do I have configured a v890 with metadevices, one metadevice ie /dev/md/dsk/d6, sending messages of "out of inodes", can I work directly with the metadevice to assign more #of inodes or should I assign the inodes separately to the disks that conform the metadevice?I wait they can help me.Thank ...

I want to know which java API is used for the above said purpose and any other sugestion regarding the above topic.I want to make the software for interfacing the human thermometer to the PC. my email address is sanaullah_qureshi@hotmail.com

Hi All,we've got an E450 server which crashed yesterday with the following messages:///////////////WARNING: [AFT1] Uncorrectable Memory Error on CPU3 Data access at TL=0, errID 0x 000405b6.816c859eAFSR 0x00000000.80200000 AFAR 0x00000000.7649f528AFSR.PSYND 0x0000(Score 05) AFSR.ETS 0x00 ...

Hi Everybody,I am getting the below Warning message frequently with my system, what might be problem behind this."Apr 6 10:50:57 hostname scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@8,700000/scsi@2 (mpt0):"Regards,Bikash

I got this USB wirelss adapter,Linksys WUSB11Wireless USB Network AdapterIs this Solaris friendly? If not, which brand (wireless PCI/usb cards) I should try here?Thanks

Hi,The server unexpectedly switched off yesterday morning.The only one log line I found, by picld, saidWARNING: Device PS0 failure detected by sensor PS0_FAULT_SENSOR.The system is a SunFire 280R and has two power supplies. When I reached it, some 18 hours later, the general fault amber led was ...

Hello,I recently got in an X2100 M2 and am having problems getting an OS on it. I can't get the server to see the hard drives at all. They don't show up in BIOS and when I try to load RHEL 4 ES Update 4, it doesn't see any drives to install the OS on. I also tried using Fedora Core 6 and it ...

What nforce chip does the ultra 20 m2 use? Its the 03-M2 config . I cannot find anywhere what particular chipset is being used. I want to download the latest drivers from nvidia.com for the correct version...

Hi everyone,I am just wondering if it is possible to set up a hardware Raid 10 on a Fire V445. As far as I read the documentation the answer is no! Although it is mentioned under "Highlights" in the server's data sheet where it says: "Hardware-RAID 0, 1 und 10"Using the SAS Controller for ...

Can anyone point me at a list of current Sun servers that support hardware based RAID?

Greetings,I have an SunFire 280R running solaris 10 update 11/06, to this system is attached an eonstor disk array (24 * 750 GB ) disk drives, but when booting the system i get the error "disk capacity is too large for current cdb length" which shocks as i would expect that a modern operating ...

I have a Sun Sparc Ultra 10, and it doesn't complete the boot: usually it doesn't turn on monitor, and sometimes it gives me OBP prompt with message "Watchdog reset".Once I gave the test-all OBP command with the following answer:Testing /pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/SUNW,isptwo@4Selftest failed. ...

Trying to setup hardware raid on a v250 and having no success. Wondering if I'm mistaken in believing that it has the ability!raidctl just returns "disks must be different" on creation attempts. And yes, the disks ARE different :-)

I just bought a Sun Netra T1 AC2000, however the system asks for a "firmware password".How would I reset it?I tried fooling around with jumpers, jp13/jp14 with no success.Where is the password stored? in NVRAM or in the System Configuration Card?

Does Sun still provide hardware support for the E4500?

Can older V240s 1.28Ghz/OBP 4.13.2 or 1.05Ghz OBP 4.11.4 use PC2700 memory? Recently upgraded newer V240 1.35GHZ/OBP 4.16.2 w/out a problem.

Any way to use the serial number to roughly calculate the manufacture date of a given server?

Hi,I just got my hands on an old Netra X1 and am planning on setting it up with Linux as a home server. I've had a little experience with Sun kit in the past and remember there were a few issues with disk size limitations.My question is - If I were to by a reasonibly big disk (between 250Gb ...

Hi,we have Sun Ultra 20 workstation and we would like to upgrade disk capacity. There is serial ata and we have 250gb disk. In system handbook there are two possibilites of disks 80 and 250 gb, but in the sunstore it's possible to select in the drop down list also others - e.g. 750gb - would ...

The service (yellow) LED on a new V440 is cycling on and off, mostly on, but there are no faults visible in prtdiag and the syslog is clean. Could this be caused by a non-conforming or 3rd party DIMM configuration? (We bought the system from a VAR who had a track record of picking junk off the ...

I'm looking to buy a V215 server with the following configuration but I have concerns about the PCI slots. I don't know if I have enough of the correct type (I'm unsure about backwards compatibility etc.) Can someone advise me on whether this configuration would work?The V215 has the ...

Hello all,I would like to upgrade the OS on an old 420R running Solaris 7 11/99 using a network installation server I set up. I need to boot it as a DHCP client to install a new OS over the network. When I tried to "boot net:dhcp - nowin" as I have with other servers, it does not boot and ...

Hello,I am having quite some DDSPE errors (up to 50 per day) on several SunV210/240 systems running Solaris 9:SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi: [ID 329692 kern.info] NOTICE: [AFT0] DDSPE Event on CPU0 in User mode at TL=0, errID 0x0006f281.edfa67d2Fault_PC 0xff1c7108SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi: [ID 662133 ...

We have a T1000 that wont start using it ALOM. We get the following error:SC Alert: SC Request to Power Off Host Immediately.We have tried starting in Maint and debug mode. With the same results. We can't get to the Ok prompt to try a network boot.Has anyone got any suggestions? Do you need ...

Hello,Anybody has any idea how can i switch from ALOM to system console.when i do break then sc> breakBreak can't happen due to the system power is off.sc> consoleEnter #. to return to ALOM.sc> poweronthen system boots up to the operating system then i try to do the following# ...

