I've fished out a couple of Ultras for a wee project - they've been left idle, disconnected and stored in a somewhat cold (but not damp) environment for about 12 months.They are:U60 dual 360mzh 1536mb RAMU30 300mhz 512mb RAMThey both hang on boot, after memory count, with 'frozen' prompts. ...

I read the post before & am geting close, but cannot ge all the way. I have a U2 E (2 processor 512 MB) , OpenBoot 3.11 Solais 2.9Bought a 18 GB IBM Ultra disk, added jumpers and installed.boot -rI can see the disk in format, but it does no know the specs. How can I find them ? No one ...

Can somebody help me to highlight the differences between the different flavours of solaris OS, say solaris 7,8,9,10. Some major differences for novice user.

can somebody help me to find out different series of sparc processors. The journey of sparc processors.RegardsAmit

Dear Sir / Madam, I have to install a ST336807LW hard-disk in a Sun Ultrasparc 5 workstation (that does not support LBA) wih Solaris 2.6. as operating system. The disk is recognised, but I cannot mount it because when I execute the "format" command I receive an error message and a ...

hi there,I'm still new with sun OS server.question1) can i install dual boot inside sun ultra 60. (solaris version 8 and suse 9.3)2) how to make cdrom 1st boot device. how to get BIOS setup.Thanks.

I have searched these forums and found similar issues. I have tried a lot of the suggestions that were in these forums but I am still not making any progress.Got an Ultra 5 OBP 3.25. The machine boots all the way up and seems ok it just keeps giving the message "IDPROM CONTENTS ...

Hi. First post. Like so many others, I wanted to try Sun systems, so I got an Ultra 10 off eBay. I didn't have a 13W3 connector or monitor, so I pulled the Creator 3D card, and installed Solaris 9, using the built-in ATI video. Now that my 13W3 to HD15 adaptor has come in, I'm trying to get ...

Hi there,I have a quick questions for the experts. My SB1K's Solaris 10 install is set with Kernel Cage eneabled... I was looking up on documents about this, and only found mention of DR Kernel Cage. Is it the same thing? If so, then why would I need that on a workstation with probably no ...

Friends,Just acquired an Ultra 80, and cannot get any video out...Has a 3rd party PCI (LRI 2634) video card in it (which I believe is 5v), with a standard-looking 'SVGA' connector.1. Does this thing output SVGA? Or is it SunVideo with a different connector?2. Does anyone know the voltages of ...

HI I am using Solaris 9 s9_58shwpl3 SPARC.How do I change the root password?Thanks

Hello everyone !!!I just got a Sun XVR-100 video card.Will it work in the Blade 1000? I know it works fine in Blade 1500, 2000 and 280R which is rackmountable version of the Blade 1000.Does anyone have this setup?Are there any special setup instructions?Also, i have a Sun internal SCSI DDS-3 ...

Hello allI wiould like to run a dual head on my Ultra60 with two fixed frequency monitors at 1280x1024x76. The first monitor works fine afer changing the resolution with "setenv" at the boot prompt. But I believe that I cannot get the dual head working because the second framebuffer ...

Hi all and sorry for my poor english!One week ago I bought a Sun Ultra 5 on Ebay.Yesterday it arrived but because of my monitor (it can handle 1024x768x75 and below resolution(s)) I can't see anything, so I spent yesterday evening searching informations in this forum. Today morning I built a ...

This is on a 3500 running Solaris 8 with Disksuite. We have an application that is pounding on one or two large files in a directory and people are complaining about slowness. That's OK, I know what to do, but my iostat -x stats look strange:<pre> ...

Hi allI just insert addonics USB card to my Ultra 60.It works perfect.Now I have 200GB WD2000JB hard driveHard drive geometry isCyl 16383, Heads 16, Sect 63.Did anybody exercise this before and could share geometry for format program ?Right now I I have 127 GB and I did use configdisk_type = ...

We have just acquired a sparcstation 4, but have not got a Sun monitor to use it with. We can't set it up because we can't see anything to set it up!!Does anyone know a keyboard shortcut to boot into safe mode so that we can get started with it? We are going in ever decreasing circles at the ...

