Hello, I have Sun-Fire 480R, Solaris 9 with last recommended patch set.I found the following in log:Jan 5 12:00:44 host scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /<a href="mailto:pci&#64;9" target="_blank">pci@9</a>,600000/SUNW,<a href="mailto:qlc&#64;2" ...

I have a sunfire v250 running solaris/linux and a type6 keyboard. I need to share a mouse+keyboard+monitor with a Dell PC and switch between applications. I'm currently using a "Raritan Switchman USB" but every time I need to reboot I have to unplug/replug my USB mouse on the back of ...

Hi,Ive got two V240 that acts strange from time to time.Yesterday evening they stalled, I connected to the consol and nothing happened. No OK-prompt or nothing, when pressing Enter to try to get some response the marker jumped down a line but nothing more happened.I then rebooted it and ...

Hello,I would have a sound card in a Sun E450 server.I want to use the server for audio streaming and need a soundcard as a capture device.So, has somebody any idea what is the (most inexpensive) way how to connect a sound device with tis Sun.The OS I want to use is Solaris 9 or FreeBSD 5 or 6 ...

Looking for some help deciphering the follow messages from our E250 that intermittently reboots by itself. Any help is greatly appreciated-> <Jan/13 06:21 am>> <Jan/13 06:21 am>SC Control: 0000.0000.0200.0000> <Jan/13 06:21 am>SC CP0 CFG: 0000.0000.0100.4000STS:> ...

Hi,I have to try install the firmware (Patch-ID# 106503-09, flasch-update-250-08) on my Enterprise 250. At end of the installation a error was coming. The problem, I doesn't have it.The result of this installation, the system doesn't boot and I have not the ok prompt. My connection to the ...

Greetings,On my E250, I have all six internal drive bays populated, and being used in RAID volumes. Slot 1 and 2 (c0t0d0 and c0t0d8) are mirrored in a RAID 1 volume.Slots3-5 (c0t0d9, c0t0d10, c0t0d11) are being used in a RAID5 volume. Slot 6 (c0t0d12) is being used as a hotspare (hsp001) for ...

Hi, I have installed SOLARIS on SUN Fire Server. I have some problems with electric current and when I have a cut off I must initiate SUN manually. I have modified the variables on eeprom:auto-boot-on-error?=trueerror-reset-recovery=syncauto-boot?=trueboot-command=bootbut without results. ...

HelloWe have a SUN Server connected to EMC Symetrix and the following are appearing in messages. The Server is patched to the latest Solaris 8, 117350-28 Jan 4 12:40:09 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]Requested Block: 14382976Error Block: 14382976Jan 6 17:35:15 107833 ...

HelloSome help required please, 280R keeps crashing, stays up for about 3 minutes. used psradm to disable proc 1 first and still crashed, then disabled/offlined proc0 and crashed again. Its been working Ok for 2 years. Diag switch set to TRUE and diags pass. Details below.There are panics for ...

Hello All,I inherited quite a few Sun servers after a company aquisition and I need to be able to intrepret the Sun serial numbers to figure out the date of manufacture if possible.I need to know if any of them still fall under the 3 year hardware warranty and for how much longer. I know I can ...

Hi there,I have replaced a disk that was fault in my 3310 array and issued all the metadb, metareplace commands to resync a new disk up and all seems fine.But, when i run "metadb -i", it returns the following......flagsfirst blkblock counta m p luo16 1034/dev/dsk/c1t2d0s7ap ...

Hi!Just got a sunfire v240. I just plugged in the server and immediately got the LED status undicator on orange (service required) before even starting the machine!I then started solaris and ran prtdiag -v and looked for errors. The only things I found was:ps1 P_PWR failedPS1 faultyCould it be ...

Hi,I will start by introducing myself first, I'm Timo, i'm 19 years old, I live in Holland, and I'm currently working at a Linux company.I currently have got a problem with my V120.When I boot up my server I get the following message:Sun Fire V120 (UltraSPARC-IIe 648MHz), No KeyboardOpenBoot ...

E450, 4x300 CPU's all identical, will boot with any one, any two or any three of the five CPU's I have (one extra) but won't boot with any four installed.When I do I get (transcribed from terminal - no ethernet) is sth like:CPU0 has assumed the role of boot CPUOnline: CPU0: Ultra-II (V2.0) ...

