Hi,I've got a SPARCstation 20 (old I know) connected to my laptop via a serial null modem cable which works wonderfully. Only problem is that I enabled diag-switch? to true and reset the machine. It's now stuck in a loop Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet as it's set to network boot (it has ...

Hi,In a previous post we installed the latest Solaris 10 without problem on a Seagate 73Gb drive. Just down loaded and installed SunPCI III 3.2.2. We opened SunPCI to create a C: drive. Had to close SunPCI because we had to leave the office. Powered down the machine OK. When we returned and ...

I recently acquired a used ultra 10 on ebay. During post the caps lock blinks as expected, occasionally becomes solid on and the machine beebs. WIth the 3d creator card, after about 5-10 minutes the monitor kicks on but i get a blank screen (all black). If I use the vga port with the onboard it ...

Has anyone gotten dual-display to work with a Sun Ultra 40 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.0? The dual-display works when booting and shutting down but doesn't work in normal operation when the machine is booted. I've tried both the nvidia driver that comes on the disc with the machine and ...

Hello Forum,now that the air-conditioning season started and the power failures are upon us: How do people hook up their workstations to UPS? Can Solaris be told to hibernate/shut down by some signal sent to a USB port connected to the UPS?Cheers, Peter.

My Sun rep was able to get hold of the right people engineers at Sun to find out if I could add Serial Attached SCSI drives to an Ultra 40, use an LSI 8408E controller and STILL use the backplane. The answer is yes! The connectors are SAS/SATA compatible. All that has to be done is make sure ...

I have an Ultra 60 that won't boot. It won't even start POST. I connected a PC to the serial port and confirmed that the terminal emulation works by connecting it to another Ultra 60 that works fine. The POST information displayed properly.Unfortunately, the Ultra 60 that doesn't work ...

Hi,considering purchasing a few new workstations and in particular Ultra 45's. Currently have a Solaris 8 environment and need to know whether I can run Solaris 8 on these boxes or not.Everywhere I've looked so far only mentions Solaris 10 1/06 which comes preinstalled, but I can I reinstall ...

Hello everybody,I was wondering if anyone has had experience with the graphics card xvr-2500 (in an Ultra 45). I connected a Sun 19" LCD to each of its DVI connectors and wanted to use one wide virtual screen. The only option I found was using:fbconfig -doublewide enableI did activate the ...

Sun Blade 2000 usage/observationsSo, my trusty SB 100 (which I moded with a SB 150 cpu, 2gb ram, fast ide drives) was no longer cutting it for what I needed to do (some tasks were cpu bound, some where io bound). I did not have the spare funds to buy a new Sun box, but it turns out that used SB ...

Hi all!I recently inherited a Sun Ultra 2 Workstation with a SEAGATE ST34371W SUN4.2G7462 Hard Drive. I'm attempting to install Gentoo Linux on it, however, when I boot from CD, I get the following error message when Gentoo attempts to detect my drive:scsi0 : Sparc ESP366-HME Vendor: ...

Hi,I need to put some SunBlades 100/150 which are curently placed on tables in a SUN rack 900.does anybody know what is the exact order number from SUN for the necessary mounting kit?Many thanks,Radu

Hello,I'm working on U10 and since few weeks I can't use my workstation cause Xsun process consuming 100% of CPU. I installed 109154-21 patch, but it didn't change anything.Could you please help me?Thanks

Greetings,I have the following hardware:Sun Blade 1000 w 1 900 MHz UltraSPARC III cu, 2GB RAM, Elite3D-m3 Series 2 Accelerator (Part# 501-5574)A Sony built Sun 21" Monitor with the following Specs (Sorry, I can't find its model number)CRT Size 21in.CRT Size, Viewable 20in.CRT Type Apeture ...

Hi,I would like to upgrade my Ultra 5 with a PCI graphic card but I don't know how to make the PCI-card the primary card.Any hints?thxMarc

Our Sun Blade workstations have been experiencing network interruptions, resulting in unavailable internet service except intranet. PCs on the same network appear ok somehow. The interrupt lasts a few minutes occasionally. When it occurs, the on-campus workstation also becomes unaccessible from ...

