Hickups of w2100z with SUSE 10.1 (freezes for an instance every 3 seconds)

1659 byte By Sakratifa at 2007-11-26 20:13:48
WorkstationSUN w2100z2 AMD64 Opteron4G RAM NVIDIA FX3000SCSI 73GB Operating System--SUSE 10.1 - Remastered x86_64(uname -a output below)Linux sun 2.6.16.21-0.25-smp #1 SMP Tue Sep 19 07:26:15 UTC 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/LinuxProblem -Every 3 seconds LINUX freezes for an instance - Appears ...

new v240, can't install or upgrade Sol 10

713 byte By FredB_GoAheada at 2007-11-26 20:17:49
I've got two new SunFire v240 servers. They came running solari 10 03/05. OBP 4.18.10. I need to upgrade to at least update 2. The installer aborts every time.I've tried installing via "boot net" or "boot cdrom" without sucess, both update 2 and update 3. After the initial round of questions ...

XVR-500

421 byte By jb.javalaba at 2007-11-26 20:18:13
After downloading Sun XVR-500 Graphics Accelerator Driver with Sun Download Manager, it is impossible to extract the file. The download manager shows a file conflict error. Trying to extract the zip-file with winzip, it shows a problem with extracting the install script. There is a problem ...

My Netra T1 is still a black box

816 byte By recupero_2a at 2007-11-26 20:19:21
Hello again community!I havent still been able to get a response from my Netra T1.I have setup a connectionLOM--straight cable--converter--nullmodem--minicomwhere converter is the right to left of the following:DB9 PinRJ45 Pin1 (DCD)no connect2 (RX) 3 (TX)3 (TX) 6 (RX)4 (DTR)7 (DSR)5 (GND)4 and ...

x2100 won't reboot after power reset

371 byte By smcbutlera at 2007-11-26 20:20:48
hi, i have an x2100 server in a datacenter and for some reason when i reset the power on it will not reboot. i need to hit the reset button on the front of the machine, incovenient since i'm not local to the machine.i had a look at the startup screen but didn't see anything in the bios for ...

Windows server 2003 compatibility

253 byte By babu2001a at 2007-11-26 20:29:15
Hi. Very simple question. I would like to know if a Sun W2100z Workstation can be used as a Windows server 2003 (R2 release). Do I need some special driver? I know it can run Windows XP Pro but I don't want to take any chance. Thanks in advance.

SCSI Card on E3500

76 byte By nankeen80a at 2007-11-26 20:32:45
Hi all,How do i find out the model of the scsi card for E3500?

CVS 1.11.21 and PVCS 6.8.10 compatible with solaris 5.10 Sparc ?

109 byte By nitinarchera at 2007-11-26 20:40:50
Hi,Are CVS 1.11.21 and PVCS 6.8.10 compatible with solaris 5.10 Sparc Unix server.Thanks

Blade 2000 post beeps

386 byte By paul1951a at 2007-11-26 20:41:25
Hi,Have a 2000 that was powered off. Turning it back on the emblem and CD light come on, nothing on the keyboard. After the HD spins up it beeps 3 times and goes dead. There is no OBP video on the display.Did a google and found nothing on this. Looked in the service manual and found nothing on ...

MB.T_ENC problem

586 byte By dragunua at 2007-11-26 20:46:55
hello,my Sunfire V240 is having the following problem. It does not seem to heat up but, sometimes it powers itself off with a shutdown due toSC Alert: TEMP_SENSOR @ MB.T_ENC has exceeded high hard shutdown threshold.now, when i run showenvironment on the sc> prompt, the CPU's seem to be in ...

No Video from Ultra 10 using a 13W3 Headshell

310 byte By kermitsma at 2007-11-26 20:49:00
Hello All,I have a Ultra workstation using a SUN 13W3 MONITOR MALE TO HD 15 FEMALE VGA/SVGA ADAPTER. I replaced a Sun monitor and put a PC monitor in its place. I know the PC monitor is working and the Ultra10 is putting out video. Is there some other configuration I am missing for this to ...

