Hello, I'm working with Solaris 9 on a RAVE workstation. We have the XVR-100 graphics accelerator. What we'd like to do is have the second monitor mirror what's on the first monitor. Is this even possible with this graphics card? The documentation for the XVR-100 does not give me hope.. ...

In the document "Sun Gigaswift Ethernet Adapter Installation & User's Guide" there is a list of all the other models of Sun servers except 220R which can support the Gigaswift Ethernet VTP Adapter card. My colleague said that the 220R might support the card but due to it is ...

I just purchased a 2nd-hand Sparc5 (old dog, 110MHz, 128MB, 2GB HDD) without any peripherals and am now trying to access it via serial A ... not very successfully. minicom and hyperterm (yes, in my despair I've used the evil OS which is installed on the PC I got from work) both don't seem ...

New member, first post. We use the Sun Blade 1500 with Solaris 8 on Foxboro's I/A control system. SB is remote mounted in a cabinet about 50' from the console. We are having problems with the mouse and keyboard losing connection to the SB. USB extenders are being used that Foxboro provided. ...

We have a V240 SunFire server. I'm wanting to attach an external tape drive with a native capacity of 160 GB or greater. For under $1000, the Quantum DLT-V4 sounds like my best choice. However I need to know if this drive is supported under Solaris 8.0. Do I need to download drivers first? ...

I'm not a hardware or software person, but one of our guys who is is having trouble getting a DVD in a V120 running Solaris 9 to consistently recognize long file names on DVDs that were created on PCs running XP with various combinations Sony and Memorex DVD burners and Nero and Roxio ...

hi all i have installed debian 3.1 on sun netra t100 server. i want to install graphic driver on this server , but not able to do that. pls help

About 5 hours agi, I replaced a PSU in my T3 since the old one had batteries that were 2 years past their expiration date :-). However, on the replacement, id read u1pcu1output is all blank: T3-foo:/:<5>id read u1pcu1 Revision : Manufacture Week: Battery Install Week : Battery Life ...

I'm troubleshooting one of these drives to determine if it's worth fixing. I need the field service password (a series of numbers) to get to the service menu and run further tests.

I have a 10 month old Sun PN21MS monitor. It was in power save mode all weekend, and when I "woke up" the computer this morning, I only got a single bright vertical line on the display, instead of the normal image. Power cycling restored a normal image, but I'm wondering if this ...

Does Sun make one of these? (A Type 7 Japanese UNIX-Style Keyboard if you neglected to read the title =) ) Even plain US UNIX keyboards are hard to find nowadays... If they do make these, how do I order one? The email contact from the Sun Store told me they "do not have [any] in ...

Hi All I've this sun v480 with Solaris 8. Connected to it is a StorEdge A3500/3500FC. I think I only see one disk of this raid system, so can someone give me suggestion how to mount this think and/or where to look for information ? Thanks a lot in advance Luca ...

How can I tell if the unit I have has a barcode reader? is buyin a unit withOUT a barcode reader even an option. I'm new to this company, and none of the tapes use barcodes. With 30 tapes the changer is just a big manual tape storage unit. ...

Hello all, I see some errors during T3 boot that indicates a corrupt label. I have pasted the entire console output during boot below. One of the manuals says to use "boot -c" to clear the labels, but this does not work for me. "boot -c" just goes back to the T300-Ep> ...

Hi I got an autoloader backup which use the DLTtape IV (external backup drive) installed on the Sun server. I was wondering how to backup the root using 'ufsdump' (correct me if i'm wrong) command. My problem is just the '/dev/rmt/*' part. How am i suppose to know which tape it is ...

Hi, is it possible to take drives that were formatted and raided on one 3510 and use them on another 3510? Is there any more information I need to give to answer this question? Thank you in advance. P.S. sorry if I didn't do a search on the forum first, I truly need a fast response, I'll ...

