V210 power fault, what is "underspeed" for the powersupply ?

602 byte By brassel at 2007-11-25 22:46:22
Hello,I have some V210 servers and one of it send me this messages : Message:"MAJOR: PSU @ PS0 has FAULTED."If I look the "showenvironment" on the RSC I have this :--Power Supply Indicators: --SupplyActive Service OK-to-Remove--PS0OFFONOFF Power Supplies: Supply Status ...

can't access Solaris 8 box (X1/V100) through telnet or serial - help

1414 byte By at 2007-11-25 22:46:23
I wonder if anyone out there has any suggestions as to what I might do to solve this slightly sticky problem.cssd: The process "cs00.sh has been exited with retcode#256last message repeated 79 timesis displayed on the consoleWhen telnet connection attempt made to the box it allows login ...

V1280 warnings

2402 byte By lh_keepr at 2007-11-25 22:46:24
Has anyone determined what could cause the following warning messages to display? Everything is running fine or appears to be. Prtdiag shows no problems; netstat -i shows no errors, collisions, etc. Here are the messages: Feb 9 10:06:27 proddb1 pcisch: [ID 100033 kern.info]Feb 9 ...

V120 Fault light on and not off

297 byte By taoismc at 2007-11-25 22:46:25
Hello,I've got a Sun V120. Today the fault light is on.From the lom I find : +1d+2h29m25s supply rail 4 FAULT: failed +1d+2h29m25s fault led state - ON +11d+8h32m44s supply rail 4 recoveredBut the light is still on, Why it is not off?Thanks

v240 only powers on to ALOM

653 byte By at 2007-11-25 22:46:26
I have a 240 here that will only power up to the ALOM. I am connected through the serial port via hyperterm on a windows box. If I power on either way the power light does not come on on the front of the server. Issuing the poweron command from the sc prompt will spin the fans and disks but I ...

Problem in Internal tape Drive of Netra 20

944 byte By Bikash at 2007-11-25 22:46:27
hi everybody,I am getting a problem with internal tape drive.My Netra 20 Server having Solaris 8 in it is online and is busy, and I am unable to shutdown. When I tried to take a backup in tape, error message displayed"No such Devices or Address"I went to /dev/rmt directory and deleted ...

prtdiag -v showing bogus 'Current sensor' failed

711 byte By miked at 2007-11-25 22:46:28
I have several machines that are giving the following from prtdiag -v:Current sensors: -Location Sensor CurrentLoLoWarn HiWarnHiStatus -PS0FF_OC - ----okayPS0FF_NR - ----failedI have loaded ALOM 1.5.3.Other info:SunOS eiecimg 5.9 Generic_112233-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V250OBP 4.11.4 ...

Controller number assignments on 220R and 280R

3523 byte By jmsalvo at 2007-11-25 22:46:29
I am trying to share a StorEdge 3310 between a Sun Enterprise 220R and a Sun Fire 280R. In order to share the disk via Solaris9 SVM disk sets, the disks needs to be addressed similarly on both hosts ( must have the same c#t#d# ).I have installed Solaris9 on both, with 1 internal disks, 1 ...

d130 multi hosted on Netra t1 105

1482 byte By rainermoser at 2007-11-25 22:46:30
Hi Guru's,I want to setup an Sun Cluster for testing purposes and have the following hardware to use : - 2xNetra t1 105 1GB/2x18GB/1Gigabit Adapter (for Interconnect)- Netra st d130 Storage (3x18GB). (just one)When I try to setup the d130 I get an SCSI-Error.I have changed the ...

Sunfire B1600 issues

1519 byte By dbjelf at 2007-11-25 22:46:31
I've been having serious problems with our four Sunfire b1600's. Wondering if anyone else out there is seeing it. We have four of these chasis with anywhere from 5 to 12 blades in use.We also have spare unused blades in each chasis. When we go to usethe spare blades, install os and boot up, ...

Sun Fire V210 - PSU @ PS0 has FAULTED

2528 byte By aroth at 2007-11-25 22:46:32
Hi everbody,has anyone of you experienced this and helps me understand what is going on?The ONLY powersupply of our Sun Fire V210 seems to be faulted (but not failed!). LEDs indicate that, but everything still works. I get this error message on the console every 15 minutes: Apr 4 13:01:05 loop ...

Amber light: sunfire v100

361 byte By jsheffie at 2007-11-25 22:46:33
Hi,I'm new here and did a quick search, but... I can't find the stuff I'm looking for.I have a Sunfire v100 and the hardware light on the front of the box is a solid amber. Does anyone here know where to download the tools to test the system for possible failures, or exactly which logs to ...

