Anyone net booted a T1000/2000 yet? Do these have open boot? Will they boot from a "conventional" rpc.bootparamd Jumpstart server?I ask because we ordered some X4100s and we are returning them because the ILOM SP is so buggy and the PXE boot process is so poorly documented, and we ...

Hi Folks,I'm new to the SUN realm, so please excuse my ignorance if its obvious.I have the following Confg:Ultra 5 Sparc IIi 270MhzOBP 3.31( I believe its the latest)256MbSolaris 8 (not sure if the latest patch has been installed)Pri HD WD 30Gb. <- working and fine* Sec HD - ST3802110A ...

I have an Ultra Enterprise 450 2x300Mhz. I want to install another 8Gig or 18Gig Scsi hard disk to the current configuration, but I dont want to re-install solaris, without giving any damage to the system.How can i do this without losing any data in the current config.Regards. ...

Have a problem with ultra 1 keyboard (Type 5c). Can I use other type of key boards with ultra 1, for example Type 6?

Does SunBlade's 150 IDE controller supports 48bit LBA?Thanks.

I just purchased a Sun Ultra 60 Creator 3D Workstation from eBay to begin learning about Sun & Solaris. I have so far been unable to get the machine to boot (there appears to have been file system corruption on the hard drive). I had intended to do a fresh load of Solaris 10 on it anyway, ...

Hi, All.I've been trying to get my U30 (Solaris 8) to talk to a "new" Fujitsu HDD MAG3182LC that I picked up. I get lots of bus resets, but no formatting. Suggestions? Am I asking too much of this older creature?TIA,Donald.

I have an ultra 10. It has a 9.1 gig ide drive; I switched it out for a 40 gig one but it the system only sees 5 gig when I go to install Solaris. Is there a trick I need to do to get it to see all 40 gb?

Ok please bear with me as I'm a total newbie when it comes to sun hardware and solaris.The ethernet adapter on my Ultra 10 doesn't show up in ifconfig -a and neither does it show up in the GUI tool. The only thing showing is the loopback lo0.How can I assign an IP to my ethernet adapter? Is ...

after about 1-2 weeks of using solaris 10 Ethernet stops working entirely. Even under knoppix the ethernet does not work, i run diagnostics and it indicates that the NIC is working. The only way to fix the problem seems tobe reinstalling Solaris 10 and Wiping the harddisk. I am using a Sun ...

I have installed a Sy,bios 22801 scsi card and a Seagate 72GB SCSI harddisk into a Sun Blade 100.in OBP, I type probe-scsi-all, it can recognize it the scsi harddisk out.But when I try to boot the harddisk it it seems it can't find the device.I define the harddisk as sddisk in the following ...

Running Gentoo Linux, kernel 2.6.15, bios version R01-B3 51, 3G RAM, Opteron 150, X.org 7.0, nvidia drivers 1.0.8178.When I try to use 3D in X, the system reboots immediately (no oopses, etc). That's happening with both the supplied Quadro FX 500 or a 3rd party Geforce FX 5900 card. This issue ...

I am looking to purchase just the case / chassis w/ power supply of an Ultra 40.Does anyone know how I would go about doing this?I have talked to sun spare parts and they couldn't help me. Any ideas?Thanks in advance.

Hello All,I have an Ultra-5_10 box. I had to order for an external storage box. The storage capacity that I am looking for is 2 * 72GB. I want to know what is the type of SCSI card the system will be having ? What is the option to find it. From dmesg output I could find the following message. ...

I have an Ultra-10 (UltraSPARC-IIi) 440MHz. Would I be able to upgrade it with this CPU and if so would the performance be much better? http://shopper.cnet.com/501_5149_ASSEMBLY_440MHZ_2MB_ULTRA_10/4014-3086_9-16013 03.html...or is the socket completely different?Thanks! ...

Hello,I'm using adapter to connect standard PC monitor to my Ultra 60.Until yesterday everything worked ok and then screen sudenly got blank.I don' t get video output on boot and after boot. I can only login from ssh and serial console.Monitor is ok (i tested i on other computer). I've also ...

