Saved this old server from the waste-bin. I connected the LOM-A port via straight UTP cable to Serial port of PC, powered on the machine and get its POST messages and startup attempts on the screen of the PC (using either HyperTerminal or TeleTerm).However, can't type any character : nothing ...

Hi,Where can we find the performance comparision between v210 and v440? Any peice of information will do. Atleast a refrence would be great.Contacting SUN in india is easy. But, they dont respond with anything concrete before wasting atleast a week. Hence this posting.Thanks ...

Hey guys, i've got a SUN E3500 server i'm trying to boot up and it just isn't cooperating! I've got 2 CPU boards with a total of 4 400MHZ/8MB Cache CPU's and 4GB of ram. I've also got the I/B and I/O board full of GBIC's. Hopefully this is enough background info. Anyway, when I boot the ...

Hello I am new to the SPARC environment. Our company had purchased one just recently. I came preloaded. I went through the initial setup. Then the system wouldn't boot all the way anymore. Here is the record of the hyperterminal that I get stuck at:Executing Power On Self Test0>0>@(#) ...

I have a machine with a Sun Blade 2500 mohterboard in it. When I boot the machine, I receive a warning: Warning: Failed to open device(/<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1e" target="_blank">pci@1e</a>,600000/<a href="mailto:isa&#64;7" ...

all -I have a netra t1120 server and am wondering what type of cable and serial port settings i need to have in order to console into the box. if you have information on the part number or where i can get a cable please let me know.thanks!

I have a older netra t1 with the diag lights on amber in the front.i did a prtdiag and it does not show any faults..<div class="pre"><pre>System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Netra T1 200 (UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz)System clock frequency: 100 MHzMemory size: 2048 ...

Just powered up my system from a building powerdown over the weekend and I'm seeing this every hour.->rmclomv: VOLTAGE_SENSOR @ MB.P1.V_CORE has exceeded high warning threshold.Never seen it before despite numerous power-bootings. I've seen responses to low threshold but not power ...

I have an E4500, Solaris 2.6 with two I/O boards, each with an hme.hme0 is active only.I wanted someone to use hme1 for private network (crossover cable to another server) but they report both I/O board hme ports have cables coming from them!The server is 350 miles away from me! So what I want ...

HiI need a new harddisk for an E4500 but the smallest size I can buy is a 36GByte disk. In the E4500's components list, the largest disks are 18GByte.Will the 36GByte disk work on this server?Thanks for help.Dominik

Hi,Ive just bought a second hand e420r server with no HDDs, Im trying to connect to the serial output to confirm that it works correctly until my new hard disks arrive from a seperate seller.Ive made up a 2-3 ,3-2, 7-7 9pin to 25pin cable and connected this to serial A 9600,n81, hardware ...

I have a customer who is telling me he cant install a V880 board he has into his live V880. The reason being when he tests it in his test V880 it comes up with the line:Reading temperature limits from FRUPROMs: CPU0/2 CPU1/3 MB I/O DBP0I have assured him this is normal,to which he tells me it ...

Hello all,I have v880 with 4 servers 8gb ram with 12 hard disks and a scsi card ,the problem is when i do init 0 the server go to the OK prompt and then panic i replaced the card and the problem still any one have an idea

I need to look at reliability and availability figures for the v890 range of servers. Can anyone point me to an official publicatioin that contains mtbf figures or something similar?Thanks,Simon

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get an e3500 setup. I've managed to stumble my way through several problems, but now I've ran into a brick wall. I'm new to sparc hardware and unix, and thats the main purpose of this server is to learn a bit about sparc hardware and unix. Anyhow, here is my ...

hello ...I would like to use two 73 gig harddisks on the 420R.Seagate or Fujitsu are fine, but does anyone have a model number which I should order?It seems that the Fujitsu MAT3073NC doesn't work in the 420R (then again, it could be my stupidity).cheers,b. ...