Hi all,I'm the recent recipient of the Ultra 40, and there seems to be an issue with the screen resolution or refresh rate. Whenever I goto boot the machine, it boots and post fine however when it comes time to login, the screen attempts to change its resolution, but fails and stays black. ...

I have document 802-3233-27 which tells me how to update the Firmware on my newly acquired Ultra-2 Enterprise. I need to get from OBP 3.7 to 3.11.2 or later to run Solaris 10 on the machine.However, the problem is this refers to a bootable CD; which I can't find anywhere, and the machine has ...

Hi!I bought a used Blade 1000: case, processor, disks separately.At boot the machine seems to access the disks, but then the video doesn't show up.I tried1)replacing the graphics card, but nothing happens2)connecting the ethernet, but how could use DHCP I wonder.So, I guess the only thing to ...

Is there an upper limit that Solaris 5 will see on a hard drive? My question comes from the fact that I installed a new unformatted 20gb seagate drive in an ultra 5 running solaris 5. When I enter format, the output shows only 8gb (7.7 something minus the buffer). Is there a patch I can install ...

I have a Sun W2100z workstation, and I'm currently running Solaris 10 01/06 on it, but even when I had Red Hat Linux 4 AS on it, it seemed that the front two USB ports didn't work, while the two ports on the back of the system work fine. I first experienced problems when I was trying to use a ...

Hey,I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the maximum CPU for the W1100Z is. I have an older W1100Z with the original Opteron 144 installed and was looking to boost the performance a bit.Since dual-core processors are probably out - what is the maximum supported by the workstation.Thanks ...

I am really new to the solaris. The sun blade 100 workstation was working yesterday. But when i started it today, i got exec (/sbin /init ) failed with errno 13. can't start init. program terminated. It may because I didn't turn it off properly. What should I do to fix it? Need to finish the ...

In short, is anyone able to get DVD Playback to work smoothly in full screen (and high resolution) using one of these cards?More detail: I have a SB 2000, with 2gb ram, plenty of disk and swap. I also have to Expert3D-Lite cards (each 48mb ram, I think) set up with Xinerama (desktop acrooss ...

Looking for information for running multiple frame buffersSB2500XVR-1200XVR-600Solaris 9I'm new to setting up graphics in Solaris, so if someone can walk me through the setup.XVR-1200 in PCI slot 6, XVR-600 in PCI slot 4. I've "enabled doublewide" in fbconfig.fbconfig -list shows ...

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).The keyboard used to work but the Ultra 5 went to storage for a while and the keyboard does not work anymore. The mouse works fine.Is this a hardware issue or a ...

Hello AllI have got a Ultra 450. When booting into Solaris I get some error message.warning: pci@1f,2000/scsi@1SCSI bus DATA IN phase parity errorwarning: pci@1f,2000/scsi@1Target 1 reducing sync. transfer ratewarning: pci@1f,2000/scsi@1SCSI bus DATA IN phase parity errorwarning: ...

Hi everybody,I have buyed a Sun Ultra 5 used with Solaris 8 pre-installed.When I turn-on power the system starts but I havent openboot prompt. I want install Solaris 10. How I can start openboot's prompt and run the command "boot cdrom"?

Hi,I have an old 20 lying around in my spare room and im thinking off selling it.Here is the spec...How much should I expect to get for this?Quad Ross HyperSPARC (4x75Mhz)256MB RAM.2X10GB SCSI's (One is a Seagate Cheetah, the other an IBM).Its in very good condition ...

Is it possible to get a converter?

Dear sir, I have got 20 nos of Sun Ultra 20 Workstations, with AMD opteron 64 bit processors.i have installed Windows XP 64 bit o/s where in all the systems are facing the identical problems. it is that the system are working very slow. The users are using Autocad like Designing Software and ...

SUN Blade 100 (UltraSPARC-IIe)Memory size: 768MBSolaris 10 6/06Latest OPB 4.17.1 2005/04/11 Hi, I have a quick question, does anybody have actually changed the IDE drives for scsi drives and be able to 揵oot?from it?I tried 2 different SCSI cards, having hard drives attached to it works fine as ...

