Can I mix different memory size on cpu/memory board ? For example I have to mix 512MB SDRAM DIMM(X7051A) with 1GB SDRAM DIMM(X7056A) on the same cpu/memory board. I use cpu/memory board on SUN Fire E4900. I don't know that work. Pls help me. Thank you ...

Hi everyone, Well, we got a problem with that network ALOM card ... :-/ We defined it quite well, IP adress and all the easy stuffs but we can't ping it ! We tried to connect by the serial port and it was ok. Our cables are good and the switch is a 10Mb one. Btw, it happens on 4 of our ...

Dear All, Does anyone know if an E250 will run Sun PCi III (SUN PCI 3.2.2) boards and if so how many? Thanks in advance, Hugh

Pardon the explanation here, but I'm a bit of a novice. I had a v440 freeze up the other day without explanation. We are running Solaris 8, fully patched. Here were the symptoms: We received an email notifying us that an external process onitor was unable to make a connection to the ...

Hello guys, My sunfire 240 maintenance led icon lit up. This looks like a wrench icon on face plate of the server. Is there any information that could tell what exactly is the error on the server itself? Thank you for those who will reply. trebalack ...

Can someone shed some light on what caused the system to panic? This is a database server running Oracle 8i. I have gone over the Oracle Alert and Trace logs and found it was 4:49:40 pm when Oracle registered an error in trying to write out to disk. No other Oracle errors were recorded ...

I have got a lot of new/used UltraEnterprise components my company no longer use or need mostly CPU and Memory. Does anyone know of a good reseller where I can dispose of these items?

I'm trying to figure out what tile cut-out size to use in my data center for these servers. Is the whole bottom open?

Solaris newB here. We have a couple of v880s that seems to be on a Power Save mode: Blank Screen. Is there a way to redirect video signals to the monitor? We can still remotely login, but the video display from the direct usb connection does not seem to be sending the signal the usb port.I ...

is proving to be a bit of an issue! Is there a recommended method from Sun detailing how to achieve this? We would like to install windows 2003 server on this box - many thanks for your help, Will Manders ...

My client has an Enterprise 450 server. It is running 2 x 480 MHZ processors. I am trying to downgrade to 2 x 400 MHZ processors because of problems I am having installing software as the software will not install on processors greater than 419 MHZ.. So anyways I removed the 480's and ...

I can't seem to find any information for declassifying FRU's on various Sun systems. I need to obtain SOV's for several systems we need to declassify, but my searches turn up nothing. Does anyone know how this information may be available? -ronny

I am trying to figure out if there is a supported (or working) configuration of a external DVD-RW that I can atach to various V240 machines I have ? Any help would be appreciated..

Hi I got a problem with E3500 server. The error was: Jan 11 22:04:17 oracle unix: sf0:sf0: Target 0x2 Reset Failed. Ret=105^M Jan 11 22:04:18 oracle unix: sf0:sf:Target driver initiated lip^M Jan 11 22:04:18 oracle unix: ID[SUNWssa.socal.link.5010] socal0: port 0: Fibre C hannel is ...

I bought a new X2100. Out of the box it ran fine. I just powered it on at my data center and it appears to not post. The fans never calm down, there's no video, and no console output. The motherboard shows C1 which is normal, I reset the CMOS and it showed C3 which is the bios coming from ...

is there a way to not have a t3 power down when a FRU is missing, e.g. for instance when pulling a drive permantanly because it cause a loop failure? i know the 'proper' thing to do is have another drive in place, but since i don't have one on hand, the box wants to power down. i ...

Hello Support, I have a Sun Ultra 10 used as a workstation for medical equipment/applications. Every morning when it is turned on, it begins to boot up and gives a Boot Failure message for a:. All I do is cycle power and unit comes up correctly. What could be causing this?, Bad sector on ...

Panic [cpu1] / thread=2a100017dd20: free page is not .php 31002A54380 is the error that I'm getting and the server does not come to a login promt how can I fix this and does this mean the cpu is bad ? PLEASE HELP.

