Can't suspend Ultra 25 with Solaris 10

Folkses,
i try to suspend my machine with gnome-sys-suspend and get the following error:Apr 18 15:43:40 obelix2 cpr: System is being suspended
Apr 18 15:45:29 obelix2 cpr: WARNING: Could not stop "ufsreclaim" kernel thread. Please try again later.
Apr 18 15:45:41 obelix2 cpr: NOTICE: Suspend operation failed.
Apr 18 15:45:41 obelix2 cpr: System has been resumed.and obviously the system doen't suspend.
any ideas, what the means, why this is?
thomas

Hello,
You can use kdmconfig.
Let me know if it solved your issue. I have the same problem with solaris 10 b72... JDS cannot be loaded, and I come back to the login screen. But no problem with CDE.

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Who can run in ultra turbo with low cas ramm. read pls..ill explain

This doent pertain to overclocker casue if you go over 219 fsb on 800 fsb pcu it disables mat..
Who here with an 865, 875 mobo can run 2 or 2.5 cas timings in ultra turbo with less then 215 FSB.
If so which brand ramm and what bios and board do you have .
I am about to order ramm thats iss 3-3-3-8 but i would rather get the corsair xmas which is 2-3-3-6 if id be able to run it in ultra turbo..
what do you think and all responses definately appreciated.....

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Originally posted by billy
and i might be wrong is that is you disabled speed from ayto it disables mat but im unsure..
All i know is that before i flashed my bios on my old pcb, all was wel in ultra turbo ..
After the flash couldnt do it anymore regardless of old flash and msi on the phone for 2 hours....
I think the 875 p has some hidden number which it calculates as being dafe or not, if your memory regardless of what timings you set it at reads lower then it thinks safe you will crash at boot.
Thats why i am making all this hype about memory . I cant afford to rMa belive you me i want that corsair twinx1024-3200cpt thats listed in the ramm module spec. Only thing is how to tell if its version 1.1 like they ask . I dont think version 1.1 is abtainable. this is referring to the ramm list for the neo 875 fisr pcb 2.0 . Also it lists ocz but which one do i get..
From what you are telling me, is anyone will work and to get2-2-2-5 if i can , but i think there might be a catch to this when the boards reads it. Im unsure. If so how to fake out the bios and let your manuel timings stick.
On my last boord after the flash , even when i flashed back i after loading default and running onece i restarted and set them to 3-4-4-8 and if i even went from slow to fast i could not boot. This only hapened in dual mode. In single i could hit ultra turbo....
remarks lol... If you know a way around this... also if you can tell me about that corsir ramm listed in the fisr's list. i can buy it but how do i know its v1.1 lol...
no, MAT can be still enabled with SPD disabled. for example i have the performance mode enabled, but i set my RAM timings manually. but i said that before, you must have missed it...
i didnt understand what you were trying to say here, your english is pretty weird. 2-2-2-5 timings can be done only with the new Corsair XL memory, and only under 215MHz. this kinda "is" the ultra turbo mode i guess, because you cant tighten the timings anymore.
and as that other guy said, 2-3-2-6 rated memory is always a safe bet as far as compatibility is concerned, from Kingston, Corsair or whoever. the new BIOS version dont have any problems with that from my experience.
as i said, i dont understand your other questions, but i hope your memory issue is solved.
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I'm not going to bother reading what everyone else posted, I have that 2-3-2-6 rated memory from corsair, and I run ultra-turbo. N/P
with SPD enabled or disabled? im just asking because i cant set MAT to ultra turbo with SPD setting the memory timings. Turbo is the best i can do here.

NIC on Ultra 10 with Solaris 10 not running

Hi,
I have a couple of Old Ultra 10's. I've installed Solaris 10 on both of them. I tried to give them a point to point connectivity using a Cross-over cable. But, when I do a ifconfig -a on both of them, I get it as
<UP, BROADCAST, MULTICAST> MTU ...... if you noticed here, I did not get them as RUNNIING. I have given them private IP's 192.168.1.1 and .2 and they are both on 255.255.255.0. I have them both plumbed and up with the above IP and netmasks. but they do not ping each other. I wonder where I am wrong. Can somebody gimme a insight into this, as to what has to be done to rectify this problem. One of them had the MTU value as 8232 and the other one at 1500 so, I gave the one with 8232
# ifconfig hme0 mtu 1500
1. Are the IPs correct ?
2. Are the net mask values set right ?
3. Should any of the files need to be updated?
4. what about the /etc/defaultrouter does this have to do anything with the servers not pinging each other ?
5. Does the NIC driver need an update for Solaris 10 ? If so can you pls specify the link for me to download ?
Advice Pls.
David