HI All, I've connected two servers, each a different controller, to one LUN of a raid system. All the raid disks (except the spare) are put together inside 1 LUN. Now I think I remember that this is not a good idea. Can someone explain to me why this is bad (or not) ? Thanks in advance ...

Can someone help? My GDM5010PT blinks to a yellow tint after warming up for a few minutes. However, it will correct itself and stay stable unless I type or use the mouse. If I continously use the mouse or type, the monitor will intermitantely switch back and forth from yellow tint to perfect ...

Anyone know who build this one for Sun?

I am a newcomer to this forum and need your help. Please help me with my SunFire V100. It's without any graphic card and cannot open x windows utility for Oracle 8/9i installation. I need to have a good workaround solution for this problem. Much appreciate.

Someone please help, I unboxed a new V210 with Solaris 9 and no DVD or graphics card, which I am trying to install. Before I can install the graphics card drivers, I need to get the DVD drive recognized. Thanks, Bruce

Hi, I wnat to use the ILOM to access the console of our X4100 machines. All parts of the ILOM are working, but the redirection will not start. Only a message is displayed, "The remote console application requires Java 5.0." I have installed JAVA 5, the browser plugin is correct ...

Hi All I'd like to know if anyone has racked a T2000 in an HP 10000 series rack.... I know that as long as the racks comply to EIA 310 then all should be ok, but I'd like so be safe Thanks

Hi I got a problem with my Sun E450 server. Actually the root is filling up the space. After investigation was made, i realize that the /var/tmp seems to have a file that is so large. So, i moved the file to another location to free up the space in. Just wondering: 1. Is it normal that a ...

Hi All, I just had DLT8000 in hand and did normal installation. After doing booting with option -r , then I inserted one cartridge in to slot and tried to run comand mt -f /dev/rmt/1n status, the result showed that "the tape not loaded or drive offline".I tried to insert another ...

Hello All, We recently got a bunch of the Type 7 keyboards in, however they do not seem to work with USB KVM's. (KVM in question is a IOGear GCS1714 4port ). If we plug the keyboard in to it, we can not use the keyboard. It appears that because the keyboard has a USB hub in it, the KVM is ...

Gurus, I am facing a CDROM automount issues. This is on Sunfire 240R installed with Soalris 10. I can manually mount the CDROM using "mount" command. But Automount does not work. Tried with different CD's Also Tried stopping and starting volmgt but no luck. I cannot even boot ...

Hi I'm trying to backup the OS using ufsdump command. Command used: ufsdump 0fuv /dev/rmt/1 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 Error encountered: DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open 'Oracle:/dev/rmt/1'. Do you want to retry the open? ("YES" or "NO") Yes DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot ...

Hi, I have a Ultra 60 Elite 3D (DIN-8 connector), and the reference manual says that only can be used with type-5 keyboard. Does this means that I can use any type-5 keyboard? Will type-5c work? Can be used any other keyboard? Thanks a lot. ...

I installed Solaris 10 on Sun Xfire 4100 dual AMD opteron and all has been done correctely. I used JavaRconsole to install OS. But for instense when I want to type the ":" character in a term it's abscent from his place and I have the "<" or ">" character ...

Is is possible to turn on Legacy SATA support on Sun Fire X2100 Server?

On Sun Ultra 5 workstation, does the audio device process 8k bytes per second?

I have a friend who is looking to put a sound card in his sun v240. Does sun make a sound card or do he has to use third party such as SGI or other's ?

Hi guys, any one have had experience installing Windows 2003 on Sun Fire X4100? if yes how do i get it to detect on board H.D.Ds. I have got the drivers but it does not recognize USB floppy drive after when i press F6 at the bigining of Windows setup....... can any one help me out ? ...

Just wondering what options I should look at for attaching ~500GB of storage externally to my Sun v20z. Currently have a single U320 75GB Fujitsu drive in the v20z. Rather than expanding the internal storage I was preferring to look at something like a quad-array of 300GB SATA drives. I ...