Hi Forum,my Ultra 20 came with a 250 GB disk, however, the disk layout which was installed by Sun is this:/dev/dsk/c1d0s0 13G10G3.3G76%/ /devices0K0K0K0%/devicesctfs 0K0K0K0%/system/contractproc ...

I'm newbie in sun plattaform and I 've tried to add a new drive to make a image of actual disk (9.1Gb). I read old topics about this issue (How can I use my 160G disk, and others) and I wasn't able to use my Western Digital 80Gb (WDC WD800BB).When I use format command, it shows:0 - c0t0d0 ...

Current memory is PC 2100. I see that the specfications on sun.com have it listed as DDR333 which is PC2700.What modules wil work aside from PC2100

We have miltiple SPARCStation 5's that we'd like to stand up on end to tower config.Will this be an issue with these older systems?What problems would we experence if we did so.Thanks in advance.

Hi,I have a customer who requires a Sun desktop with the ability to attach to Sun's SDLT600 tap drive. According to all of the configuration docs and Webdesk, this is not supported with the Ultra 20/25. Does anyone know why or if there are any plans to support this in the near ...

Hello AllI have a Blade with a DVD and I can not boot from a Solaris 10 DVD for installation.I hat the same problem with the DVD on my ULTRA 60. by flashing the firm ware on the DVD I got the DVD to boot with the Solaris 10 installation DVD.But now I can not find the location for the firm ware ...

Hi guys, I am new to this forum and also a new user with the Ultra 20 WOrkstation.I am having difficulty running my DSL high speed internet on this machine using WIndows XP. I have all the connections with the modem set up properly and also am able to connect to the internet. The only thing I ...

Hi all,I'm getting an old Ultra 60 workstation from work, and I'd like to turn it into either a linux or solaris 10 server. I have lots of linux experience, but only on x86 and a little on PPC. I'm getting only the tower from work (no cables or peripherals at all), and I haven't a clue of ...

Does this work in Solaris 10 installs?I've just enabled it and got the 'Bad PBR signal' error indicating it isn't supported! Steve

Does anyone know about the following information? I can't find the info in the service manual.Internal drive bay interface (Fast SCSI, Fast Wide SCSI or SCA?)Internal drive bay height restriction (low profile, 1 inch?)External SCSI port interface (Fast SCSI, Fast Wide SCSI or SCA?)Another ...

Does anyboby here knows how many flops are processed by a Ultra Sparc III Processor?or knows how to calculate it by means of commands. I've been looking for this answer.

I bought an Ultra 20 about one year ago with the AMD Opteron 144 CPU. Is it possible to upgrade the CPU to another model in the same line? I was thinking of the 154 or 156. Any recommendations?Brennan

Hi. I just unpacked a new Ultra 20, booted it up, set up the network and such (with pretty generic settings).I logged in as root, ran the update manager application, and installed everything it suggested. Many of them failed with cryptic error messages, but it seemed that some of the updates ...

I've got a Ultra 60 that my boss was nice enough to let me take home to play with. It has been running fine at my desk at work for several months. After getting it home, the Ultra 60 will no longer boot up. It gets to the point where it shows the banner, but no farther than that. I can get ...

Hi I have installed solaris 10 x86 in my pc having lg monitor standard monitor 2.54 celeron processor , installation was smooth with no problem , after booting iam not able to get gui it is out of range frenquency error in the monitor ,but iam able to work in cli will any body to how resolve it ...

Hey everyone, I recently bought an Ultra 10 off of eBay and when I tried to boot it the power supply turned on and the fans spun but I wasn't getting any video... so out came the serial cables!After starting POST it gets about half way through (maybe?) and then just stops with a repeating ...

What is the fastest (or best, based on specs) graphics card that will work in my system?The Sun Handbook lists several that will work, but I had trouble finding a public consolidated list of graphics cards and their specifications. I'm particularly interested in a UPA compatible card. I ...

I have an Ultra 2 at home to play with, 2 internal 9 GB disks, mostly full. It also has an SBUS SCSI card. So what are my choices to add some disk to this ? I would prefer not replacing what I have. Are there some reasonable external SCSI disks out there ? What do I look for ? ...