I've had tremendous trouble in the past with making crossover ethernet cables function properly on some Ultra 10 machines. As far as I'm aware, it should have the same hardware as other Sun models, but that's the only one I've had real problems with.
I've had several jumpstart setups that failed until I was able to bring in a hub or switch instead of working them back-to-back.
So no direct help from me, I'm afraid. But it could just be the hardware. Use 'kstat' (or the ndd method) to check if the link is up. No link, no traffic. Until that happens your questions 1-4 are irrelevant. Question 5 is a good one, but no, Solaris 10 would include the hardware drivers. And for equipment as old as the Ultra 10, I'm guessing there haven't been many recent updates.
Darren

SUN Ultra-2 with Solaris 9 constantly self reboots

The Ultra-2 self reboots several times per day.
It is a kernel problem but I was unable to find a solution, so I hope that someone from this forum will help me.
The uname information is:
SunOS ermis 5.9 Generic_118558-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
The log information is:
Oct 18 12:41:47 ermis SUNW,UltraSPARC: [ID 110026 kern.warning] WARNING: [AFT1] EDP event on CPU1 Data access at TL=0, errID 0x00000691.0326e08e
Oct 18 12:41:47 ermis AFSR 0x00000000.00400100<EDP> AFAR 0xffffffff.ffffffff
Oct 18 12:41:47 ermis AFSR.PSYND 0x0100(Score 95) AFSR.ETS 0x00 Fault_PC 0xfd6dbf38
Oct 18 12:41:47 ermis UDBH 0x0000 UDBH.ESYND 0x00 UDBL 0x0000 UDBL.ESYND 0x00
Oct 18 12:41:47 ermis SUNW,UltraSPARC: [ID 581146 kern.info] [AFT2] errID 0x00000691.0326e08e No error found in ecache (No fault PA available)
Oct 18 12:41:47 ermis SUNW,UltraSPARC: [ID 542596 kern.info] [AFT3] errID 0x00000691.0326e08e Above Error is in User Mode
Oct 18 12:41:47 ermis and is fatal: will reboot
Oct 18 12:41:47 ermis unix: [ID 855177 kern.warning] WARNING: [AFT1] initiating reboot due to above error in pid 580 (httpd)
Oct 18 12:41:52 ermis pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: tod0
Oct 18 12:41:52 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] tod0 is /pseudo/tod@0
Oct 18 12:42:04 ermis syslogd: going down on signal 15
Oct 18 12:42:26 ermis genunix: [ID 672855 kern.notice] syncing file systems...
Oct 18 12:42:26 ermis genunix: [ID 904073 kern.notice] done
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] ^MSunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_118558-14 32-bit
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis genunix: [ID 943905 kern.notice] Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis Use is subject to license terms.
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis unix: [ID 349649 kern.info]
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis NOTICE: 64-bit OS installed, but the 32-bit OS is the default
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis for the processor(s) on this system.
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis See boot(1M) for more information.
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis Booting the 32-bit OS ...
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis genunix: [ID 678236 kern.info] Ethernet address = 8:0:20:8f:82:a0
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis unix: [ID 389951 kern.info] mem = 393216K (0x18000000)
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis unix: [ID 930857 kern.info] avail mem = 381861888
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis rootnex: [ID 466748 kern.info] root nexus = Sun Ultra 2 UPA/SBus (2 X UltraSPARC 200MHz)
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] sbus0 at root: UPA 0x1f 0x0 ...
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sbus0 is /sbus@1f,0
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info] /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,fas@e,8800000 (fas0):
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis rev 2.2 FEPS chip
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis sbus: [ID 349649 kern.info] fas0 at sbus0: SBus0 slot 0xe offset 0x8800000 and slot 0xe offset 0x8810000 Onboard device sparc9 ipl 4
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] fas0 is /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,fas@e,8800000
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd0 at fas0: target 0 lun 0
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd0 is /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@0,0
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd1 at fas0: target 1 lun 0
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd1 is /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@1,0
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd3 at fas0: target 3 lun 0
