just want to know what make of BIOS is installed . . . i.e. if you have a x4100 can you please press f2 and have a look . . . cheers <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile"> i have an x2100 which has a 'Phoenix' BIOS installed . . . just want to know if its ...

Okay. I installed a Sun PGX64 (x3768a) graphics card in a V240 on Solaris 10 with full-OEM distribution. In the past, on my older OS and servers, I ran boot -r from OBP to have the system recognize the card.It does not seem to work. There is no signal going to the Sun monitor (which works on ...

The only information regarding the builtin video of the X2100 is that it's an ATI XL with 8MB frame buffer. Will I be able to run this at 1280x1024, 8 bit color ?Is this documented anywhere ? thanks, Don M.

When booting this Ultra 60, it gets to the 'Initializing memory' message and it doesn't go any further. I can see the disk when I get to the 'ok' prompt and do a 'probe-scsi-all'. What kind of problem does this point to?

I've got a W2100z w/ 6Gb of RAM and am considering adding an Ultra 20 (ECC) with the, potential, intent to move some RAM from the W2100z to the new system. The specifications on the RAM look identical to me (assuming I'm all ECC in the Ultra 20). Anyone know for certain if the RAM is ...

I am having difficulty in sourcing a UPS to work with the X4200 running X86 Solaris. I am running a Emerson/Liebert UPS and who do not supply a safe software solution to shut the system down upon powerfailure as the software they have is only for SPARC. The UPS has a web card with SNMP trap ...

One of my L25's has been power cycled and after it starts initializing the following message appears: CHK 262F library.c Line 4529 Path 0000 The manual says "the X axis friction is too high for normal operation". Can this be dealt with or is it a harware call to Sun! ...

I am trying to install Sun GigaSwift Ethernet card (X4445A) to V20z which OS is RedHat AS 3. Downloaded sun-gigaswift-kernel2.4-1.8.zip and tried to install as its pdf says. But I get error on cassini.h. Can't find it. Can anybody help me?

Happened to snag a 250G SATA drive, and I wanted to install it in my Ultra 20. However, it looks like I need a Sun-specific bracket or sled to make it work. Are these available anywhere, or will I have to fab something myself?

I have been asked to monitor the individual CPUs within a SUN Fire 4800. The system has 12 CPUs and the DBAs are saying that some are being hammed! The DBAs bind informix processes to an individual CPU. I have used "sar" to collect some details so far, but the data collected is ...

Hi <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile"> I am a student at a university in Denmark, where we have a bunch of Sun Microsystems dp17mo monitors. The really annoying part is, that they flicker a lot, and that makes it rather unpleasant to work with them for ...

Hi, I hv E3500 system and it has 4 disks. i connect through hyperterminal and booting the system it show the below error: {6} ok boot disk1 Boot device: /<a href="mailto:sbus&#64;2" target="_blank">sbus@2</a>,0/SUNW,<a href="mailto:socal&#64;d" ...

I have a 240 with an Emulex Lp10000-DC fibre card in PCI-0 connected to a Dell 136T tape library [actually a rebranded Adic 100] with 6 IBM LtO-2 drives. Server is running Solaris-9 patched as of 1/1/06, OBP up-to-date, Emulex driver 1.90a4 driver. This configuration works perfectly, I ...

I am having a devil of a time figuring out how to redirect my console output to the serial connection on my x2100. I have checked the BIOS and Console Redirection is set to "Enabled Over COM1" yet I still get nothing. Is there any thing else I need to check/set, is there a special ...

IN <a href="http&#58;&#47;&#47;www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/ docs/html/8" target="_blank"> http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/html/8</a> 19-1160-11/cli_tasks.html 7.6.2.3 Examples To change the IP address for the service processor, ...

I have a stack of new 4100s I need to install Solaris 10 on. I can connect to the ILOM through a serial port. start /SYS, cd to /SP/console, and start that as per the instructions - and the system makes a tremendous amount of fan noise and a bunch of garbage spews out onto my screen. ...