I need to write a script that will copy files from one folder into another folder without overwriting any existing files. The main reason for this is the large number of files that need to be copied (50,000 + at times). I am running solaris 8 and 9 on 2500's and some x86 machines. ASAP if ...

HiCan anyone please help me.The person who was running this machine has left. I am trying to connect to a Sun Solaris 2.5 (Sun Sparc 5) via OSX.3.9.Could someone please tell me how to do it or point to a step by step process?I need to copy some stuff from it and our old method doesn't work any ...

I am trying to use hyperterminal to log into the serial ports.Any tricks or suggestions.Login is enabled, the ports work.Help! please.

I am reading the Memory page in the SUN Systems Handbook:<a href="http&#58;&#47;&#47;www.sunshack.org/data/sh/2.1/infoserver.ce ntral/data/syshbk/Devices/Memory/MEM_SunBlade_150.html" target="_blank"> http://www.sunshack.org/data/sh/2.1/infoserver.central/data/ ...

Hi,First of all excuse my poor english.I have a hudge problem with my sun.context:i get a sunblade few days ago (i'm new to sun's world) and it was used to work perfectly.I've installed a Solaris 10 on it to test it.But.. when i've decided to use ./installer on the 3rd CD-ROM of solaris 10 ...

I have a SPARC5 workstation on a Lucent 5E VCDX switch that the memory is failing. Any suggestions on where I can purchase? The bar codes on the memory are.501247178894323501247178894934501247102197796501247107015964If these numbers mean anything. ...

What kind of keyboard and mouse does an Ultra 10 take? Type 5? 6?

I have an old ultra-1 connected via serial line on tty-a; no keyboard. I can shutdown and power-ff via 'init 5'.But can I get the machine to power-on again via the tty-a port ?

Hello, Do you know of anybody that could help me out with my Sunfire 15K?

Hi all,I need some advice on what is a frustrating problem!I recently relocated my Ultra 60 but can't get it to boot up anymore. With the keyboard attached all i get on screen is the following:Can't open input device.Keyboard not present. Using ttya for input and output.The keyboard is ...

Hi,after hotplugging a SPARC CPU-5V onto a VME backplane, we couldn't boot from the SCSI disk anymore. Boot from SCSI CD-ROM didn't work either. At the OPB prompt, diag tests speak about DMA failure.ok boot cdrom -sBoot device: /iommu/sbus/<a href="mailto:espdma&#64;5" ...

Hi,Couldn't find any topic about this in the Handbook, or search, so this question is unique.:-)I recently purchased an Ultra 60 (always wanted to have one like that), and 'll have to replace the DVD drive.Seen from the front, the left side panel is opened quite easily.But the DVD drive is ...

Hi folks,i have a sun ultra 60 with a 450 Mhz CPU. Now I have got a 300 Mhz CPU.Can I now put the 300 Mhz CPU in the second slot or must it a 450 Mhz?What would happen, if I put the 300 Mhz CPU in the second slot?

I have a Sun Ultra 1 Creator which currently has Solaris 8. I am currently downloading Solaris 10 and planning to reinstall from scratch. The Ultra 1 is pretty old and I dont have the password. Is there anything extra I need to do to make sure the Ultra1 boots from the cd-rom?Has anyone had any ...

Well, I've had this Ultra5 for a little while, and have started to do some upgrading. It's a 270mhz, with 640 Mb of ram, DVD-ROM, PGX24 card on the PCI bus, and a Belkin FU5220 UBS card....Both PCI cards are in 33mhz slots. I'm running Solaris 10.My problems center around the USB and the ...

This thing is killing me! Sun Blade 150 1.25GB RAM / 2x 120GB HD, Solaris 10 While installing Tarantella on my system I got a /var file system full and the system crashed. Tried to boot -s and the system can't find boot device. Last time I was able to get access to the drive again but no ...

I have an Ultra2 trying to hook up to a switch ,will a jni fc64-1063 work with this or do I needthe x6757a ?