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd3 is /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@3,0
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd6 at fas0: target 6 lun 0
Oct 18 12:43:09 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd6 is /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@6,0
Oct 18 12:43:13 ermis swapgeneric: [ID 308332 kern.info] root on /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@1,0:a fstype ufs
Oct 18 12:43:14 ermis sbus: [ID 349649 kern.info] zs0 at sbus0: SBus0 slot 0xf offset 0x1100000 Onboard device sparc9 ipl 12
Oct 18 12:43:14 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] zs0 is /sbus@1f,0/zs@f,1100000
Oct 18 12:43:14 ermis sbus: [ID 349649 kern.info] zs1 at sbus0: SBus0 slot 0xf offset 0x1000000 Onboard device sparc9 ipl 12
Oct 18 12:43:14 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] zs1 is /sbus@1f,0/zs@f,1000000
Oct 18 12:43:17 ermis sbus: [ID 349649 kern.info] cgsix0 at sbus0: SBus0 slot 0x1 offset 0x0 SBus level 5 sparc9 ipl 9
Oct 18 12:43:17 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] cgsix0 is /sbus@1f,0/cgsix@1,0
Oct 18 12:43:17 ermis cgsix: [ID 260993 kern.info] cgsix0: screen 1152x900, single buffered, 1M mappable, rev 11
Oct 18 12:43:17 ermis unix: [ID 270833 kern.info] cpu0: UltraSPARC (portid 0 impl 0x10 ver 0x40 clock 200 MHz)
Oct 18 12:43:17 ermis unix: [ID 270833 kern.info] cpu1: UltraSPARC (portid 1 impl 0x10 ver 0x40 clock 200 MHz)
Oct 18 12:43:17 ermis unix: [ID 721127 kern.info] cpu 1 initialization complete - online
Oct 18 12:43:22 ermis hme: [ID 517527 kern.info] SUNW,hme0 : Sbus (Rev Id = 22) Found
Oct 18 12:43:22 ermis sbus: [ID 349649 kern.info] hme0 at sbus0: SBus0 slot 0xe offset 0x8c00000 and slot 0xe offset 0x8c02000 and slot 0xe offset 0x8c04000 and slot 0xe offset 0x8c06000 and slot 0xe offset 0x8c07000 Onboard device sparc9 ipl 6
Oct 18 12:43:22 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] hme0 is /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,hme@e,8c00000
Oct 18 12:43:24 ermis genunix: [ID 454863 kern.info] dump on /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1 size 513 MB
Oct 18 12:43:26 ermis hme: [ID 517527 kern.info] SUNW,hme0 : Internal Transceiver Selected.
Oct 18 12:43:26 ermis hme: [ID 517527 kern.info] SUNW,hme0 : 100 Mbps Full-Duplex Link Up
Oct 18 12:43:30 ermis pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: devinfo0
Oct 18 12:43:30 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] devinfo0 is /pseudo/devinfo@0
Oct 18 12:43:30 ermis pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: laner0
Oct 18 12:43:30 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] laner0 is /pseudo/laner@0
Oct 18 12:43:43 ermis inetd[189]: [ID 965992 daemon.error] pop/tcp: unknown service
Oct 18 12:43:46 ermis pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: tod0
Oct 18 12:43:46 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] tod0 is /pseudo/tod@0
Oct 18 12:43:47 ermis pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: pm0
Oct 18 12:43:47 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pm0 is /pseudo/pm@0
Oct 18 12:43:55 ermis pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: vol0
Oct 18 12:43:55 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] vol0 is /pseudo/vol@0
Oct 18 12:44:04 ermis pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: pm0
Oct 18 12:44:04 ermis genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pm0 is /pseudo/pm@0

Hello,
I don't think it is a kernel problem but a h/ware problem.
CPU 1 reported an ecache (sram) data parity event,
the fault handling code in 5.9 can't do anything about the
error as it is in a page belonging to a user process so it reboots the box.
The no error found in ecache means that either the
fault handling code displaced the error from the cache or there
wasn't one and you had a transient transport error between the
cache and the cpu.
I would engage your h/ware support vendor to work out what h/ware component is broken as these things are quite complex, but the score of 95 would (to a h/ware novice like me) point to cpu 1 being the culprit - but check with an expert.
tim

Upgrading Ultra 5 Solaris 2.6 to V280 with Solaris 8 or 9

Our Ultra 5 still runs Solaris 2.6. What's the easiest way to upgrade this box (hardware and OS), without having to re-install all apps? We're looking at used V280s, but I figure they will not run Solaris 2.6, so an upgrade is needed. Should I first upgrade to 8 or 9 on the Ultra 5, and then move the dump files (or disks?) on to the the V280? This sounds like it's not going to work. Otherwise, what's a smooth hardware transition for an Ultra 5, for us to get newer harware and OS?
Budget is limited. I can't try out many scenarios.

