And another question:I have set-up hyperterm to use vt100 for the ALOMserial line, and am accessing the network port froma Linux xterm. In both cases the display of files in vibecomes fubar, editing is impossible. E.g.:vi /etc/vfstab<div class="pre"><pre># vi /etc/vfstab ...

Hi everyone,Currently I have moved my E250 server back from my customer site. It was working last week and now when I tried to power up it does not reach the Open Boot prompt.I will start with the LED light located on the front panel. Only the green light which is the power light is on. ...

I know this subject has been tabooed by the moderator, but I think I remember Bill saying that it was ok to discuss theoretical aspects of Midrange server configuration...I am currently working on a database server solution and putting the figures together for V490/890 2 node clusters just ...

Does anyone know what type of graphics cards can be installed in an E2900 server? I would like a console other than serial. Thanks!

Is there a chart available that includes all of the the kern.notice ID's? ( i.e. [ID 570001 auth.error] reboot after panic: pcisch-0: PCI bus 2 error(s) )

Hi Gurus,Need solid evidence to give my boss, for purchasing a 490-2CPU, in place of a 440-4CPU (same RAM).The requirement is:1. Database migration from private to Sybase ASA 8.2. Generation of database from 121MB XMLs3. Testing performance on hifi databasesm-lennon, stumoor your inputs are ...

Hi All,I am beginner in solaris. Today I was trying to find out which hardware path ( e.g. c4t20d20, c4t20d22..) did my server filesystem (e.g. /backup, /extra_storage) belong to.And beside this, I was also wondering what is the different in mountall and mount -a command.Any one kindly ...

I was able to find ALOM 1.5 on sunsolve, however I need 1.0 for testing purposes, can someone post the file on the board? I can't find it anywhere.Thanks!!

Hi all: (my first post)Does anyone know if it possible to query the jumper settings on a SUN SPARC box. I need to know the current state of jumper J3001 on a 420R without opening the hood.Thanks in advance!Luis

I have a running server (420R) with a D1000 array, with a huge active data base attached. This server can not go down. I have another 420R and D1000 that I want to make identical to it. what is the best way to ensure that server 2 is the same.ThanksScotty

I have 2 new computers and they don't have com ports only lptand usb . what soft can i use for TIP connection . Or I need to buyone more with com port. Please , give me advice .I dont have video.I tryed different monitors with coneckor.any effect.

Hi,Can anybody let me know the comparision details in terms of perfomance between Sun E450 server (4 X 400 MHz 4 GB Mem 4X18.2 GB) and Sunfire V440 server (2 X1.5 GHz) Ultra SPARC IV Processors. Based on this comparision i need to see whether i need to buy more E450 servers or less V440 servers ...

Hi,Another question: how do I let the OS know aboutthe newly added (after the initial install of Solaris)tape drive? It shows me two (why that, btw, there's only one?) in ALOM<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td ...

I have 4 72GB drives in my V440. From what I understand I can only mirror 1 partition. But can I somehow first combine the first 2 drives to make it look like 1 drive and then mirror that to the other 2 drives? Thanks

What hardware houses the PCI Config Spaces?

I have a Sun SFv480 with dual internal 36G disks.We need to add about 4ea 146G disk drives to it.Does Sun offer any JBOD array, that can be connect easily to the SFv480? or maybe with a SCSI controller?We have a bunch of 146G disks on hand :-)TksJ.

Hi all,I'm having a problem using the asr-disable command from the OK prompt, whenever I do asr-disable (device path) , I get "invalid keyword". Doing .asr does not provide me with any list of devices I can disable. Any help would be appreciated.I'm running OBP 4.17.1 and ALOM ...

I installed X1065A on my Sun E4500 server, which support HVD SCSI and connect RSM 219 to it. However, the server can not find any disk. Probe-scsi only show CD-Rom. Fowlling document of RSM219, it need HVD SCSI Adapter. Any suggestion for that?Thanks.

We have a V880 with 8x1.2GHz CPU's we just purchased.And we are having some CPU problems.On arrival CPU's 7 & 8 failed due to timeouts. We received a new RMA from Sun for a 2x1.2GHx mem/board.Last night we had the same problem occur:Complained about cpu3 and ...