Hi all, there is any chance to monitor fan speed, cpu temperature etc. on sun platforms like this: bash-2.03$ uname -a SunOS dev 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 bash-2.03$ /usr/platform/SUNW,UltraAX-i2/sbin/prtdiag System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Netra T1 ...

I was having a problem with my USB mouse on the Sun W2100Z workstation with the latest version of Centos 4.2x64 (2.6.9-22.0.2ELsmp. Centos is a compilation of RHEL4.). Based on the recommendation below from a RHEL4 readme I turned off USB Legacy Support in the system bios. It did not help the ...

I have two SunRay 100 units that I'm trying to use on my network. One of them is working fine, the other is running an older firmware version and requires the dedicated connection (it won't work on the rest of the LAN). I have setup a dedicated connection on a machine and connected the ray ...

We have 5 Sun W2100Z dual opteron systems that have internal Aopen COM5232/AAH cdrom/writer/DVD drives. They all run RHEL 4. We are most of the time unable to read DVDs using these drives on any of the systems. The problem seems OS-related because we can boot from a DVD. When we put in a dvd ...

I'm trying to boot some new x2100s with SATA drives. I'm using a network boot of Linux (Redhat Enterprise Linux v3). The systems will mount their root, usr, and var filesystems over NFS. When the system network boots, it needs to load a module to support the SATA drive. On my V20z's, ...

Hi I running Solaris 10 on ULTRA 10 installed.I want to configure D1000 with ULTRA 10.I inserted scsi diff card(x6541) in slot.I hooked up D1000 with Ultra 10, but the system does't see disk array. I tried with devfsadm amd boot -rv. THANKS.......... ...

I was wondering if these machines are 4rank enabled? Is there a BIOS update that will enable them to be 4 rank regarding memory? I was wondering if anybody has had any success or information on them. Thanks, -jeff

I have a sunfire v250 with solaris 10 installed. I have use the command sys-unconfig to configure this server in my local network. After reboot, I have asked to select the language but the keyboard don't work. Impossible to enter a letter and impossible too to enter openboot(i have use the ...

I have 2 280R's running Solaris 8 and I need to tip from one to the other but I never get a login prompt back from the tip session. I have tested my cable on 2 280R's that are in my lab and the cable works fine. In the lab I am able to "tip -9600 /dev/ttya" from server1's serial ...

Hello, Looking at the specs for the newer Sun boxes coming out, they all say that the minimum supported OS is Solaris 10. Is it Sun's intent to discontinue the ability to run older versions (8/9) on the newer hardware? thx! ...

Hi there, After a non delivery of data by ftp, I made a manual reboot of the server. The logical servers cannot start up because (I think) of the endless messages like these : WARNING: /<a href="mailto:pci&#64;8" target="_blank">pci@8</a>,600000/<a ...

Hi all- I just converted to a W2100z as my workstation this week, so I'm going through the process of getting things configured. I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (workstation) 4, so far with the stock Red Hat kernel (2.6.9-22.0.2ELsmp) and Red Hat's default audio-related packages. ...

I have a sun netra 240 which currently has one 72GB disk, I am adding an extra 72GB disk, my question is do I need to power down the server to insert the new disk or can I insert it while power is on ?

Hi, I am planning to add Seagate SATA as a second drive (primary drive is SCSI) to W2100z. But I am not sure how to set up SATA drive other than enabling the SATA controller in the BIOS. According to <a href=" http://www.directron.com/patasata.html," ...

Hello, My society is using several types of computers, including Sun 1100 stations and I was asked to create a single ghost image of Windows XP for easier maintenance reasons. I run a clean version of Windows on a non-1100 station, and then using the Sysprep tool I include the drivers for all ...

Got a new X2100 server with two SATA disks. I upgraded the BIOS using the Supplemental 1.1 disk. The BIOS revision reported is now 1.0.3. Have defined a hardware RAID mirror of two SATA disks using the BIOS utility. Looks Ok and is reported as "Healty Mirror" when the machine is ...