I have an Ultra-80 with 4CPUs, 1GB RAM and an Elite graphics card. When I power the system up the keyboard lights flash once, then the caps lock gives four short flashes, three long flashes and then three short flashes again. There is no video output. There is no O/S but a single 38Gig drive.Am ...

The clock on my Ultra 2 does not keep accurate time - sometime no time at all - when powered down.What module do I need to replace? Where can I get one? ...relatively inexpensively...What happens to my host ID when I replace said module?Thx

I have a SunSparc4 needing to be repaired: randomly, reboots spontaneously and cannot make backups on the tape. Do you know someone, preferably in Portugal, who can do so? If not, do you know anyone having a Sun Sparc compatible with Solaris 1 to sell? You can e-mail me at

Does the power supply on the Ultra 40 use a standard ATX motherboard connector? (Among the three connectors)

Can the fan tray power connector connect to a standard ATX motherboard?

What kind of connector does the center plane / back plane (that the hard drives connect to) have for the motherboard?Thank you in advance.

Does anyone know if it is possible to upgrade the CDROM drive of the Ultra10 to a DVDROM drive? If yes, will a standard off the shelf DVDROM drive do or do I have to get the DVDROM drive from Sun? I want to upgrade to a DVDROM drive because I want to install Solaris 10 on it which I have on ...

I have a Sunblade 100 and for an age I've been using graphics input, but now need to use my serial port instead. I bought a straight thru DB9 to DB9 cable and connected it to my pc, and in eeprom I've set the input and output devices to ttya. I don't get any connection?Does anybody know what ...

I wanted to throw this out here before I go buy a new machine. The other day I rebooted my Ultra 10 and it never came back up. The machine will beep once, the keyboard led will blick once, and the fans (case & PS) are on. The screen is black and there is nothing on the console tty ...

Hi, I have recently purchased Ultra 40 Workstation w/ Type 7 Keyboard and Mouse.Since I do see that Windows XP x64 is certified os for Ultra 40 Workstation and Type 7 keyboard comes in both Unix and Windows style, I have not yet been able to use extra keys on Windows XP.Is there any driver that ...

I have a SUN Blade 1000 that all of a sudden will not power on. I tried messing with the side panel button to see if that was causing it but it still will not turn on. Any clue on what could be wrong?

Hi!I'm about to buy a Sun Blade 2000 on ebay. The machine comes without any operating system installed and it doesn't have a DVD or CD reader. I checked the SUN documentation and actually the DVD reader was an optional device for the Blade 2000.In that case, how can anyone reinstall Solaris ...

Can a 300GB drive be used in a V100... (Seagate drive ...non-sun)I have installed solaris 9 and the drive via form lists as a 120 GB drive.I had an 80 GB drive before this and it worked fine (non-sun)...Is the V100 in need of a EEPROM /OBP update?Thanks in ...

Hi,I bought a sparcclassic around 11 years ago and haven't used it for the past 8 years. I plugged it in and got:timeout waiting for arp/rarp packetlost carrier (transceiver cable problem?)..........It was a stand-alone machine when I used it last time. Any idea what this message is saying? I ...

heard that ultra 40 can support various 64 n 32 bit OS..(including fedora suse n varieties of Windows..) but is it a dual boot?if yes how is the performance with windows and Solaris 10..

Hi,I've got one of those Sun Opteron boxes on my desk (Sun JavaWorkstation W1100z). Actually, it's more of a foot stool now,because the BIOS is corrupted and the machine won't boot. Howdid I manage to corrupt the BIOS? Well, the BIOS was showing afan fault, even though the fan was running ...

If can, what additional hardware should I install, and how to configure it?By the way, can I use wireless mouse and keyboard for Ultra60?Thanks very much!

Hi All,I am new to this forum as well as new to SUN.I tried to boot a Sun Blade 100. The message that appears on the screen is Keyboard not found. use ttya Input and Output.I have only a normal MS Keyboard which cannot be connected to SUN. Do we need to have a special Keyboard. Whether we have ...

