Has anyone managed to RHEL4 on to a x4200 using Kickstart?It seems to me that the initial kernel image doesn't support the NICs, as once it attempts the second DHCP lookup my Kickstart/DHCP server receives no network traffic from it.I've tried Updates 3 and 5, and the X4200 Resource CD ...

I presently have a 36GB Seagate Cheetah fibre channel drive and would like to add a larger drive. Would a Seagate Cheetah 146 GB ST3146707FC or Seagate Cheetah 300GB ST3300007FC fibre channel drive work in my system. When I looked at what resellers were offering, the largest they had was a 73 ...

I have an Ultra 5 that was rescued from the recycler that I am hoping to learn Solaris with. Before I get the OS installed, is it possible to find out what specs this box has? I have the serial # from the case, and thought maybe that corresponded to a configuration I could look up somewhere. ...

Ok, I'm relatively new to Sun hardware and wanted a box to play with solaris 10. I have a blade 100 that doesn't POST and there is no green light on the power button. I have removed ever add-on card etc... and still nothing. The drives are however receiving power. Do I have a bricked 100? or ...

Hi,Has anyone been able to get any sort of meaningful interfacing in to the raid system so that changes in the raid array can be notified. As it currently stands the only notification of any changes in the array is via a popup in windows, No event logs, no means of notification, no nothing, ...

Two questions both relating to my trying to update my OBP:1. when I typebanner I get ... AXi (UltraSPARC-IIi), PS/2 keyboardOpenBoot 3.10.12 SME...but when I type .version I get OBP 3.10.12My question is which OBP update to use, AXi OBP 3.10.13 or OBP 3.10.31?2. When I try to install either I ...

Hi There,I am looking for an upgrade to my Linux-box as a server (PIII/500) and stumbled upon a 220R enterprise. I do have any experience, but not much, with Windows. What can I do with it and can I add a Wifi-card in order to attach wireless (laptop) to wired as I can with my server right now? ...

Hi, I have an A1000 Storedge Raid, currently fully populated with 36G disks. I thought this was the maximum disk size the chasis would take, however upon reading the hardware specification of the A1000 at: http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_private/Systems/A1000/spec.htmlIt states I can run 73.4G ...

I'm trying to configure jumbo frames on just one interface of a v245 as well as setting the speed and duplexing.On bge0 I want to force it to 100mb Full DuplexOn bge1 I want to force it to 1000mb Full Duplex and set the MTU to 9000.I've setup a script to force bge0 to 100mb full duplex like ...

I'm hoping some HW experts can help me out with a question regarding a bunch of old E250s we have here:Background: Our hardware vendor has informed us that the V440 we've been using as a "sandbox" dev environment is no longer supported, and must be upgraded to a V880 at a total cost of nearly ...

Dear all,I am running VMWare ESX 3.0 on 16 Sun Fire V40z.When I query the SP for the OS state (platform get os state) I always get "OS booting" even when the OS has finished.Is there a way to have the right state displayed ?Many thanks.--Eric

HiI have a v440 server and I want to know how can I get the Lsi model (Raid hardware controller). Thanks in advanceMessage was edited by: awenne

I looked on sunsolve and it appears that the 4GB emulex and qlogic cards are supported on the netra 1290. Is there any roadmap for these cards being supported on the 1290?

Dear all,I bought a new harddrive of 73g for sun blade 1000 and when I start up it I get something like that:boot device: disk file and args:the file just loaded does not appear to be executable {0} ok--According to the first displayon the screen, the keyboard is present but I can do anything ...

Dear All,Does sun blade 1000 support a harddrive 73gb type ST373405FC?If not, Please let me know if there is a solution?Thanks in advance for your help,

I found an earlier thread about possibly upgrading an Ultra 5 CPU and see it's pretty dependent on the system board number. Where do I find this number?I'm looking at going from a 360 MHz to a 440.Also, if my system is compatible, is this a simple drop in swap or is more involved?Thanks for ...

hi all,just would like to clarify whether SOL 8 is supported for this hardware?thx much.

