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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...