Greetings,We're working up a backup system, and from experience it looks like a well-configured V240 will be sufficient. A tape library with two fibre channel LTO3 tape drives will be involved, and said backup server will be backing up both SAN-attached (SAM-QFS) local filesystems and remote ...

Can anyone help me out with configuring the 1000BASE-SX dual SC fiber on a V880?Currently using a 10/100 card, which is hme0, but I have no idea how to bring up the gigabit port or even what device name it uses (ce, ge, eri, etc...)

I am trying to install an ATI 7000 PCI video card in a Sun 420R running Solaris 10. I read some instructions from <a href=" http://www.tools.de/solaris/ati" target="_blank"> http://www.tools.de/solaris/ati</a> regarding installing the drivers. However, this seems to be for x86 ...

As Title.When I use OK modecd /<a href="mailto:pci&#64;1c" target="_blank">pci@1c</a>,600000Nothing on the treeIs Mainboard or OBP error?

Please help...I have a Sun e250 with 2x 300mhz processors in it with a serial console. All is fine with this setup. I have two 400mhz processors to put into this server, but when I power this server on with the two 400 mhz processors installed, I just get a bunch of garbled text as below... The ...

Hi,have got a sun blade 1000.the problem is that there's no video output at all ! The system does power up ( that's you hear the fan, cpu, and the LED light shows ).could the problem be with the grahic card ? thanks in adavnce

Hi AllI'm trying to install Solaris 8 on a Sun Fire V480. The only problem I have is that I cannot connet to the internet. The problem is also that there are many network interfaces at the back:fcip0ce0, ce1qfe0, qfe1, gfe2, qfe3For all of them solaris (installation cd) comes with the message ...

We have some servers, let us call them V210s and V240s. All have 2GB of memory and 2 CPUs. What we would like to know is how that memory is made up - preferablyn by not having to open up the box and looking.I am guessing from the output of prtdiag and prtfru (see below) that what we have is ...

I am trying to load Solaris 10 on an E250. All was going fine... I did a "boot cdrom" from the ok prompt and started the install. I selected to do the full install. When the installation prompted me for the second disk, it would not accept any of the disks that I have as the second ...

I know SUN offically supports up to 36 GB disks for e220r server, but I heared that people have used ST373405LC without problem. wondering if any body have such experience? if ST373405LC works, does ST373307LC (U320) also work? Thanks.

Hi,I attempted to update the ALOM on my SunFire V250 (Solaris 9 with latest patch bundle as of August), but the first step failed (the boot image file [alombootfw] download). The download completed, but the verification failed. I was updating from v1.4 (if I remember correctly) to ...

Hi there JALAL, Does anyone know what this means, I got it from our system messages file this morning server is SunFire v210: Dec 26 14:30:25 Radius rmclomv: PSU @ PS0 has FAULTED.SC Alert: PSU @ PS0 has FAULTED. Continuous lines of this same error. Regards, Jalal ANNACHATSystem engineer ...

Hi, This may seem like a stupid question but how do you open the front doors on a SUNFIRE 280R. The instructions say "Unlock the front doors and swing them open by turning the keyswitch to the Power-On/Power-Off position." I have tried this and cant open the doors (ive tried all 4 ...

Hi everyone, Currently I just got hold of a Sun E420R server from a customer. The machine was able to boot but when I re-install the OS to a newer version Solaris 9 it start to give me problem. The machine is have the following error messages.. Please assist as at a lost now.... The following ...

"prtdiag -v" on our Netra 240 servers shows a great bunch of detail, including environmental temps and fan speeds (which is what we want to monitor). However, running "prtdiag -v" on our Netra 1125 servers does not have nearly as much output, and does not include the temps ...

Immediatly after the probing of all the NIC cards I get:message overflow on /dev/log minor #6 -- is syslogd(1M) running?message overflow on /dev/log minor #6 -- is syslogd(1M) running?message overflow on /dev/log minor #6 -- is syslogd(1M) running?message overflow on /dev/log minor #6 -- is ...

