As an experiment, I put a 2-USB-port Iogear PCI card in my Ultra 10 (running Solaris 10) and plugged in a Verbatim "Store 'n' Go Pro" memory system once the system was up. Cfgadm lists it as usb-storage, connected, and configured. Rmformat finds it at /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 but I seem to be ...

Hello,My w2100z shutdowns everytime i try to boot it. I had a similar problem with w1100z and was able to take care of it by updating the BIOS.But with 2100z, it shutsdown even before it boots from the cd. Any idea how make it run long enough to boot from the cd?here is the link to where the ...

Is it possible to run 4 independent monitors with Sun Ultra 40 and Linux RedHat WS?

I have many Sun Ultra-5 units in production. Another unit has recently failed and the symptoms are always the same.(a) No output on the display. (b) A RED State Exception loop (see example below) output to serial Port-A.RED State Exception TT=0000.0000.0000TL=0000.0000.0000.0005 ...

I have a sun usb keyboard and I'd like to use it on my Ultra 10. Can I plug it in the usb pci card I installed then the regular sun mouse in the regular spot?

I have an Ultra 5 - the original Sun monitor failed.The original Sun monitor had a 13W3 male connector which was connected to a 13W3 female to HD15 male cable (11 pin).I purchased a flat panel Acer, VGA (15 pin) monitor to replace the Sun monitor.The Ultra 5 does not play well with the new ...

Hi, I have one sparcstation 20 with one CPU supersparc II (75 MHZ), not interne disk but with 2 UltraSCSI and solaris 2.5.1. Sometime, the station boot well with no problem. But when I want to do action (access to one file for example) the system reboot with the message :==========Copyright(c) ...

Hi, whenever I try to use Realplayer 10 to stream audio the application gets very slow and/or freezes. This also happens when I try to play an mp3 in a local directory. I do get audio though. I suspect some sound card problem. Can anyone help?Realplayer 10.0.8.805 (gold)RH4U4Sun Ultra 20 (dual ...

I am about to get a new Prom chip for my Blade 100 after the previous one get fubared. Can I just put it in or is there something special I should know?

HI , Is any one can help me to identifing this erroe ocure when i m install solaries 9 on my ultra 10 workstation , when i am start installation on my ultra 10 system ,Warining: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@2,0 (dad1)corrupt lable - wrong magic number.thanks.

I've been given an ultra 2 to get going and can't see it booting at all.It's connected via serial A to a terminal which I think I've configured correctly 9600 8N1, but I don't see anything going to the screen.I've also tried using an Ultra 5 as the terminal using tip hardwire, but still ...

hi where can I get a the driver for Sun Serial parallel controller 1.2Sun OS solaris 1.1.2regards,Drako

I have an Airport Extreme network.I would like to add a Sun sparc Ultra 5 to the network.Google did not have any info on the subject.I would appreciate the help.Thanks,

Guys, When I first bought the Ultra 10 (440MHz,512MB and no Creator3D), I connected to the VGA and minimal installed Solaris 8. OBP version = 3.25 Then I bought a creator 3D card + 13W3 adaptor, installed the card in the UPA slot and got myself into the following troubles, when I connected the ...

Hi,I want to connect an external raid system (Infortrend) to an Ultra 60. I read that the pci bus of the Ultra 60 is compliant with pci standard 2.1. I am now wondering if one of the following cards would work with the Ultra 60:- QLA2310F (qlogic PCI-X 2gb fibre card, specification says that it ...

Hello all!I would like to assemble Solaris 10 system, requirements are: AMD Athlon 64 dual core processor, RAID 0 on SATA 10 krpm hard drives (like Raptor WD), graphics at least 1280x1024.Now I have a system with Celeron processor, video onboard 1280x1024, 2 WD Raptors 10 krpm 37G but it ...