Solaris 10 dont load a driver to the card.I install it on a Sun Blade 100 (400Mhz 512Mbyte) with a PCI busOBP 4.2.2 2001/04/26 15:00 Sun Blade 100POST 1.2.6 2000/08/30 21:20and after installing Solaris 10 there is no driver attached to the card.If I run prtconf -pv I get....pci9005, 250 (driver ...

Hi I have a disk pack with part code 599-2420-01 this is attached to a V480.I want to renew the service with Sun.But they are saying that this is not a standard item.From where can i find the actual name of this.please give me ore information about this part 599-2420-01

G'day, i really need help with my test SunRay network,I want to upgrade the firmware from 2.0 to 3.1, i think they are 2.0 right now!!I run ./utfwsync and it counts down from 60 but they the sunray restarts about 4 times and then comes back with the same firmware!!!Not sure what to do about ...

We have Sun Blade 2500 running Solaris 9 with an XVR-1200 graphics card in it. We need to be able to change the video resolution, but for some reason this system has lost the capability to do so. We've tried repeatedly invoking the "fbconfig -res" command to re-define it, but the system simply ...

Just wondered if there was any reason or fix for the problem. I've got a Ultra 80, with both an Elite(afb) and Xpert (ifb) card installed. These are connected to 2 identical Samsung 21" 214T monitors. The ifb card detects the monitor correctly and can therefore have the correct resolution set, ...

Hello. Is it possible to take the video card from a Sun system and install it in a PC? It has VGA hookups. Someone mentioned the BIOS on the video card being stamped with Sun information, so it wouldn't work. I know nothing about Sun stuff, but I wasn'y quite ready to take his word. ...

Hi there,I've been given the task to try and get SubVersion (CVS Server) installed on our Cobalt Qube 3 Pro.We connect to our Qube via Telnet and can deal with most situations, such as running preinstalled software such as Fetchmail etc.Since I do not know what is installed, guessing that it ...

Hello Everyone,I have HDS 9960 consolidated storage being used by hetrogenous servers through Mcdata Sperion 4500.I would like to introduce SUN Fire V440 in this enviornment.Please help me in choosing the RIGHT HBA for the same.Regards,Aarti

Hi.I am looking for information about RAM disks. How big they are, costs, performance etc. Where can i find such information. Is there somebody here, which have information about RAM disks (virtual disks).My problem is that i need big disks (70 - 80 GB) and need real fast access.Reg ...

My w2100z is having power-on issue, probably due to mal-funtioning USB/keyboard.Sometimes it stays at black window forever after power-on, when it does reach the bios screen, it reports keyboard error. The keyboard doesn't receive any power from the box (no light).Solaris crashes immediately ...

I recently purchased an X2100 to replace my two legacy workstations (Sunblade 100 and Netra X1.)It looks like the motherboard has a "full" PCE-E connector, but the right-angle adaptor that carries PCI-E from the mobopresents a smaller connector for your expansion use. Whatever that connector ...

Hello Geeks,I replaced the DLT 8000 drive in my L9 Autoloader due to a hardware issue and after that with my replaced drive backup takes very long time.(more than 6 times of regular backup).I issued the command devfsadm to reload the drivers,cleaned the drive and started the backup.Still it ...

In one datacenter we have a terminal from IBM that works without any problems on our Sun-servers, but we also we have a terminal from Wyse. This terminal has a slight problemen, because someone start playing with the settings. I tried to set the setting back as found for the serial console, but ...

I need to boot from a CD so i can repair my image of Windows XP that I normally run on my sunpci card..does anyone have any ideas as to how I do that? I can't figure it out for the life of me. Thanks

I have a contract-to-hire position available with a large financial services company in San Francisco for a senior web engineer with a strong systems/Sun hardware background. Unofficially, this is what they want (but bear in mind, it's a wish-list and they are not expecting everything!):*Sun ...