Where can I find the last OPB update for my Ultra 10. I'm currently running v.3.31 - I think I recall seeing v.3.35 at one point but I can't find it now.Thanks in advance!

Sirs,We can't "see" the A500 disks from the V880 with Solaris8. We use the same optic HBA and the same Array with a E-250 with Solaris8 and everything works just fine. Although at the SUN Handbook this particular HBA is not shown, we've seen (over the INTERNET) people using it. We ...

Hi!I would like to configue IPF. Im using a v240 with an Hyperterminal cabled in the special SERIAL MGT port (RJ-45) of the server. My question is: does the firewall apply also for the serial MGT port?Because Im not directly working on the server with keybord and monitor, Im worried about ...

Hello allDoes any one know off a sound card that is supported by Solaris on a E250. Or any way of getting sound off the E250?Thanks

Hi Guys, I need to find out whether Sun servers can run on DC power. Is it just a matter of either ordering the kit with DC power supplies or retro fitting existing installed kit? Can you tell me which models can and which cant run on DC powerThanks guys.

Dumb question candidate:What's a VRM? I'm trying to debug boot problems with an Ultra 80, so am looking for tips from any similar experiences...Rgds - Lou

We have a Sun Fire V240 system (with no CDROM drive), and need to install Solaris 9 into it using a jumpstart server. I connected Serial port to the system, it tries to boot Solaris 8 (installed by someone who used the machine earlier) and we get following messages from the serial port ...

Hi,I would like to know which is a high end server wheather it is E4500 or sunfire v 800, looking at the docs i felt both are almost equal,cos one use Ultrasparc 11 with 14 cpus's maximum and sunfire v 880 uses close to 8 cpus but it has ultrasparc 111.Please clarify

I need some help with one of our V880's. Any help would be greatly apprciated.If I try to boot off a cdrom I get Boot device: /<a href="mailto:pci&#64;8" target="_blank">pci@8</a>,700000/<a href="mailto:scsi&#64;1" target="_blank">scsi@1</a>/<a ...

Can anyone tell me if these errors are anything to be concerned with?Feb 3 15:32:48 ramiusdb002 sbus: [ID 303695 kern.notice] SBus1 CE Primary Error from PIO: AFSR 0x80800d80.00000000 AFAR 0x000001c6.00002400 Id 3Feb 3 15:32:48 ramiusdb002 sbus: [ID 666518 kern.notice]Syndrome ...

Hello, We have Sun Fire V20z with MegaRAID 320-2X Dual Ultra-320 SCSI installed and StorEdge 3310 JBOD attached.The problem is 1. When MegaRAID card is inside of system, network interfaces do not work. (link is up, but pings not run).2. Logical drive 0 (raid5 on disks of 3310) is not available ...

Hello !This morning, I boot my SFV240 server, and during boot test, i had the following message : "unable to access SC device" and the server was stopped. What is this message and SC device ?I have waited 5 minutes and when I restart the server : all was OK !Any explanation ?Many ...

Hello All,This is my first post here, i am looking at rationalising 10 or so smaller sun servers into 2 or 3 bigger ones.I know that pretty much all new servers come with Sol 10.For our purposes we want to retain Sol 8, i know what reaction this will provoke, but really we are working in a ...

Hi,I was wondering is it sufficient to switch the harddrives and SSC from v210 to a v240 server when I want to transfer my Solaris 8 installation to a biger chassis?If not then what di I need to make this happen with the most transparency on client side that uses the servers services? ...

I have an E4500 with an external A5100 attached. I have a question about the disk board. prtdiag shows following:Detached Boards===============prtdiag output ========= Slot StateTypeInfo - --3disableddiskDisk 0: Target: 10Disk 1: Target: 11Can someone help me diagnose diagnose the problem? I ...

hi,Can anyone let me know where to find some documentation on what lom/alom version i have on my sun box. I have Solaris 8 H/W 5/03 on Sun-Fire-V240. Can i use the latest version of ALOM with this?Thank you

Hi.I need your help. i have a E3500 with monitor. the question is if your disconect the console cable the server is down.i need the number patch for this bug.thanks.eduardo Posadas<a href="mailto:eduardo.posadas&#64;impactotec.com" ...

the system is:[zhxxpt-1:/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin 32] prtdiag -vSystem Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Fire 480R?50 MHz?096 ?br />========================= CPUs =============================================== E$CPUCPU Brd CPU MHzMBImpl...