How to recover 280R LOM password

110 byte By SKyTim at 2007-11-25 22:46:34
Hi All,I have one 280R server. How to recover 280R LOM password?Regrads,Tim

Problem on E3500

603 byte By kcaptain at 2007-11-25 22:46:35
Dear all expert,I am the beginner and I bought a Sun E3500 server but i can't boot it up. I placed a solaris 10 installation in DVD-ROM, how can I boot up the system from that DVD and install it?While i boot up the system (diag) , i saw a white screen and showNo ONLINE status! Check H/W and ...

Sun Fire V880 FATAL Sys Hardware

258 byte By at 2007-11-25 22:46:36
Good Morning, I received a "(ID 796976 kern.notice) System booting after fatal error FATAL Sys Hardware" in my message log. The server booted itself only once. Can anyone tell me what problem this relates to?Thanx - Eric

Unrecognized magic number in media label

1554 byte By sunkid at 2007-11-25 22:46:37
Hi to all!can anyone provide me some troubleshooting procedure regarding my problem below...im trying to install a brand new SEAGATE ST373453LC to my netra t1 105, but i cant get rid ot the message below...the new scsi drive is the only scsi drive that will be installed in my new system....by ...

V240 no longer displays temperatures

343 byte By su_A_ve at 2007-11-25 22:46:38
Is it me or prtdiag -v no longer displays temp. info.Currently I only see Temperature sensors:LocationSensor StatusMB/P0 T_CORE okayMB/P1 T_CORE okayMB T_ENC okayPS0FF_OT okayPS1FF_OT okayAnd I believe it used to display the actual temperature...TIA... ...

v20z video card upgrade?

195 byte By at 2007-11-25 22:46:39
Hello All,I'd like to install a better video card on a v20z we have. Does anyone know of a good 3d (prefer nvidia) video card that will fit in the v20z? Thanks.--ryan

V210 Disk Mirroring

1063 byte By moyes_boy at 2007-11-25 22:46:40
We have a new V210 with 2x1.3GHz CPU, 2GB RAM and 2x73GB HDD. It came from Sun's rental company with Solaris 9 installed, as requested, and the following partitions on disk 0:0 - root 4GB1 - swap 4GB3 - /var 4GB4 - unused5 - unused6 - unused7 - /export/home 56GBOur aim is to mirror root, swap, ...

V210 controller issue

9185 byte By pvanhuffel at 2007-11-25 22:46:41
Hello,We're installing 5 V210 servers through jumpstart, but there is one server where the disks are on a different controller, at least so it seems. With 4 of the servers, the disks are on c1t0d0 and c1t1d0, but the 5th is showing his disks on c0t0d0 and c0t1d0. This is quite annoying for ...

dvd device unknown on v880 with solaris 9

394 byte By rani at 2007-11-25 22:46:42
Hello,My DVD device is not seen by solaris.Seen by probe-scsi-all at the O.K. prompt.OK boot cdrom worksAfter booting solaris, I put a CD on the device, but the volmgt doesn't show nothing. volmgt stop and volmgt start, but nothing in /cdromMount manually doesn't work.No link in /dev/dskNor ...

Problem to boot the server Sun 9 Netra 240 after installing Driver SCSI 115667

542 byte By bakkali_l at 2007-11-25 22:46:43
Hello every body,when i try to boot the system i have the error "Fcode map-in doesn't match decoded register type" Data Access error, and then still at open boot mode.i have this error after the installation of the driver SCSI 115667. my system work with two disc, and i configure the ...

ALOM or RSC?

517 byte By rsethi at 2007-11-25 22:46:45
Do the V890 and V490 platforms support RSC cards, or ALOM+ cards?According to the Sun System Handbook the V890 IO board has a slot for an ALOM+ card. But...Why can a purchase both RSC cards and ALOM+ cards when only ALOM+ cards should only technically fit (according to the IO board layout)? ...

Sun Ultra Enterprise 450 server

152 byte By whiteSox at 2007-11-25 22:46:47
Can any one please answer this can i boot the 450 in 32 bit if i am running solaris 8 .any help will be very helpfull. Thanks in advance .

V880 Disk Errors with iostat -E

8915 byte By rrebstoc at 2007-11-25 22:46:48
All, I have a SunFire V880 configured with Solaris 8, Veritas Volume Manager 3.5 and a 2nd PCI I/O Controller using DMP on 12 Interal 73GBFCAL Hard Drives in a 5 Column Stripe/Mirror with 2 OS Drives/mirrored. Im getting the following errors on my Physcial Devices reported from iostat -En . ...