Is it possible? TO dismantle the CPU module and replace with CPU's?Steve

Hi,I am having a few problems connecting an Ultra 5 to my laptop via serial cable.I have looked at the following instructions: http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Unix/Solaris/SOLARIS_UsingSerialConsoles.shtm l http://www.sunhelp.org/unix-serial-port-resources/serial-pinouts/#u10.linkand have ...

I'm trying to configure the Blade 1500 running Solaris 10 to use the DVi output. Still haven't got a signal.Anyone successfully do this? I followed suggestions for modifying the Servers file and adding :0 Local local_uid@console root /usr/X11/bin/Xserver :0 -nobanner -dev /dev/fbs/pfb0a -dev ...

I'm about to replace my original Sun 20GB IDE disk drive in my Ultra 10 with a new, non-Sun 120GB disk. (I'm aware of the IDE controller issue of having a 120GB size limitation in this machine) Is there anything special I need to do to prepare the disk (pre-formatting, etc.) to use it as the ...

I have an Ultra 5 networked to a HP 2500CM and a HP LaserJet 4M+. The laserjet works just fine but the 2500CM is dated and doesnt print very well. I could spend the money to replace the print heads or I can replace the printer to get better resolution than 600dpi. The question i have is, can I ...

Hi Forum,after upgrading a Sun Blade 2000 to Solaris 10 6/06, the DVD drive gives me a headache: It will recognise media in the drive. When going to /cdrom, there's nothing in /cdrom0 and the "removable media manager" in CDE doesn't show any contents.I think the drive still works though, ...

Does anybody know which linux modules I need to load for getting sound to work in a Java Workstation W2100z?I installed Ubuntu 6.06 and everything works fine, except for sound. Ubuntu installer did not recognize the sound card. After the installation I have tried to install ALSA stuff, ...

As far as i investigated, this workstations are not running with Solaris 9/04.While trying to make a custom Jumpstart with Solaris 9, it was not possible to boot kernel/sparcv9.Does anybody know, if this workstations will be officially supporteted in the next future by Solaris 9 kernel ...

Hi all,I received a new sun ultra 20 workstation from a friend in US. After unpacking it and tried to boot it up but there is no display at all. i thought it is th problem with moniter and changed 17" TFT, CTR and some other also, but still no display. there is no beep sound from the ...

Hi All,Can the drivers and software for sun PCi II and III cards be downloaded?I searched in any possible way on sun.com, sunsolve, etc, it was hard to find even the documentation about them, but now I got that at least.What about the software? Can it be downloaded? Where ...

I'm aware of the IDE controller issue in an Ultra 10, which limits the (practical) size to 120GB disks.Are there such limitations on SCSI disk sizes if I were to add an internal SCSI PCI card for external storage? I'm thinking NO, but I just wanted to make sure. I'd like to get an external ...

Dear Forum,Please excuse what are very basic questions - I'm very new to Sun and Unix and still feeling my way around :o) I would be very grateful if someone has the time to help me with this. I installed Solaris 10 on my inherited Blade 100 and all works fine except for I cannot mount the ...

Hello.I have a Blade 1000 with an Elite 3D card.The problem is: The PC monitor I use does not support "composite sync".When using "afbconfig" to switch from one resolution to another (must be a different resolution) the video output is changed to "separate sync" if the new resolution is a VESA ...

I just got a sun blade 1000 without any OS installed. I connected its creator 3D adapter to a viewsonic vx2235wm monitor. Just got a black screen. Did I forgot something? pls advise

hiI own a sparc ultra 5 and would like to know if its possible to put in a pci video card in and use this instead of the onboard one?I understand the sparcs are not like other pcs sort of thing , - can anyone guide me on this?I am attempting to put in a 32mb pci nvidia card.so far i have a ...

I want to set up a Blade 1000 as a workstation, but the machine won't find the graphics card. I installed Solaris 10 using the serial port.I've tried a Raptop GFX and some other generic PCI graphics card. I've updated the firmware for the machine. printenv lists the output-device as ...