Solaris is backward compatable, perhaps you should try to migrate on a test platform first, shouldn't be too difficult to get another SPARC system. I use 220R for this, cheap on parts, very reliable and has a broad range of supported OS releases, limited only in performance compared with newer systems.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/E220R/E220R.html
I agree with you on the hardware upgrade, Ultra 5 is a platform with many limitations. I am not 100% with Informix, my experience with it is on the HU-UX platform, however IBM released version 10 in 2005.
http://safari.oreilly.com/0130122475
One thing is sure though, if you approach IBM regarding the upgrade, you may be looking a new/upgrade licenses, this may be the reason the managment have not taken that option.
Another suggestion would be to consider another server that supports Solaris 2.6 instead of the 280R, this would make life much easier, Sun Enterprise 420R may suit, at least you will find a fully loaded system to perform much better than the Ultra 5 ( supports up to 4 CPUs and 4GB RAM ).
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/E420R/E420R.html
For more expansion ( CPUs and Memory ), but more complicated there is a E4500 as well:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/E4500/E4500.html
Moving to a new platform is not going to be cheap either way, but software migration will be the more expensive route.
Sun offer both of the above mentioned systems with full as new warranty in the remanufactured program:
http://www.sun.com/remanufactured/

Can not use SVM disc mirror on Sun X2200 M2 with solaris u7

Last year,I tried to build cluster with solaris u6, but I got this error "Insufficient metadevice database replicas located" after SVM set up.
I tried lastest solaris 10 u7(09/05) with Sun x2200 M2 server again, but I got the same error.
I think it maybe driver's problem,so I tested solaris 10 u7 again with one old x86 machines and this machines has pure scsi card and scsi disc.
Also I tried it with ide drive, and everything is fine without any error message.
I checked that solaris 10 u5 will consider sata disc on x2200 m2 as ide disc, so SVM works fine.
But after I upgrade to solaris 10 u7,system will consider sata disc as scsi drive, and SVM will not work.
So I can see this is a bug of solaris 10 u7?
Edited by: cheung79 on 2009/7/3 ?? 11:04

-bash-3.00# metadb -i
flags first blk block count
a m p lu 16 8192 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7
a p l 8208 8192 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7
a p l 16400 8192 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7
M u 16 unknown /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7
M u 8208 unknown /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7
M u 16400 unknown /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7
r - replica does not have device relocation information
o - replica active prior to last mddb configuration change
u - replica is up to date
l - locator for this replica was read successfully
c - replica's location was in /etc/lvm/mddb.cf
p - replica's location was patched in kernel
m - replica is master, this is replica selected as input
W - replica has device write errors
a - replica is active, commits are occurring to this replica
M - replica had problem with master blocks
D - replica had problem with data blocks
F - replica had format problems
S - replica is too small to hold current data base
R - replica had device read errors
I don't have "set md:mirrored_root_flag=1" line in /etc/system.
Do you mean boot device is scsi hdd? but it is sata hdd.
-bash-3.00# ls -l /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Jul 7 17:55 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci108e,534b@5/disk@0,0:a,raw

Ultra 10 crashes with Solaris 7:panic[cpu0] ... ECache SRAM ...

The error message is as follows:
panic[cpu0]/thread=706a6920: cpu0 Ecache SRAM Data Parity Error: AFSR 0x00000000
.0040003 AFSR 0x00000000.1364a7b8
Syncing file systems ????
dumping to /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1, offset ???
100% done: 2484 pages dumped, compression ratio 2.94, dump succeeded
Rebooting...
Restarting...
Thanks

Hi JTB,
There is not currently a patch for Solaris, but you may want to take a look at the following articles that address the use of GPIB-ENET devices with Solaris 8:
GPIB-ENET/100 Fails with Solaris 8
Unable to Use the GPIB-ENET with LabVIEW under Solaris
Again, I recommend trying to monitor the specific commands you are executing and where the error is occurring in order to isolate the issue.
Regards,
Lauren
Applications Engineering
National Instruments

Is it possible to make a DVD rom work on Sparc Ultra 5 running Solaris 2.6?