'prtdiag' does not show anymore CPU temperature in Sun Ultra 5_10's. Is there any other way to find out about it? Or there are no sensors for it at all?Thank you!

I've a problem when I upgrade memory on V240.If I install 2gb ram ( 2 dimms ) , the machine power off in 5 seconds.I changed the memory , but the result it's the same.The v240 have 1 cpu 1GHz e 512 Mb ram ( 2 dimms ).Can anyone help me?Thank you

I have a V240 that has two 73gb drives in slot 0 &1. Boots fine. Installed two 146gb drives in slots 2 & 3. Now when I boot the system I get "Warning:/<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1c" target="_blank">pci@1c</a>,60000/<a href="mailto:scsi&#64;2" ...

I have a v880 that is getting many corrected memory errors. Should I be concerned about this? Should I get the memory replaced? What are my options?

I have tipped into a 420r and during the reboot all that I see is the following: SunOS release 5.6 generic Copyright (c) 1983-1998, Sun Microsystems, Inc.Note: This server used to have a graphics card in it but was removedabout 6 months ago but the server has been running fine since then until ...

Hello Forum,I have one SUN Fire 2900 server with 4 SPARC CPU's The #psrinfo -v output showing as 8 CPU present in the system. but #prtdiag -v showing as 4 CPU. I understand these CPU's are dual cores, but is there is any way I can view the #psrinfo -v output as 4CPU's .I am using a ...

I have a v65x with one power supply. I am looking to add a second power supply and need to know if I can install it(hot-plug) while the system is up and running.? If this is possible will it be recognized by the system or do I need to set it up in the bios. I have read throught the users guide ...

Can someone give me a link to documentation which will help me analyze system panics ( preferably for a sunfire 280r ).

Dear All,I have a Sunfire 6800 System,From past last month i get the following error messages and i force system power off after power on.The system panics,When i see the /var/adm/messages,I find error for a particular uncorectable error ...Oct 28 09:21:45 cis unix: [ID 251936 ...

RE the SME2300BGA chip.I have some that have a 100-4734-05 on the chip (under the SME2300BGA) and some that have a 100-6746-02 on them. Are these interchangeable and do they have the same functionality?

HI,we are having sun fire 240 server,This Server get restart automatically, after that the amber light was glowwhen i tring to put the prtconf command the system going to hang.then i tried to prtdiag command, itshow below givens======== FRU Status =========-Fru Operational Status:-Location ...

If a Netra 240 has DC redundant power units in it, can those be swapped out for AC units, and what kind of product do I need to power the DC units if I keep them? Is there a sun part number somebody could give me?Thanks

Hi,we have 2 SunFire v440 in cluster with SunCluster 3.1. SC isn't used for remote consolle but only to monitor temperature, fan, etc. We use a KVM switch on both systems for consolle. After ~10 days of uptime there is an error in /var/adm/messages: rmclomv: .... WARNING: SC has stopped ...

Hi,1. Can anyone please update me on the comparison for the processors in the mentioned models?2. Would v240 2 CPU 8 GB RAM be of same performance as v440 2CPU 8 GB RAM?I mean does v440 only a box to hold two extra CPUs than that of v240?3. Can we assume the CPU for the higher server model ...

Hi All,This is my first experience with SUN and we just got a SUNFiRE v240 server for network management. Since i'm the NMS admin i have to get it up and running. Nothing fancy about the box, no keyboard or mouse and no monitor.I have consoled in through the serial port and can switch between ...

I couldnt see my messagge on the web, so this is my second time:After installing a new UPS my server doesnt comming up.No indications on the front panel. No fans running. Nothing at all. Just possible to see in both Power Supplies (rear side)and green color leds: - Load Status - AC-Present ...

Hi all,I've a problem on this e3500 server, I had several reboot without printing anything in messages.Now I found something, I think it's not cpu19 involved (score05 and syndrome not equal to 0x3), I suppose it's fault of 2 memory slot on board 7 or dimms. Nothing was evidencied by advanced ...