Have an Ultra 2 with plenty of open memory slots. Do they need to be added in sets of 4 ? Currently 1/2 GB of RAM, need som more. Tips/pointers/RTFMs appreciated Andy

Can the UltraSparc III processor boards on a 15K server be swapped out and upgraded to the UltraSparc IV processor boards? Also, can MIXED processor boards be used on the 15K? In other words, can I use both UltraSparc III and IV boards on a 15k?If so what are the parameters? Are separate ...

Running RHEL 3 U6. I have 2 v40z's and most of the time they wont reboot properly. They shutdown fine. During reboot OS shutdowns down fine, but when the mobo should reset and BIOS should boot, it doesn't. I have tried changing the reboot= kernel params to warm,bios but that had no effect. ...

Dear friends, I am using Sun Sparc solaris 10, I am trying to Mount the usb using the following command and i was successfully & able to mount the usb, but now suprisingly i find problem. the command I used in SU mode is mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s0:c /mnt mount : no such file ...

I have recently bought a Sun Fire x2100 and 2 dimms of Corsair memory , but it doesn't work. I updated the bios to the latest version but it still beeps and shows "C1" on the error-led. The machine does work with a normal 512mb dimm from Corsair. The memory is Corsair 1024mb PC2700 ...

Hi, does anyone know if Sun Ray 1g thin client supports resolution of <a href="mailto:1600x1200&#64;85Hz" target="_blank">1600x1200@85Hz</a>? The refresh rate of 85Hz is quite important, since lower refresh rates hurt my eyes on CRT monitors. Thanks. ...

have an ultra 60 which i jut got and Solaris 9 installed. I was getting it "hooked" up to my home network ie. making the /etc/resolv.conf , the /etc/defaultrouter etc etc.. and for the "HELL" of it I clicked on my CDROM open/close button which i did the day before and would ...

Hi, I'm having trouble updating the BIOS on a v20z. The update procedure fails with timeout: % platform set os state update-bios \ /mnt/sw_images/platform/firmware/bios/V1.34.4.2/bios.sp This command may take several minutes. Please be patient. Bios started Error. The operation ...

Hi all, Recently bought 2 X2100 machines. After when trying to install solaris 10 (03/05) the install process asks for the server name but not the IP address etc.? After Solaris has installed the server has no LAN cards even ifconfig nge0 plumb does not work and ifconfig -a shows only ...

Is there a way to go back through the configuration wizard that is launched on pre-installed machines shipped from solaris? We have recieved a v20z server. The steps we took include: Setting the SP to DHCP, logging in through a SSH client, creating a manger username and password by typing ...

I have go a Ultra 60, a Blade100 and some Intel boxes at home. Tired of connecting and disconnecting the monitors and keep my desk full of mouses and keyboards. Any one know which type of KVM switch is suitable capable for these boxes and does not cost much? Thanks for your suggestion! ...

I am runbning solaris 8 on a 280r with several magma chasis extending the PCI bus and several custom pci cards. I am getting random PCI SERRs.. Thru research I have seen infodoc 72402 which describes a debug driver that will give me the exact diagnostics I am looking for. But no information on ...

Hi there, I had one or two questions about the ultra20 that the sales guys were either unable or unwilling to answer for me. First .. does it use a "standard' socket 939 for the CPU slot? I'd like to buy one, but replace the CPU (upgrade to either an Athlon64 fx series, or x2 series) ...

I hsve an Ultra 10 system. I changed the keyboard from type 6 to type 5c. However, now the mouse is not recognised. I used the mouse which came with type 5 keyboard and also the one with type 6 keyboard but to no avail. There is just a pointer which never moves. I read in a earlier posting ...

Hi all, cause I am not very familiar with hardware related issues I have to ask probably a very silly question. As Sun's marketing state the X2100 provides two hot swappable SATA drive bays. Does that mean that it is permitted to replace a disk on a running system without risking any ...

My 24inch GDM-FW9010 keeps going out of focus. Even the On screen Display is fuzzy so I know it's not a video card issue. To resolve it I need to power cycle the monitor, some times several times. Is this monitor end of life or is there a trick? Degauss doesn't help either. Thanks, 20/20 ...