Performance analysis

1696 byte By PierreHa at 2007-11-26 20:55:08
Hello,We are having problem of performance on our server (Solaris 8). I wish you guys could help me to analyse the result of various users commands to find out why and how to make our solaris feel better...Thanks in advanced to all the people that will read and/or help me in this task.1st, the ...

x2100 freeze

1042 byte By rakeshva at 2007-11-26 21:00:14
We have an x2100 that has started freezing very frequently (stays up for a couple of hours or so). I tried pulling out a couple of memory sticks to see if that made any difference. That made no difference. There are a few errors in /var/adm/messages regarding disk read errors, but metastat and ...

Netra 1400 and burned media

219 byte By lukasz9000a at 2007-11-26 21:05:35
I seem to have problems using burned CDs and DVD-R in the DVD-ROM's that come with Netra 1400.Anyone know if those drives can read recordable media?I couldn't find anything on sun.comThanks

power supply rating for drive enclosure?

236 byte By narfTa at 2007-11-26 21:05:55
I have a Sun UltraSCSI drive enclosure, P/N 599-2326-01I would like to know the maximum output amperage ratings for its +5 and +12 volt power supply. I cannot find this information anywhere. Can you help me? Thanks!

Question on DB25->RJ45 serial conversions (Blade 1000<->V480)

969 byte By pantsaria at 2007-11-26 21:13:22
Hello everyone!BTW, this is my first post on the Servers forum :-)I recently bought a Sun Fire V480 server, which didn't come with the RJ45->DB25 serial adapter + cable. The V480 manuals say that the RJ45 uses all 8 wires for the communication, so I ordered an adapter from Blackbox (part # ...

Blade 100's/150's

748 byte By jmcdonagha at 2007-11-26 21:21:12
I recently purchased a lot of 30 blade 100's and 150's in an auction. I really want to set up a cluster with these machines, but I am having trouble getting them to boot. The condition of these systems is unknown at this point because they came without RAM. Let me get to what is ...

Class Project

205 byte By Bessemera at 2007-11-26 21:31:12
I need to know which Sun server would be best to support 5000 users, locally. These are the only requirements imposed by the instructor.Generally, which server would be suitable?--Josh

V440 & Linux

221 byte By UCLALaba at 2007-11-26 21:38:40
Does the V440 run/ support Linux?If so, which versions of linux are compatible? Just redhat and suse or do others work as well?Any information and details would be greatly appreciated.thank you

USB audio on Solaris fails with: couldn't set record gain

699 byte By askjervolda at 2007-11-26 21:42:16
Trying to get the Griffin iMIC usb audio to work on Solaris8. This works fine with Solaris 10 but no option at the moment.When attaching device in Solaris8 the following errors occur (dmesg output):WARNING: usb_ac0:am_attach() couldn't set record gainusba: [ID 593373 kern.info] ...

Sun Fire X2100 Blinking Status LED...

377 byte By muzscmana at 2007-11-26 21:45:49
We have 3 new Sun Fire X2100 servers at my current job. Just recently the status LED (orange) started blinking. The logs show fine and running a prtdiag shows everything up and running fine. Is there a way to turn off the blinking LED? I have gone over every piece of information I can find and ...

X4200M2 Java Redirection doesn't work

846 byte By aivey06a at 2007-11-26 21:48:53
We recently received 4 servers. 1 server came with ILOM 1.0.1 (I think) and it was the first I set up. The Java redirection worked great! Ever since I upgraded to ILOM 1.1.1 the Java redirection has not worked. On shipping ILOM, when I chose 8 or 16 bit color, Safari had me download a jnlp file ...

T2000 problems

363 byte By ledzepa at 2007-11-26 21:49:07
Hi AllI have a T2000 on which 2 zones are created. Application processes are run in the zones, but they seem to run out of swap space pretty easily. I never had such a situation in other sun hardware. The Ram is 8 GB and I have 20 GB of Swap. Any ideas. Any such problems known earlier or ...

Documentation for Netra T12 Hardware

202 byte By Sunil_Unisysa at 2007-11-26 21:49:11
Can someone please advise me where I can get the documentation for Netra T12? I need to reconfigure the ssc (rsc) port on this server.The output from "uname -i" command is - SUNW,Netra-T12

E420R OS options

188 byte By shoptalka at 2007-11-26 21:49:26
New to SUN hardware so this may sound stupid but is there a limitation with installing OS options on E420R; Solaris 10, Fedora, MS, etc. ?Thanks,Shoptalk

T2000 network throughput is slow

866 byte By mhoutsa at 2007-11-26 21:57:35
I am building a three-tiered web application with apache servers front-ending Tomcat on a T2000 that connects to a datastore on another host.Evaluating the throughput of the Tomcat layer on the T2000 compared to a 2-cpu Opteron and a 4-cpu v440 the T2000 is slow. Average throughput is ...