I am jumpstarting several Sunfire V240 with flash images.On one of these V240s, the install image is downloaded successfully to the server on c1t0d0.After the reboot the box hangs with a control D asking me to fsck the drive, it is looking for c0t0d0 not c1t0d0. I have looked at the vfstab file ...

HI PPL,got a E3500 that making my head spinn.First i didnt have output, then (after reading in this forum)i did a Hyperterm and wow i get output, alots of out Puts.My System are doing countinus Reboot due to severe error.Hier is 2xparts of my Logfile where i think the error ist.(Have attached ...

Hi,I was wondering if anyone can tell me whether there is a RAID controller available for V890 for its internal FC-AL hard disks. I've never seen a RAID controller for FC hard disks and my vendor claims that there is no RAID controller available for the V890. So many hard disk slots & no ...

E450 has 20 internal disks. Format sees 20 but prtdiag only sees 12. I can access all 20 no problem. Should I worry?

Hello,server self rebooted three days back and found this error msgs in the log.Could anyone please help me in finding the issue.Server - 420 R , running Solaris 8. Latest patches installed was on July 2005.$ uname -aSunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80Error ...

How do I know what patches are on my system?I short summary of the latest versions of all patches?

Hi I am facing aproblem that GUI in the E220R on which Solaris 6 5/98. I able to login using command line but when I give user name & paaswd in the GUI it doesn't allow me to login & it again comes back to GUI login With BIG HoPeSMin2

Hi v240 has panic and rebooted messages are given anyone can help Nov 23 08:13:59 cddsindd01 unix: [ID 836849 kern.notice]Nov 23 08:13:59 cddsindd01 ^Mpanic[cpu0]/thread=303382acd60:Nov 23 08:13:59 cddsindd01 unix: [ID 968154 kern.notice] vmem_hash_delete(30000006000, ...

Cn I put Three CPUs in the V440 from the present Two ? Or do i have to upgrade to Four CPUs ?Thanks

For reasons that need not be explained (mainly for the sake of my loosely-held sanity) I have a pair of V890s which came pre-installed with Solaris 10. Lovely. Smashing. Except - we needed them to have Solaris 9 on them.That has been achieved, using release 9/04 of the Solaris 9 install ...

Probe-scsi-all see disks but boot -r fail to add disksformat does not show the disks

Hello all,I've got an E4500 with 2 CPU cards containing 4x 250MHz chips. I recently got 2 more CPU boards with 4x 450MHz CPUs. Can I safely insert these boards into the chassis and run 8 CPUs mixed speeds? If not, can I pull the 250s off and just run the boards as RAM boards?Thanks! ...

One of our sun servers crashed sometime last night. On the screen it reads:WARNING: uncorrectable error detected by pci0 (safari id 00000000.00000008) during DVMA read transactionWARNING: uncorrectable error detected by pci0 (safari id 00000000.00000008) during DVMA read transactionWARNING: ...

Why the server E450 turn-off the monitor when nobody is using the machine ?Every time this happen, I dont get logon on the server by console.How I do to disable this function ?thanks,Vincia

I am new to Sun server and don't know if 5 minutes is too long for V240 to power up. Anybody has idea if that is normal? My system:OpenBoot: 4.16.4Memory: 2048MPCI cards Installed:SUN PCI XVI-100 graphic card NI GPIB PCI card SUN PCI II card (with Celeron 733Mhz)The first 4 minutes I can not ...

Hi,We would like to know whether V890 FCAL HDD supports hardware raid. If there is no internal raid for the HDD's which card needs to be installed so that the server supports raid 5 for FCAL disks.

Hi Guys,I've successfully mirrored 4 slices from the original diskto the second one in our v240, the raid as such works,and is consistent. I then did the following:<div class="pre"><pre>installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0init 0devalias ...