I have been asked to try and get a DVD drive to work on a sparc ultra 5 running Solaris 2.6.
Its been a while since I have done much with an ultra 5. My first reaction was no. However I thought that I should ask just in case it can be done.
Its got to be Solaris 2.6 because of other applications running on it. I believe that the DVD has been installed using an IDE cable.
Can anybody give me any advice?
Thanks
Phil

I have a vague recollection that the filesystem structure of DVD versus CD
(and perhaps its capacity differences... )
I said the recollection was vague...
are why the DVD optical media was not functional or usable.until Solaris 8.
Try an experiment.
Put such a drive into the system, get a copy of CDRTOOLS for Solaris 2.6(SPARC)
[http://www.sunfreeware.com/indexsparc26.html]
and see if you can do anything with it.
Better yet, suggest to the system's owner that they go do it.
It'd be a learning experience for them.
I agree with Harold that Sol10 would be too much for that beastie.
The sweet spot was Solaris 7 or 8.
Edit: ... and give the Duke Stars to Harold.

Can Host ID be changed on Solaris 10

Recently upgraded an Ultra 10 from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 10.
Problem:
We use an application that is no longer supported by the manufacturer. The application ran on the Ultra when it had Solaris 2.6. It required a specific host ID because it was originally licensed on a much older system. We cannot get a new license authorization for the application because the company is no longer in business.
To get around this, we used a program called "hid2" to change the host ID of the system. This temporarily changed the host ID on the Ultra and allowed the application to run.
After installing Solaris 10, I run the command "hid2 newhostid", and I get an error "cannot read namelist out of /dev/ksyms". The command to change the host ID is "hid2 newhostid" where newhostid is the ID required by the application.
Is this something with Solaris 10? It worked with the same hardware when the OS was Solaris 2.6.
I need an excutable program like hid2 because I'm not knowledgeable enough to compile C programs. There are several available on other websites but those that are excutabiles didn't work..
Does anyone know what to do? Do I need to install an older version of the OS? I've used 10 a little on a x86 system and like it. I'd like to upgrade this Ultra to 10.
Thank you.
jdw

Jonathan,
Keep in mind that the hints given in that Squirrel.Com link work for OBP 3.x systems, only.
When the time comes that you migrate to the next, newer system, it'll likely have an OBP design of 4.x or 5.x or 6.x, and the procedure will NOT work. The mkpl functions were deliberately removed by Sun.
So... it may now be the time to start a budget line item to save up to replace that software. Perhaps find a program that can take advantage of 21st Century computing, with 64bit and CMT architecture. <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile">

Several mysterious problems with Solaris 11 x86 install

Hi folks,
I've recently installed Solaris 11 x86 as a replacement for Solaris 9 SPARC on an Ultra 2 machine. I like the operating system, but I've promptly acquired some mysterious problems. The computer is a Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo E2500 with a Pentium 4 HT 3.06 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, an 80 GB SATA disk and a 147 GB SCSI disk.
I have had a few occasions on which the screen goes totally blank, the monitor claims that there is no signal, and I have to restart the machine. However, with the blank screen, the hard drive activity light is sometimes still flashing. This happens predictably when I try to log off (as opposed to shutting down) and when I use Totem media player and click on anything inside the Totem window. The motherboard has built-in graphics and brief specifications can be found here:
http://uk.ts.fujitsu.com/rl/servicesupport/techsupport/professionalpc/ESPRIMO/Datasheets/ds_esprimo_edition_e2500.pdf
Yesterday my PS/2 keyboard started causing the motherboard to beep crazily when I use it. It beeps rapidly 4 times, then prints the expected character. However, the problem doesn't occur at the initial log in screen. The mouse cursor has also gone beserk on one occasion, flying all over the screen (I had this problem with a previous PC, but a different OS, and thought it was a hardware fault, which I why I got this new computer). With the keyboard problem, the machine is basically unusable. However, it is configured as a dual boot machine, and the keyboard problem isn't present with Windows XP.
There are also a few smaller, odd problems. Occasionally all the icons vanish from my Gnome desktop. The command prompt also mysteriously changed from $chris@pluto to $bash-4.1 just before the keyboard problem appeared, although that might have had something to do with me copying my home directory to a different disk and editing the /etc/auto_home file (moving the home directory worked fine). Also, unlike with Solaris 9 SPARC, I find that I have to have external SCSI devices switched on at boot time, should I want to use them later. That's a pain. With Solaris 9, I could run "boot -r" when I first attached the device, then switch on the SCSI devices and mount them whenever I wanted.
After the useful advice I received here about "more" and "less", I thought I'd post these problems and see if anyone can help. I'd really appreciate some advice. Can anyone identify likely causes for these problems? Which problems can I expect to solve and which do I have to live with?
Many thanks,
Chris Tidy
Edited by: Chris Tidy on 23-Mar-2012 03:36