My company is considering getting an Ultra 40 workstation, but we want to reuse some SATA drives we already have (two 3.5" 250GB drives). Is that possible?From the manual ( http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/html/819-3952-11/stor.htm l#pgfId-1000345 ) it seems that you need ...

Does anybody have the experience to configure your PC as a Sun Serial Console? What pinout will need for a DB25M/DB9F serial cable? What terminal software you recommend?Thanks!

I give up. Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Tools & Drivers 1.4 ISO Image is out and no mention of 1.3 is made. It goes from 1.1 to 1.2 to 1.4. I have 1.3 on an Ultra 40. What's wrong with 1.3 that they would remove it from the download list?

I don't see any bios options to enable the onboard video if I have a video card installed in the PCI-Express 16 slot. Is this possible? I'd like to run the workstation dual-head.

My ultra 5 is in dire need of a Hard Drive replacement.I am currently running 2.6 solaris (I have to because of proprietary software that is no longer supported that only runs on 2.6 to my knowledge.)I bought a used drive (mistake) that lasted 5 weeks. Thankfully I had kept the other one around ...

Hello,I was trying to see where I could geta driver for Solaris 8 Sparc - 3Com 3c905Bfor SunBladeor what ethernet 100 mb network card is suppported in Solaris?Thanks

Hi All Gurus,The Ultra 10 still boot from net and cdrom, but not from disk. I already reinstall the OS.Please help.Thanks.Andry

Hello,I have an Ultra 10 box with an extra video card inside. Everything was working fine, and then I got curious and decided to open it up to see what's inside. Now it won't start anymore. I turn the computer on, the fans start spinning, but nothing gets displayed on screen. I can hear the ...

How I can get IP address from my new Sun Blade 2500? I want to install OS from network but I didn't know how I can get the IP from the machine. I'm newbie.

I'm trying to compile my rf driver (8139D chipset).I did install SWFgcc.But when i'm trying to make the rf module, it says that mac.h isn't available.So i did download it from the opensolaris project, and put it into the /usr/include/sys/ directory.But i got errors like:gem.h:170: error: ...

I installed Solaris 10 6/06 on an IBM Thinkcenter 8136 but NIC (Broadcom xtreme 5751 Gigabit) was not detected. I checked the HCL to determine availability and found a link to a driver provided by Broadcom.The installation of the driver is successful with a warning that says "devfsadm: driver ...

Hi, first of all. Thanks for checking the post.My question is on some hardware architecture. More specifically why there has been no products in the public sector like this.Now, if you take 3 seperate systems, 2 of them running as servers, one connected to the internet (A) and one private (B), ...

HiI've got at singel CPU SunBlade 1000(750Mhz) and thinking of upgrading to a 2-way system.Depends on what I find I'll just add another 750mhz CPU or two 900Mhz. It there a big difference in preformance between the 900Mhz non Cu and the 900Mhz Cu cpu?I just looked in the Sun System Handbook ...

Hello everyone !!!I need some help with my SB1000.I've got a Sun Blade1000 workstation with two 750 MHz CPUs, 2GB RAM, two hard drives (18 and 36 gig), XVR-100 video and such...Recently i started seeing some weird behavior.The box reboots for no reason and there's nothing in the ...

hi,I have a blade 2000, but today I got a broblem. the system can't boot. when i power on it, after 4 beeps it power off automatically.

I saw this cable "APC 51061-6" available sale on some website. Is there anybody using it for your Sun workstation with a PC monitor now? Please let me know if the cable works fine.

hi everybody. i'm sure this problem has a simple answer, but i can't find it...i recently bought an ultrasparc 10 on ebay and installed solaris 10 on it. this worked fine, but seeing as i only had a keyboard at that time and no mouse, i got bored with it quickly and decided to install gentoo. ...

I own a Sun Blade 2000, which I got off of eBay. I can get no useful video output from the Creator 3d (either series two or three) on four different monitors, one of which is a somewhat recent HP vs17. An old Micron gets nothing even when set to a resolution and sync rate which I know beyond a ...