (exact version below). I can't seem to get the rsc cards on them configured. I am using the newest software that supports them (as far as i know) from the package ...

Hello, I have inherited a SunFire v240 server with Solaris 9 running on it. I'm trying to install Solaris 10 on this machine via terminal connection. However, I have been unsuccessfully at my attempts. I have booted the machine into single user mode and tried changing the root password but ...

I've got a SUN E3500 that's been running perfectly for the past year. However, We lost power and my UPS didn't last long enough and the machine shut down "uncleanly". When I rebooted, it said "invalid WWN number 0 0", or something to that effect. After doing some reading, does that mean the ...

Hello,I am running redhat kernel 2.6.9-34.ELsmp. I just installed the Sun 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adpater and the driver to go with it. I ran the following commands per the installation instructions:# depmod - returned prompt with no errors# modprobe ixge - returned prompt with no errors# lsmod - ...

We have a 420R with two CPUs running Solaris 2.6. One of the CPUs is flaky and may fail.Our management have decided that the quote we have for replacing the faulty CPU is too expensive and so we will just keep running as is, and if the CPU fails we will just remove it and run the box on one ...