Hey all, I would like to upgrade my workstation to the new Opteron 175 processor (with dual core goodness). Is the W1100Z capable of supporting such a processor. It is only sold with the maximum of an Opteron 150... Does anyone have any ideas? Iain ...

Upgraded a Fire V240 with al the latest patches. (Solaris 9) Solaris 10 DVD media doesn't automount under vold: Added note: the system is fully disk mirrored on 2 disks DVD rom shows in iostat -En: c2t0d0 Soft Errors: 3 Hard Errors: 1 Transport Errors: 0 Vendor: TEACProduct: DV-28E-C ...

Has anyone found a low-noise solution for the w2100z? I have a first rev box and well, its loud even with the fans on low speed. I almost never get it hot enough for the fans to kick into high speeds and I have an extra PCI slot fan "card" in to help pull air around. The CPU fan ...

Martin, et al regarding the posting count. I haven't a clue ! It appears that the admins of the software engine underlying the forums have tweaked something again. Considering the history on that topic, we shouldn't be all that surprised. <u>Everyone</u> that had a large ...

From what I have seen so far the Sun Fire T1000 requires Solaris 10 OS. What would happen if you installed Solaris 8? Are you not able to achieve the true performance from the hardware? Thanks, J

I'm looking for a mutil-blade server with both Intel blades and UltraSPARC blades. Does anyone know a current product out on the market that supports this configuration? Thanks, J

Is it possible to change the resolution of the X4100's ILOM's web interface console? I have a 1024x768 laptop screen and it is just barely usable. TIA, -w

Dear All, I am wondering if someone could help me configure the SunPCi III running XP to play games such as Rome, Guild Wars, World of Warcraft. I have an U60 with an Expert 3D24 card and have XP Professional running on the PCi III board. I have installed Direct X 9.0c and it seems to run OK ...

Sun obviously doesn't really want to sell stuff because I typed in a part number on the main website and nothing was found. I need the mounting bracket for the internal hard drives for an U20 workstation.Can someone tell me how to order one? The part number is 540-6521-01.(HDD2 Slot) ...

Hi, Does any one know the meantime before failure ratings of the V880 and V480. We need to provide SLA for department endusers. I can't seem to find anything on this on Sun solve.

In my office somebody is sending a bulk packet continously. Our environment consist of NIS server for authentication and Cisco routers and switches.How can I trace the source of this packets ? What are the steps ? Thanks, Britto

I'm hoping this is the correct forum to post, but I'm having minor issues with a client's server: Base:E450 / 4 x 400mhz / 2GB OS:Solaris 8 (Feb 02) ; Recommended_8 cluster patch HBA:Qlogic QLA2310 (Fibre 2GB, copper), 4.13.01 Driver (latest) Storage: Infortend EonStor A16F-G (FC-SATA) ...

Hi All, I have got 2 160G IDE Disks. I fixed them into a Ultra10 box, but only 137GB recognized. Somebody tell me it is hardware limitation. 1. Can anybody tell me what kind of workstation / server support 160GB IDE disk ? 2. Any of below platform can support it ? Workstation :Ultra10, Sun ...

My E4000 running Solaris 8 keeps complaining that I need to upgrade the firmware from 3.11 to 3.12 (the 25 MB FCAL adapter on both the SSA and in the E4000) I am using PN 370-1426 for the FCAL adapters. Where do I find this firmware? How do I install it? Any problem after upgrading the firmware ...

I have a QLogic 2100F i think connected to a A5100 Windows detects the new hardware but i do not have drivers for it. It comes up as Sun SENA SCSI Enclosure device and wants a driver for it (14 times 1 for each drive) Am i just missing the drivers for it, is there somewhere i can download ...

Can somebody please help me. I bought a refurbed GDM-5010pt two or three years ago. Probably two years ago. And it has been the best monitor i've had. How ever, around a month ago i had to retire it because the picture went wonky, it constricts the image in the center like an hour glass and ...

Hi, I have two sun servers, both solaris 9, that act as firewalls. I have installed only OS Core. The firewall software is Checkpoint. These two servers are in cluster (checkpoint xl). I have many other sun servers configured in this way that work perfectly. But with these two servers I have ...