Sun Blade 2000 and SATA drives.

1384 byte By s-wilsona at 2007-11-26 22:00:01
My Sun Blade 2000 just came in on Thursday. The firmware needed to be updated. Otherwise, it seems to be working just fine. It has dual US-III 900s, 4 GB RAM, and dual 36 GB FC-AL drives. I installed a LSI 3442X-R SAS/SATA HBA in the 3.3v 66 mhz slot and a Intel Pro 1000 (e1000g) network ...

Messed up OB alias on Ultra 5 - no video

381 byte By machead5a at 2007-11-26 22:02:29
Hi allI was trying to add a Raptor card to run my Sony monitor at a higher resolution than the ATI and wiped the devalias for the ATI and now neither card works. I tried a (blind) reset by powering off / on Stop-A / reset and plugging back into the ATI for a reboot but alas, no video output.Has ...

"02FA Machine Check Error on AP" Sun Java Workstation W2100z

309 byte By Johan2007a at 2007-11-26 22:19:03
I have a Sun Java Workstation W2100z, at the preboot displays this messages:"02FA Machine Check Error on AP"F1 for continue or F2 to run setup, after press F1, the system is Up baut 10 minutes later it reboot. I have Windows Server 2003 32 bits.Any comments?Thanks a ...

V880z hard drive capacity

176 byte By paul1951a at 2007-11-26 22:20:38
Hi,Would like to know if a V880z will work with 146gb drives. The docs say 73gb but I would like to know if anyone has had success using larger drives.Paul

Sun Blade 8420s and Ubuntu Linux

613 byte By chipasuna at 2007-11-26 22:30:55
Anyone gotten this combination to work yet? We've been able to successfully complete the installation process, but Ubuntu 6.10 and 6.06 both are unable to mount the hard disks during the boot process after the install has completed. We've upgraded the blade's firmware, changed the BIOS ...

V240 Serial Port (10101)

197 byte By 3eba at 2007-11-26 22:33:03
I have a system running on my V240 which sends output via the serial port. I need to be able to see that output, what sort of connecor can i use to access the serial port and see the output?

EEPROM Checksum failure booting Ultra40 M2

270 byte By ssza at 2007-11-26 22:35:52
Just received a new Ultra 40 M2 workstation and every timeI boot, it gives the following message:Error: 028D: FRU@EEPROM MB Checksum FailedI can't find any reference to this here or at the Phoenix BIOS website.Any help is appreciated.

Blade 2500 and Quadro Fx 3500

85 byte By Malariea at 2007-11-26 22:43:03
I was just wondering if this videocard will work on a blade 2500.thanks

How can i find my videocard model in solaris 10

649 byte By Malariea at 2007-11-26 22:43:26
Hello, I am completely new with Solaris. In fact i never touched a sun machine.I have a co-worker who is using a Blade 2500 workstation. The Problem is that my co-worker is in London UK atm and I am in Montreal. We need to buy the exact same machine he is working on for our montreal office. I ...

Sun Server FJ1A - How To Connect A Monitor ?

572 byte By mikenuuna at 2007-11-26 22:50:13
Since today i am the owner of a Sun Server FJ1AI don't know the exact specs yet but there are two 10.000 rpm 18.2gb harddisk,a 512mb RAM module. I dont know anything about the cpu yet.I can turn it on, everything works,I currently don't have much knowledge about rackservers, but everything ...

22320-SR SCSI RAID with windows XP

610 byte By _lsi_a at 2007-11-26 22:57:15
I installed a 22320-SR scsi raid card from a Sun server on my workstation.I have a AMD XP processor on a MSI board with Windows XP.I have added two 15k HDD to make a raid. Now the problem,I am able to install XP on one of the drives but not in RAID.After reading the manual, it says to select ...