What causes NFS Client to Hang NFS Mount Points ? Which it access from NFS Server Where as in other clients entries are stale

Hi everybody!I've got a SF 480 with RSC card installed on. The server is non-autobootable, the input and output devices are set to RSC. Oneday, the console was open thru RSC Ethernet, and the server got down due to power failure.After powering, the server doesn't up (It seems the server are ...

I have 4 V210's in a Sun rack and two of them have developeda bad power supply. Both have the same error in "prtdiag -v"which has says:============================ Environmental Status ============================Fan Speeds:Location Sensor Status SpeedF0 RS okay 10384 rpmF1 RS okay ...

- SF V210- fresh install Solaris 10 (01/06)- cluster 01/18/06- only bge0 primary interface- fresh install check point express (sol 10 vsn)- reboot- crash/dump/reboot/crash/dump/reboot...- unable to boot single user- Reinstalled (same)- installed addt't Sun PCI interface 100mbs- only hme0 ...

Hi,We've got a problem with a couple of old t1 105's.Basically.Connect serial up to the LOM, virtually no response, the LOM will accept a keystroke everynow and again, there is no pattern to it at all totally random.Unfortunately I need to get into some drives on this system and don't have ...

Is There any differences between501-5699 versus540-4794 FC-AL Backplane ?all of my netra 20's have the 501-5699 and sun handbook says it should be 540-4794

Please excuse my ignorance but...how do I find out which particlar H/W version of solaris 8 is running on our V250?To upgrade our ALOM version to 1.5 it requires Solaris 8 HW 07/03...Many thanks

helloafter removing, powering up, powering doen and re-adding the RSC cable on an E250, the RSC isn't working anymore.when i run "test /rsc" on eeprom, i get timeouts...i am sure the cable ist correctly pulgged in on both sidesthanks in advance

I have e4500 attached via fiber channel to an A5100. A5100 works fine under Solaris 10. However, when I use Linux (aurora 2.0 FC3) , it does not recognize the A5100. I will apprecaiate if someone can help. Thanks.Syslog shows following:socal.c: SOC+ driver v1.1 9/Feb/99 Jakub Jelinek (<a ...

HelloSome help required from the more experienced, SUN E4500 crashed withFeb 21 08:43:35 SPARC-II: [ID 181834 kern.warning] WARNING: [AFT1] Uncorrectable Memory Error on CPU9 Data access at TL=0, errID 0x0008a8b7.32d8252dFeb 21 08:43:35AFSR 0x00000000.80200000<PRIV,UE> ...

I have a problem that i cant seem to fix. I recently accquired an e450, which im planning on replacing my U2 with. The problem is i have a set of 3, 9gig scsi disks for it that use to be in a RAID5 configuration on the machine. i have an 18gig drive that i have installed the OS on (gentoo) but ...

Hello we installed a PCI card in slot 2 of the V890 and it cant be seen, the card is SG-XPCI1FC-QF2 which is a 2G PCI FC Single channel adapter.The 66mhz slots are taken up by the fibre cards controlling the internal disks, slots 7 and 8It cannot be seen at the OK prompt and then obviously a ...

I cannot seem to find the answer to this so I hope you all can help.I have a Netra that I dug out of storage and loaded Solaris 10.1 on. Everything seems to work great but when I disconnect my connection to the LOM port the whole machine seems to die. When I connect back in all I see is the OBP ...

SCSI interface on EX000 I/O board 401-4266: is it FastSCSI, UltraSCSI, other?I am refering to the onboard SCSI interface not an installed SBus card.I know that it is a 68 pin SCSI but I cannot find any other details.Where can I find details such as this within the Sun site for future ...

I've got a Enterprise 220R from a used-servers reserller. I've hooked up the null modem cable to my laptop and also attached the keyboard to the 220R. But I am keep receiving the following messages upon boot up. (I have also attached an ethernet cable to the port too)>>screen not ...

I've got a T1 100 server. But being the power supply was DC and no adapter presence I couldn't test it since it's initial purchased. I ordered a new AC power supply and installed it. Now the machine is powered up. But I'm having problems accessing the console. I've put the cisco rollover ...

Hello!Just received a donation of a E10K and have no idea where to start from (have mainly worked on HP hardware). The donor has put together the machine and just turned it on to make sure the lights come on. Don't know if we have all the parts, but I assume that we do.Have received a Ultra 10 ...