Connect Laptop to Sun 5500

1532 byte By evicm at 2007-11-25 22:46:49
Hello, I am new to Sun hardware, but have spent many many hours using the Solaris O/S. I have recently been asked to set up a lab for my team and was given a Sun 5500 as my first project. They have given me complete control to do whatever I want with it, but I am having trouble just getting ...

diag ouput to RSC on V880 ?

1399 byte By dm6079 at 2007-11-25 22:46:50
I've just spent a week getting all our Sun boxen hooked up to a private network for the RSC/SC ports and redirecting console I/O to these RSC ports. All appeared to be working fine - telnet into the RSC, halt, diddle the OBP, printenv, reboot - true console access via this RSC card.Then we ...

Sun e250 with Seagate ST318203LC

1892 byte By joemanz at 2007-11-25 22:46:51
I'm having problem with seagate ST318203LC not showing up as 18.2GB capacity on Sun Enterprise 250.. I ran the format command and print the partition table and this is the result:AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:0. c0t0d0 <SUN9.0G cyl 4924 alt 2 hd 27 sec 133> /<a ...

Sun Ultra Enterprise 450 server

272 byte By whiteSox at 2007-11-25 22:46:52
Can any Please answer this question as I have an E 450 and that has a backplane installed that can hold 20 Disk what is the MAX disk Size that I can buy for this servers is 36, 72 or 146 GB or larger then that .Any help will be appreciated .thanks in advance

Problem with a SunFire V880

415 byte By gprosnier at 2007-11-25 22:46:53
Hello,Since few days, I have A SunFire V880 which stops alone.There is the last message written in /var/adm/messages before the reboot:todds1287: [ID 429363 kern.warning] WARNING: Power button is pressed, powering down the system!But, nobody pressed on the button.Did somebody already ...

ac power failed of E4500

1603 byte By weizhen at 2007-11-25 22:46:54
This week, our E-4500 server restarted 2 times automaticlly. At first time,I can't find any error in /var/adm/messagesbut I found some infomation in "prtdiag -v"Most recent AC Power Failure:=============================Fri Sep 26 01:59:24 2005Power Supplies:SupplyStatus ...

E450 CPU temps dont make sense

1797 byte By at 2007-11-25 22:46:55
OK, I'm stumped. I've tried everything I can think of up to and including replacing CPU's and I can't figure out what's going on.I have an Ultra E450 with 4 UltraSparc II CPU's... there is no O/S installed - haven't even been able to get there...Here's the VERY repeatable problem:1. A ...

Flash Firmware Update on E450

410 byte By digitalmechanic at 2007-11-25 22:46:56
My E450 Firmware and probably OpenBoot are way out of date...I don't have a running system so I can create a bootable disk with the flash images on it....Is there anyway to create a bootable flash image on a floppy without a running box?My OpenBoot is 3.7 and everything reported from .version ...

How to check CPU usage from command line

149 byte By DavidSun at 2007-11-25 22:46:57
Hi all,Can you tell me how to check the CPU/memory usage from the command line.Is there any command for that.David

Question regarding Sun Fire 280R

442 byte By Litmis at 2007-11-25 22:46:58
I am having a problem with a SunFire 280R Server. The server reboots at random times by itself. I have two other 280Rs that do not do this. We went ahead and upgraded the OS to Solaris 10 and still have the same problem. All that this currently on it is the OS.Does anyone know where I can get ...

v890 RSC card - different somehow?

1146 byte By soppenlander at 2007-11-25 22:47:00
I use Aurora Aries cards in my console server. I ran into a problem when I ran serial lines to my new v890's, and I was hoping someone here might have the answers. Here's some data points:The serial management port on the v240, the serial mgmt port on the RSC card that ships with the v440, ...

df: cannot statvfs I/O error

596 byte By DavidSun at 2007-11-25 22:47:01
Hi,On giving the command df -k, I am getting the following error:df: cannot statvfs /stage: I/O errorHere "stage" is a file system that is mounted in c0t5d0.This particular hard disk is detected and seen using the "#format" command. I am not able to mount the file system ...

Error after installing tape drive

5245 byte By Rajendra at 2007-11-25 22:47:03
Hi,I am a newbie to Solaris, I have a SunFire V120 box, i was trying to install a tape drive(HP SureStore DAT24), i did the install in this manner.# rm -rf /etc/path_to_inst# init 6later at the "ok" prompt i gave "boot -ar" after doing that it asked me various options i ...