Hi all,I have aquired quite a collection of old sparcstations here, and I would like to fire them up and try and get them working again.As can be seen from the subject, I'm trying to get an output on an SGI monitor, which i though was not possible, but an SS4 shows up fine on it. Sadly, none ...

While I do enjoy using my Sun Ultra 40 Workstation, there is one thing that bothers me. And I am wondering if I can get a help from you guys.Before I describe what I am experiencing, I politely ask you not to tell me to go other place for using Windows O/S. :)Anyway, here's what happens:Ultra ...

Hello everybody!I have following question please:I am working on a Sun Blade 100 with Solaris 10. In this blade a SUNpci2 card exists. So, is it possible to use this card? I tried SUNWspci2 (2.3), but I got some errors. I tried to patch it, but it does not work. Or have I to downgrade on ...

Hi experts, I guess this is a tough one.On my Ultra20 with the Opteron 180, I got the following message before system shutdown:At the time I was running two instances of ROOT (root.cern.ch[\code]), so both cores were working.Any idea what is going on? Would dtrace be of any help here?I'm ...

Hi sun gurus,I have an Ultra 60 that started to act up. The problem started when I tried to mount a solaris 9 cd. It did not mount the cd. Then I rebooted and still had problems mounting the CD. Then I halted the system and at the OK prompt did the probe-scsi-all. It showed all the devices ...

I have Netra t1 105 machine and and need to plug a VGA card in it. Its a rackmount case and I dont know (fited in chase) i will be able to add a VGA card in it ot not. Any one have any idea about adding a VGA card which should Solaris 10 HCL compatible.

Hi,i have facing a paroblem with my ultra 20 Model 148 . I have 2 os in my system, it is solaris 10 & Rhel 4.0 respectively. But when i press power on switch the led light in not " on" but CPU become started ( not display of course). If again i shut down the system , & again on the ...

Hello all I would like to update the flash prom on my Ultra 450. But when I try I get half way through the process and than get this message."Erasing the top half of the Flash prom programing OBP into the top half of the Flash prom **ERROR: A Vpp range error was reported by the flash ...

We have recently migrated an application that used to run on a PC, to now run on a Sparc Workstation. This is a SunBlade 1500, running Solaris 8. The application is running in a dedicated console which has a fitted keyboard and trackerball that have PS/2 connectors and cannot be changed. We ...

Hi,I have a W1100z and would like to buy 2 Samsung SP250 IDE Drives.Will the BIOS detect them correctly and just use them ? Has someone used bigger IDE drives already ?Sould be easy, plug in new IDE Drives, install Solaris10 and go.Or am I wrong and did SUN code their Disks ?Thank youKaiMessage ...

We have an Ultra 60 running Solaris 8 but we need a LVD capable card. I've gotten my hands on an Adaptec 29160N but it doesn't show up in the "probe-scsi-all" output.I guess I'm asking if its compatable at all and if it is what do I have to do to make it work?Thanks for any ...

A couple of weeks ago I was building an ultra-5. During O/S install I discovered memory issues but managed to complete the install. I left the workstation on for a day or so and lost video image to the monitor (plugged into pci slot 1). I installed new memory today and the workstation boots ...

I have two ultra 10 workstations, one worked for a few days and then just stoped POSTing. I pulled all of the hardware and nothing happened differently. I looked up the Sun service manual. Had two LED's on my keyboard on: Caps Lock and Scroll Lock. According to the Sun Ultra 10 Manual ...

I have been programming for close to 25 years, but I am very naive with hardware. My home computer is a Sun Blade 100. I bought it right when it came out, so it still has a read-only CD-ROM drive.Discussion groups make it sound rather easy to replace that with a RW CD-ROM/DVD drive. But I ...

Hi All,Just built a Blade 2000 with a single 900MHz CPU. Installed the latest version of SOL 10 OK. Have a 1.4GHz co-processor (X2134A) installed and need to download the drivers. The download center has several versions. 3.2 and above for Red Hat Linux etc. 3.1 does not seem to have any Linux ...

Hi,Has anyone had any sucess installing a 146Gb FC drive in a Blade 2000?Thanks in advance,Paul