Hi all,I have a Sun Type 6 PS/2 keboard connected to my Ultra 5 running Solaris 8. The mouse is connected to the keyboard (Sun Mouse).One of the support guys was messing around in the lab with keyboards, monitors etc and now the mouse will not work.He disconnected the Monitor and keyboard from ...

Hi everyoneThey say when it doesn't rain, it pours. Well, in the middle of a development landscape refresh, one of my production application servers have suddenly gone bonkers.Up untill a day or two ago all was fine. Then suddenly the proc directory started growing out of control. Inside are ...

Hi all, sparc newbie here.I inherited this beast (specs below) and the first thing I want to do is replace the disks (they are really loud).I understand that I can go bigger than 9 gig. Is there a limit as to how big I can go? I've searched and I can't find that info anywhere.I would hate to ...

Hi guys,I've got an Ultra 10 that is functional and I can connect to it over the network. However I am trying to connect to Serial Port A and it's not happening.I've done the following:eeprom output-device=ttyaeeprom input-device=ttyaand I am using connectors 530-2889-03 on the Ultra 10 side ...

Hi !I wish to know performance differences between the two following configurations:a) Ultra 80 / 4 x 450 Mhz / 4 GB Ram / XVR-1000b) Blade 2000 / 2 x 1015 MHz / 4 GB Ram / XVR-1000Is the performance difference worth the upgrade from the Ultra 80 to the Blade 2000 ?Thanks a lot and have a nice ...

Hi,I have read some of the existing threads regarding loadkeys and such. My question, before I bug our IT dept. is what is the cleanest way to use a plain USB PC keyboard on a new Sun SPARC.I have a HHKB Pro kb and I don't need any special Sun keys. I am using a simple USB KVM between Sun and ...

I have a Sparc 20 that was being used as a license server. The SCSI controller on the system board does not recognise disk drives anymore. I am trying to persuade Engineering to re-license the software for another machine/hostid, but I know they are going to balk. My questions:1) Does anyone ...

Hi: I have a Sun Fire V440 box (2 CPU, 4G Ram, a 3510 disk storage). I login from other machines (Sun Blade 2500), the response of the shell is very slow. However, the shell opened on the Sun Fire V440 box is reasonable. I suspect the network problem and thus change the network cables but ...

Hi all,I got a problem with my Ultra 5 computer I was hoping someone would know something about.Originally I had a 270 MHz CPU which I changed with a 440 MHz CPU I purchased on Ebay. I installed the 440 MHz CPU and turned the computer on. However the banner during startup says I have a 333 MHz ...

Hi;I have an old sparcstation20 with 2 180MHz ross processors;I 'm trying to install a SunPC 133MHz card: I just finished to install SunPC4.2 sofware, sunPC4.2 patch, and I runned sunpc_install script (I did all that was specified on sun.docs): it seems to have worked well. But when I try to ...

How do I connect a monitor to a VME 5v cpu?I don't see any vga output on this board. Thanks.

Hello,I recently got 2 used Sun systems: an Ultra 2 Creator and a Storedge A1000. I have the boxes but no cables whatsoever. I also got an Apex Sun Trap, which hopefully will let me hook up the Sun boxes to my PC monitor and keyboard/mouse. I just ordered a 13W3 M/M cable which should connect ...

Hi there,for my Ulra60 (2x 360MHz) I tried to replace the original Toshiba XM-6201Bwith the Teac CD-R58S drive.With this drive, the machine won't boot from CD. SCSI-ID ist set to 6. Terminator is on the cable.Booting from disk and copying a full 700MB-CD to disk ist working fine.Both drives, ...

Hi there,my Ultra 30 does not connect to the ethernet-switch if the TP-patchcable (cat.5) is shorter than approx. 10 meters (30 ft).With a longer cable it works fine.I can reproduce this with two different switches, both dual-speedSome suggestions?73Peter ...

How does one go about changing screen resolution on an Ultra 10? The default is killing my eyes.

I received an Ultra 80 w/ 2 gigs Ram and 2 ea CPU's. from a friend. When system is turned on, it display banner, while initizing memory I type stop A. System responds with ok. I have run all the diagnostics and everything seems to be OK. As soon as I type boot, boot -s, or boot CDROM the ...