Servers - General Discussion - Lomlite Trouble on Netra T1 AC200

1080 byte By Maeltora at 2007-11-26 23:08:59
Hi,I just recently got ahold of a used Netra T1 and its not working correctly from what i can tell. I had this box awhile ago and apparently setup a Lomlite user on it, but I must not have given myself the right permissionsWhen i get into the lomlite console i get the following ...

Servers - General Discussion - Suitable Processor for Oracle 10g

369 byte By grkrajesha at 2007-11-26 23:10:08
Hi All ,Currently, Our Oracle 10g with RAC (Real Application Cluster) is running in the Server Sun Fire V240 (SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi) with 4GB of RAM.We have an idea to upgrade the processor. Please give me your suggestion, which processor is best for Oracle 10G with RAC.I am awaiting for your ...

Servers - General Discussion - Ultra AXi motherboard

80 byte By Roman.Mena at 2007-11-26 23:12:32
What type is SPARCengine Ultra AXi a server motherboard or a workstation?

Workstations - General Discussion - Blade 1500 connect to vt100 - Which cable?

397 byte By asnaeda at 2007-11-26 23:13:59
Hi,Having problems getting a vt100 compatible monitor to communicatewith a blade 1500. Monitor is 25 way D type, blade is 9 way D type.I've tried various work arounds using UTP with D type adaptors but with no luck. I understand there is a lead specifically for this setup that should work. ...

Workstations - General Discussion - Problems adding SATA drive on w1100z with WinXP

2195 byte By OlafCortena at 2007-11-26 23:19:13
Hi,I'm trying to connect a SATA drive to my SUN w1100z but WinXP Pro SP2 32bit will not recognize it.I allready have two 80Gb IDE Disks installed and wanted to add another SATA disk.I bought a Samsung HD321KJ 320Gb SATA II disk and a SATA data cable. Connected it to the board and powersupply. ...

Other Sun Hardware - CP1400/CP1500 Programmer Reference Guide for Solaris 806-0180-xx

139 byte By bigjohnsona at 2007-11-26 23:21:07
Hello,I am searching it but I did not found on google and sunsolve documentatio.Some idea?Thanks.Alberto

Workstations - General Discussion - Sun Blade 2500

265 byte By PAKLMSa at 2007-11-26 23:24:41
Hi,Anyone knows about !Q.1 How to run Bios in sun blade 2500 for checking of parts inside cpu?Q.2 Error : boot device: disk file adn args ?Q.3 Error : The file just loaded does not appear to be executable?Waiting for reply.

Workstations - General Discussion - Sun Blade 1000 and FibreChannel Disks

368 byte By oweinmanna at 2007-11-26 23:28:54
Dear All,one of our sun Blade 1000 workstations doesn't boot. I'm not really used to sun machines. so maybe you can give me some help.when i do scsi-probe-all it doesn't show me any disks at all. Just a DVD Drive and i guess the controllers.Is there any way to verify that the disks are ...

X2100 SATA Disk replacements

363 byte By Village_Idiota at 2007-11-26 23:37:05
I've just purchased a used X2100 w/ 2x80GB SATA drives (Seagate Barracuda 7200.7). The online docs say that there's a 250GB SATA drive available (also Seagate). Seagate makes 3.5" SATA Barracuda ES disks that go up to 750GB now.Question: Can I buy any size SATA drive with the same physical ...

Sun Fire e2900

499 byte By weili620a at 2007-11-26 23:38:28
we got a couple of brand new sun fire e2900. After unpacking, I am not able to boot from network to jumpstart. Boot from local disk also failed with probe-scsi-all error fast data access mmu miss. try to boot from the dvd shipped, got error failed to expand cpu/$cpu.Three out of four new ...

usb2serial

345 byte By przemolba at 2007-11-26 23:49:11
Hello,I have laptop which doesn't have serial port but from time to time I have to connect to our servers (mainly 4800/4900) for maintenance purposes. I have to buy usb2serial connector but read many times that not every connector works with sun's servers. Could you please suggest one which ...

Solaris 8 on sunfire V245?

119 byte By jarberta at 2007-11-26 23:49:31
Hi,does anyone know if it's possible to install Solaris 8 on a Sunfire V245?RegardsJArbert

where can I find detailed references for rmclomv issues?

94 byte By hastelcoa at 2007-11-26 23:57:18
and can you please explain to me this : rmclomv CPU_FAN @ MB.p1.f1.rs has failed