Hello. I had a Sun Technician install an XVR-100 card into each of my 4x490s. I am trying to boot my Solaris boxes to display on a KVM switch, though I get NO display? Any suggestions?To do anything, I need to at least get a promptRegardsJeff W

Hi,We recently got a Sun Fire v445 server, which is running Solaris 10. The system is up and running but none of our main applications have been deployed to it since we find out that every day the fans become way too noisy which may indicate that the server is over heating. I have double ...

Hello There,I am trying to setup LOM setting in SunFire V120. I couldn't able to find out how to setup Network Variable in SunFire V120. setupnetwork command doesn't work in LOM and also i don't see in help when i type help in LOM> prompt. Anybody knows, what is the way to setup Network ...

This is in regards to my Ultra 80 Workstation with an XVR-1000 video card running OpenSolaris b55b.I don't think the Subject line accurately describes it, but basically the problem is that my monitor is in powersaving throughout the boot process until GDM loads. Once GDM loads (i.e. X is ...

This is in regards to my Ultra 80 with XVR-1000 video running OpenSolaris. The mouse and keyboard are both Type 6.The mouse cursor motion on my machine is not smooth at all--it seems like it updates at 10 fps or something. The resolution is fine (i.e. if I move the mouse slowly enough, I can ...

Hello everybody,Here we have a Sun Enterprise 5500 system on which I tested to run scadm. I found two files:/sbin/platform.../Sun-Fire-V240/../scadm/sbin/platform.../Sun-Fire-V250/../scadmand when I run each I get back this error:scadm: The sc hardware could not be initialized. Please tell ...

I tried resetting firmware password successfully on sun blade 100 ;By removing the nvram chip and got the ok promptlater "set-defaults" ; ""setenv security-mode none" commands succesfully removed the firmware password on sun blade 100But when I tried the same on sun blade 1000 ; its accepting ...

Disclaimer: Know little about Sun.We are a windows and Linux shop and got an old Sun server to evaluate. Funny thing, I can't find any information online on how to get into it.I've read: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/806-4806-10.pdfpages 64ish, and I understand the ...

Have acquired an existing X4200 and the root password on the ILOM is unknown. How can I change back to default password (changeme) for the root userid so I can control.thanks,PP

Help.....does anyone know the use for the 34 pin connector at J13 on the Chimera card? It looks like an IDE connector, or even a floppy drive connector. I am reluctant to use it until I know it's purpose. Also, where can I pick up a user's manual for the card? Thanks in advance.

Hi folks, I am trying to gather some string patterns that indicate hardware error in /var/adm/messages? like scsi error, memory/cpu etc.Do you know if Sun have this string database that is available to us?Dk

Hi all, First when this server was started everything was fine. He started, the video was running. After the configuration of ILOM from BIOS menu, the server was rebooted. After that he never shown anything on the display. Serial interface is working , the ILOM doesn't redirect to KVM. Can ...

i tried installing solaris 10 on my ultra 10 i got to disk number 5 and the installation stopped so i turned off the system, then turned it back on now my monitor wont display the startup screen. Is the motherboard broke or is it somthing else?

Anyone know where i can download the SUE disk for OPB and firmware updates? ive had a good look around and dont know how to source this. Any help appreciated. Many Thanks, Paul.

hi,i have new ultra25 (no keyboard+no mouse). i connected it via console --ttya port. i have installed solaris 9 with latest recommended patch. problem is, the machine always shutdown or halt after 1 day.i dont see any errors at /var/adm/messages. i have also disable power.conf. ...

Hi,Is there any PROM update available for Netra T1 AC200 which include the wanboot feature as we can found in 119234-01 for Sun Fire V210/V240?ThanksSC

Dear allI am having troubles with the Remote Control feature integrated in the Sun Fire X4100 ilom.When I click on the "Launch Redirection" button nothing happens. I just have the "Analyzing configuration" text but nothing more.I have tried in both 8bit and 16bit modes with same result. I also ...