Hello all,I have a Sunblade 1000 that came with no DVD drive. I found a drive on eBay, model 390-0025. I installed it, however it doesn't seem to be getting any power. I see no lights during boot, and nothing happens when I press the eject button. The system came with a smart card reader also, ...

HII have 2 v890s in a cluster, but they have different OBP firmware levels:System PROM revisions:-OBP 4.22.19 2006/09/06 23:49System PROM revisions:-OBP 4.18.8 2006/01/19 11:19I've wasted a good half-hour of my life on the Sun site looking for the download are - can anyone direct me to it pls? ...

Hello from Switzerland.I'm not only pretty new to this forum but also to Sun, Cobalt, Solaris and all this stuff. Before getting to topics I would like to mention that I'm no native speaker, a heavy Apple and NeXT user who is not very familiar with UNIX, LINUX and all this. So please excuse ...

If I could install an RSC card in a SB 2000, would it think it is a SF 280R? They share the same systemboard.

Hello, we are using Sun Fire X2100 M2 with dual-core Opteron processor. I have two simple questions:Two applications are running parallel and want access memory at the same time (different memory cells). Does architecture support this simultaneous operation or access to memory is sequential. I ...

hello, I just start to using x4100 servers.and I have a question about this hardware.Once I put on two AC cables to servers, than servers will power onautomatically.so I wondering that how to setup this servers to power on by power button.Do I need to change some parameters at BIOS ...

I would like to purchase a sun server for development/hosting demos at work. We don't have a dedicated machine room. I tried a T1000 on a try and buy and it was an excellent machine but incredibly noisy. I need a machine that can run multiple simultaneous threads so as a minimum I require 2 * ...

We recently upgraded our ALOM to 1.6 on a V240 machine so we could utilize support of ssh.Since the upgrade, when configured to ssh, it hangs periodically. I don't know the frequency, other than to say I've been resetting it almost every day.I set it back to telnet and it does not hang.Has ...

Hi I have problem with my Ultra 60.when i do:probe-scsi-all/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3it hangs. set-defaults doesn't hep. Have you got any ideas what to do?Paul.

Will that work?The quad core chips will have the same pin count and are Socket F. Will the M2 servers support the quad core chips, when they come out?

Can someone tell me how to update the Sun V20 BIOS, I have windows 2003 server installed.

Don't know if this is a right place, if it's not, please direct me, thanks!I had a SPARC Ultra 10 machine running under Solaris 10, it wasrunning for couple months. Recently when I reboot it, it was hang at"Use is subject to license terms."I press STOP+A to bring me to ok prompt, then type ...

I'm really interested in purchasing a Sun Fire x2200 but Sun sales support has not been responding to my email and IM requests for information about the base configuration. Here's my question: Does the base config (Config 1-M2) contain drive trays to install my own hard drives or are the bays ...

Hi all,I am encountering some hardware problems with an Ultra 10 workstation and just wanted to see if anyone has had the same problem or can confirm my suspicions. The system boots fine, but shortly after will crash to the ok prompt. When the boot command is issued, the system goes down and ...

In the last 6 months I've had 4 hard disks fail in these servers and at no time has there been either anything in the SP, the only time it's been noticed that there's a disk failure is when I reboot the box with a console attached to it.They have all been Fujitsu MAY2073RC'sIs anyone else ...

Can the OBP on Sun Fire V240 be updated? If so how?

I wish to upgrade/expand the memory in my 420R from 2Gb to 4Gb. I have a complete set of memory totaling 4Gb from another 420R with boot issues (to be resolved later). I remove all memory fro the ailing 420R, set aside, then remove original 2Gb from 420R and replaced with the 4Gb of memory. ...

Hi,I have to replace the SCC card on a sunfire V250 running solaris8.Does anybody know how to modify the host id and mac address on this card ? This would avoid a long licensing process.Tx

Hi, everybody!My name is Svetoslav Slavkov from Bulgaria. I've got problem with SunBlade150 and Sun/Unix USB keyboard Type7-they doesn't work together. The message is-USB devise not respond/KB not present. This workstation is withouth hard disk and I'd like to boot from CD-ROM, that's why I ...

Hi, everybody!My name is Svetoslav Slavkov from Bulgaria. I've got problem with SunBlade150 and Sun/Unix USB keyboard Type7-they doesn't work together. The message is-USB devise not respond/KB not present. This workstation is withouth hard disk and I'd like to boot from CD-ROM, that's why I ...

I am trying to add an eSATA card into my Ultra 40 Workstation and I am getting the following message:Expansion ROM not initialized - PCI Mass Storage Controller on Motherboard.Bus:02 Device:00 Function:00I am able to hit F1 to continue past this message but I would like to get my settings ...

Hi AllWe have a Sun Fire V40z remote console configured.I am able to see the console till i get the login screen of the OS. Once i get the login screen of the OS, console gets hung.Any body please let me know what is the problemThanks in advance Kanki

My Raq 550 has an email glitch every now and then the server will continue to accept incoming mail but clients can't access through POP to check their mail. It won't restart with the Admin GUI, I try to SSH in and use the /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart/ command but it won't restart the email ...

Can I have only one OS e many servers modules? I would like to know if is possible que a set of server module can configured to work as a only one machine - and only onde OS (and which OS? Solaris and RedHat?)

I am trying to install solaris 10, but when I put the cd in the cdrom and issue the command boot cdrom -text I get the following error"Boot device: /pci@le,600000/ide@d/cdrom@0,0f File and args -text"Can't open boot device.Is this becuase the machine which is a V240 does not have the cdrom ...