Hi,I am planning to replace the existing Sun Enterprise E4500/E5500 (6 CPU x 400 Mhz) server with Sun V490 Server (2 * 1.5GHz UltraSPARC IV+ processors with 32MB cache each, 8GB memory server )as part of platform upgradation. As of now there is no performance problem with E4500. Can anybody ...

HelloI have two E5500's which we would like to upgrade. Upgrade is add two CPU/MEM boards with two new procs. on each to both Servers. The hardware I have for upgrade with REV's is as follows.2 x CPU boards501-4312rev 502 x CPU boards501-4312 rev 523 x procs 501-5838rev 543 x procs501-6009 ...

Dec 19 02:47:22 SF15kAFP SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+: [ID 768469 kern.info] NOTICE: [AFT0] Corrected system bus (CE) Event detected by CPU64 at TL=0, errID 0x00004b7f.5c4bfbaaDec 19 02:47:22 SF15kAFPAFSR 0x00000002<CE>.00000032 AFAR 0x000000c0.c3e7a590Dec 19 02:47:22 ...

Hi Freinds,We have a V880 Server,Off late i have installed the latest kernel patch available from the Site for Solaris 9 which is 112233-12..Thereafter i am continuosly facing the below mentioned errors..Jan 3 16:11:30 kaptt krtld: [ID 819705 kern.notice] ...

this is how far the boot process gets before it hangs, only have serail conection into server any sugestions would greatly helpThe system is coming up. Please wait.Jan 3 09:16:29 su: 'su sys' succeeded for root on /dev/consolestarting rpc services: rpcbindkeyserv: failed to generate host's ...

HelloWe have a Netra T, AC200 that displays the following and we cannot get to OK prompt. My colleague informs me that all memory has been replaced but still the error persists.ERROR MESSAGE: MEM_MALLOC: NO MEMORY BIG ENOUGH AVAILIABLE ABOVE MESSAGE DISPLAYED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.Any ideas on ...

Hi all,I am new to this forum. I have one simple question. I have 8 SUN servers connected to a Black Box(Serial switch). And the black box connected to a single dump terminal. I can control all 8 servers with one terminal. Unfortunately, the black box got some problem needed to be reset.Is ...

Hi Forks,I have E450(2xCPU 400MHz, OBP 3.14) running well for many years, but a few days ago, the system has issues WANRING "CPU fans set to MAX, CPU temp is 79" and then it's shutdowned unexpectedly when CPU temp (Warning under OS) reached to 80C.However, room temp is around 20C and ...

Hi everyone,I have a similar problem on a Sun Enterprise E450 server:I get the following message:Warning: CPU Fan Number 1 FailedFan Failure , system shutdwon.The server boot,, and I get just the upper message, and just after it shutdowns.What shoud I do exactly, as I'm a new comer with the ...

Exactly what does the 'reboot after panic' string mean in /var/adm/messages?I assume it is recorded after a panic, but what does it respond off of?( i.e. modified system file? )

Hi everyone, I'm new to Sun systems and i'm trying to setup a Sun Fire v240 server. I'm trying to connect to the server using windows hyper terminal, and the connexion cable supplied by Sun (RJ45 + DB9 adapter). When i connect the server to the power supply i get some messages (see attached ...

Hi everyone,I've got a E450 server running for a couple of years,and after a fan CPU failure, I had the following error on the boot sequence:"Read from PCF8574 failed addr=7""write from PCF8574 failed addr=7"Any clues about this error?What corresponds the PCF8574? Thanks in ...

One of my Ultra-1's stopped running recently. It was getting I/O errors when running commands from time to time before it died and I had to reboot it to fix that. Now, when I power cycle it, it gets to the OPB graphic and lists the installed memory but that's about it. Any ideas?Thanks in ...

Does Solaris 1 1/06 support UltraSPARC IV+ processors? Or do I need to use Solaris 10 3/05 HW1?Thanks

The system is failing to boot with the following message. and then it is hanging there.I tried removing the vfstab entries for mirror and replacing it with the device directly and also removed the entry in /etc/system. It is still failing to boot.Any suggestion?{1} ok boot disk0 -sBoot device: ...