Hi All,I have been having a severe problem with one of our servers, our SunFire V210.It had some power issues with the PSU faulting and I have just replaced the power on it. However due to those issues, and some maintenance on it (software) a few times over the past six months it has had to be ...

Hello, I have a problem to get access to my Sunfire 280R with RSC. I磎 the new admin from the server and haven磘 got the passwort. Is it possible to reset the RSC-card to factory default? I have tried the reset jumper on the card. But it isn磘 an factory default. Best regards, ...

I am running a Ultra 20 M2 on SuSE linux and Windows Vista x64. The system fan revs at a higher rate on boot when booting either OS but revs down after a minute once in Windows Vista to a point you can barely tell it's on. When in SuSE (Enterprise Linux Desktop 10) the fan never revs down. Is ...

Hi,I got a warning message: fail-Master Disable for UltraSPARC-II.And the output from prtdiag shows than one of the CPU has gone.Is this a CPU problem?Thank you.Andry

Hello to all,How do I get an HP 9600 series CD-writer to be recognized by my UltraSparc 30?What should the Pin settings on the HP 9600 be?Thank you,James

Dear all,I am having new troubles with X4100 hardware.I am setting up console serial redirection and it does not work properly. Here is what I am doing :- I set up the SP serial port speed to 115200 and commitpending to true.- I set up console redirection port speed accordingly in the BIOS.When ...

Just turned on and installed a SunFire V445 and it is SO LOUD!Does anyone know how I can turn down the FANS to reduce the noise (I suspect the fans are the culprit for the screeeetching here)?

This should be easy:Where can I find CPU-Documentation, that specifies optimum and maximum CPU operating temperatures?Thanks!

What is the maximum LC-LC cable distance between X4200 server (SG-XPCI1FC-QF4) and ST 6140 storage system directly attached. Any idea?

Dear all,I have problems with the SP of a Sun Fire X4600 :reset -script /SP command fails with error reset: No such object valueandstart -script /SYS command fail with error start: Failed to start /SYSIs there a way to force a reboot of the SP without unpluging the power cord ?Ilom version is ...

I have been looking on sunsolve at the relatively new sunblade 6000 system and am a little confused on the X6250 page there is a picture of a blade with four processor sockets and two 2.5inch drive bays now all of the specs say that the x6250 has two CPU sockets and four drive bays. Which is it ...

ok this is a add on from "ultra 10 not displaying anything on monitor" Ive got the problem down to being either the motherboard or the power unit.. Ive got it to this because when i managed to continue installing solaris 10 i recieved a post message saying:power on self test failed cause: ...

I get no network access on a brand-new freshly installed server. I tried the Intel and NVidia ports (eth0-1 and eth2-3) and get a "Check cable" every time.Thinking it was a driver issue, I tried to retrieve updates from the Sun Installation Assistant 2.0.134 and get the same network not ...

When I installed Vista Ultimate onto my Sun Ultra 20 Workstation it did not have drivers for my audio controller (The default one on an Ultra 20 Workstation) nor could it find them. I went onto sun.com and searched for the ultra 20 drivers, I downloaded"Sun Ultra 20 M2 Workstation Tools & ...

Dear All,i have noticed that most of you trying to be very helpfull, i appreciated that really.I have to work with sun V40z in my company, RHEL 4 update 2 has to be installed in that machine. Problem: Installing RHEL AS V4 Update 2 on V40z results in very slow 2D graphics (e.g. just moving a ...

Hello, We just received 2 new SUN V445's each containing 2 73GB drives. We also purchased an additional 6 drives for each unit to load them up to max. We have unboxed and loaded the drives in one unit and it seems to see the additional drives ok, however, I am stuck at getting them to be ...