EU 450

419 byte By whiteSox at 2007-11-25 22:47:05
Can any one Please answer my question . I have a UE 450 with 4 /400MHz /4MB cache CPUs and I already have 10 9 GB Disk installed I want to add 6 36 GB Disk Can I reconfigure the 9GB and new 36GB disks to co-exist with each other, correct Do any one seen any issues with that issues when you try ...

SUN Fire V880 Panic

442 byte By dshenkute at 2007-11-25 22:47:06
Sun Fire v880 when booting shows the following:Takes too much to boo then shows the following WARNINGS: pcisch1 : ino 0x4 has been blockedWARNING : qlc0 : interrupt has been blockedWARNING : pcisch1 : ino 0x4 has been blocked then the machine writes messages which i could not get hold of and ...

Memory error on V440

6690 byte By pcoffey at 2007-11-25 22:47:07
I started having some corrected memory errors on a v440 today and I'm not sure what two of these are, the (FRC) and remote memory/cache (RCE) errors.Can anyone tell me what these are and how to determine the board the error is actually occurring on? Thanks Here are the messages: Oct 4 12:28:46 ...

V480 missing 2 gig of RAM

1620 byte By sunspot at 2007-11-25 22:47:08
HelloWe have a V480 that has got a bit mixed up. It used to have16GB of memory installed but now shows the following. I believe these are 512mb dimms and there will be 16 of them on each board, A and B. I assume Board B shows correct and since its 8 way interleaving it must be full. I believe ...

how to connect sun DAT reader to hp server, pls it's urgent

546 byte By poli at 2007-11-25 22:47:09
I have a problem, please help me. I can not connect a Sun DAT reader to a HP ProLiant DL380 server which has Linux Enterprise Update 4 installed. When I start the server with the DAT reader connected at SCASI it gives an error - Non system-disk etc. When I start it without DAT reader connected ...

Panic Error

5123 byte By murtazat at 2007-11-25 22:47:10
Dear All,I have a Sunfire 6900 System,From past 15days i get the following error messages and the system reboots.The system panics,When i see the /var/adm/messages,I find error for a particular CPU..Following is the o/p of /var/adm/messages..Oct 11 08:35:47 kapttdw1 ...

Additional CPU for V240 Server

169 byte By bnp_unix at 2007-11-25 22:47:11
Hi,Just like to know is it possible to add in 1 more CPU for SUN Fire V240 (currenly there is only 1 CPU). The CPU clock speed is 1.34Ghz.TIA

SUNFIRE SERVERS

479 byte By theengineerwhogotaway at 2007-11-25 22:47:12
Hi Bill I was wondering Why you are very reluctant to add the SUNFIRE servers to the forumMany people out there have these boxes and some are comming off support and people need help.They are not as complicated as you may have been lead to belive and in fact can be diagnosed much more easly ...

OBP version Netra AX1105-500

203 byte By jgrinwis at 2007-11-25 22:47:13
Hi,we're running Solaris9, does anynody know what the latest available OBP version for the Netra board AX1105-500 is.we're currently running 4.0.2Regards,John

V20z Solaris 10 x86 ITU woes

1238 byte By moyes_boy at 2007-11-25 22:47:14
Hi all, we're trying to instal Solaris 10 x86 on a V20z. It has 2*73GB disks so we needed to instal the ITU to make them work properly.The server shipped with a Solaris 9 ITU floppy so we downloaded the Solaris 10 ITU file using a Windows PC. After unsuccessful attempts to write the unzipped ...

On Sun fire v490 - Solaris 10 with Oracle 8.1.7.4 & Sybase 12.0

734 byte By at 2007-11-25 22:47:16
Hi,We are going to upgrade our server with this configuration - Sun Fire V4902 x 1.05 GHz UltraSPARC IV CPU 8096MB RAM2 x73GB local disk2x FC 2GB Sun/QLogic HBAsDAT72On one machine we will have Sun Solaris v10 with Oracle DB v8.1.7.4&Second one will be Sun Solaris v10 with Sybase DB ...

how to boot change boot device

433 byte By nsg at 2007-11-25 22:47:18
I have a V100 machine .which have solaris 9 due to power failure server had poweroff and when server is booting again which have some proble in bootmode server has boot from network and erorr given. i belive server has bootfrom network but i need system boot from hdd .I change the boot divice ...