We have the following situation: old: Ultra 60 <-> external device new: V240 <-> external device Of course the SW (our SW) is the same. In the old situation evetything works just fine In the new situation when trying to steer the external device we get errors when issueing ...

after diagnosis , I knew that i have a problem in Mbus module , no any out put disply, what should i do? just to replace it ? or what else !!? Regards

Can anyone help and give a beginner help how to install the Intel Network card driver with Solaris 10, please ? I opened devicedb, but the intel pro/1000 gt is not listed. Any suggestions how to install the driver from Intel ? Thanks fpor advise ...

Hi All: Turns out that I can not install Solaris 10 on my Ultra 10 machine, since it has only 4 G. Since Sun's Hard disk is kinda expensive(9G for $90 -about), is it possible to replace with other vendor's hard drive(such as used in PC)? What are the problems that I may come across? ...

SunOS 5.10 Generic_118822-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1500 I have a Sun-Blade 1500 with an xvr-100 and I am running solaris 10 with the above patch level. I Figured out how to setup the xvr/os to use DVI as default video out on solaris 9 - but I can't seem to locate information on how to ...

I have a GDM-5010PT monitor. Are there specific video cards that are compatible with this monitor. If so which ones. THX

I have a ULTRA 10 station. I haven't been using it for a long time. I just installed the OS, however the mouse doesn't work (it doesn't move), the keybord works though. The mouse and Keyboard share one port, so I guess the port is good. Could anyone tell me what is the problem and how I can ...

Hi, I've inherited a SunBlade with an XVR-1200 graphics card, currently setup in widescreen mode over 2 monitors. I've been asked whether it is possible to setup the card such that the second monitor displays exaclty what is on the primary monitor - i.e. everything is replicated (mouse ...

Hi, does anyone know if I can install an external HP tape DAT72 StorageWorks on my SunFire 280R? Thanks!

Hi, I'm a new useer in this forum and i need help to change my keyboard configuration. I've a SB1500 workstation on solaris 10 with an AZERTY keyboard. I change it by an QWERTY but when I use it, it still appear to be an AZERTY. How can I change the keyboard configuration... ? ...

Hello, i've got an Sun (Sony) GDM-20e20 Monitor with an 13w3 Connector for connecting to my Sun Ultra 10 (ati- onboard ). Formerly a standard pc-like Monitor was connected and it worked. Now I've got an 13w3-to-vga ( SUN Partnummer: 530-2917 ) for connecting the GDM20e20 but there's no ...

We purchased several Dell 2405FPW's to go with our SunBlade 1000s. These machines have Creator FFB2+ graphics cards in them, which report (from ffbconfig -res \?) potential resolutions of 1920x1200. However, the highest resolution indicated possible is 1152x900. ffbconfig -res 1920x1200 ...

Dear All, Can someone tell me which is the best (easiest) version of Redhat to install on my Ultra80 with SunPCi III board running SunPCi 3.2.2 software? I know almost nothing about Redhat so I need to have lots of advice. Also where would I obtain the above version of Redhat? Thanks in ...

I have a Windows XP box and would like to have a couple of Sun Ray desktops to have all family members to share XP box resources and possibly applications installed there. What exactly do I need to buy to have it running? What software do I need to install? How many licenses and smartcards ...

Hi all, I'm trying to set up a Sun StorEdge C2 Tape Autoloader in Solaris 9. I hooked it up, terminated it properly, did a boot -r. Solaris sees the actual tape device in /<a href="mailto:pci&#64;8" target="_blank">pci@8</a>,700000/<a href="mailto:scsi&#64;3" ...

I'm trying to figure out how to get the special left-side keys to work (pass through) on Windows XP. I realize that Windows probably isn't going to be able to do anything smart with them. But, I'm using NoMachine NX (or Hummingbird) for a remote (X) Solaris desktop session over a VPN. ...

Hello, Sytem Sun ultra 20, with suse linux 10, kde 3.50 Is it possible to ativate the 10 left special keys,Stop, and more. Did someone find a solution for this ? <a href="mailto:jghol&#64;xs4all.nl" target="_blank">jghol@xs4all.nl</a> ...