Hi folks,
I've recently installed Solaris 11 x86 as a replacement for Solaris 9 SPARC on an Ultra 2 machine. I like the operating system, but I've promptly acquired some mysterious problems. The computer is a Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo E2500 with a Pentium 4 HT 3.06 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, an 80 GB SATA disk and a 147 GB SCSI disk.
I have had a few occasions on which the screen goes totally blank, the monitor claims that there is no signal, and I have to restart the machine. However, with the blank screen, the hard drive activity light is sometimes still flashing. This happens predictably when I try to log off (as opposed to shutting down) and when I use Totem media player and click on anything inside the Totem window. The motherboard has built-in graphics and brief specifications can be found here:
http://uk.ts.fujitsu.com/rl/servicesupport/techsupport/professionalpc/ESPRIMO/Datasheets/ds_esprimo_edition_e2500.pdf
Yesterday my PS/2 keyboard started causing the motherboard to beep crazily when I use it. It beeps rapidly 4 times, then prints the expected character. However, the problem doesn't occur at the initial log in screen. The mouse cursor has also gone beserk on one occasion, flying all over the screen (I had this problem with a previous PC, but a different OS, and thought it was a hardware fault, which I why I got this new computer). With the keyboard problem, the machine is basically unusable. However, it is configured as a dual boot machine, and the keyboard problem isn't present with Windows XP.
There are also a few smaller, odd problems. Occasionally all the icons vanish from my Gnome desktop. The command prompt also mysteriously changed from $chris@pluto to $bash-4.1 just before the keyboard problem appeared, although that might have had something to do with me copying my home directory to a different disk and editing the /etc/auto_home file (moving the home directory worked fine). Also, unlike with Solaris 9 SPARC, I find that I have to have external SCSI devices switched on at boot time, should I want to use them later. That's a pain. With Solaris 9, I could run "boot -r" when I first attached the device, then switch on the SCSI devices and mount them whenever I wanted.
After the useful advice I received here about "more" and "less", I thought I'd post these problems and see if anyone can help. I'd really appreciate some advice. Can anyone identify likely causes for these problems? Which problems can I expect to solve and which do I have to live with?
Many thanks,
Chris Tidy
Edited by: Chris Tidy on 23-Mar-2012 03:36

Ultra 10 with KVM and usb Sun keyboard

Hi,
I have 4 servers, two ultra 10, a Sun Fire V880 and a Sun Fire V250, I want all of them to be controlled form a KVM which has support of Ultra 10 platforms, that is, i have two cables with sun 6 tyoe keyboard and mouse. To the KVM i have attached USB keyboard and mouse.
The problem is that the two Ultra 10 servers won't react to the keyboard presses or mouse movements. Is there a way to configure the Ultra 10 servers to work fine with the keyboard and mouse attached to the kvm? is it a kvm problem or a USB mouse/keyboard problem?
thanks!!

Thanks Michael,
I had previously am Advovent KVM and everything worked nicely, with a type 6 sun keyboard and mouse. Now i changed to a blackbox kvm which supports this type of SUN keyboard/mouse. But i'm using now Sun USB keyboard and mouse. I can admin the Ultra 10 workstations remotely or though console, but i would love to have keyb/mouse access as I allways had.
I wonder if there is some incompatibility between the Ultra 10 workstations and the Sun USB keyboard and mouse or if it is just something related to the KVM... i could try and buy Sun keyb. type of connector from the keyb/mouse to the KVM and if it works that would mean that the Ultra 10 didn't like the USB devices indeed, but before wasting the money i would like to know if there is some kind of patch i could try on the Ultra 10 systmes to see if they support the USB devices... would a OS upgrade make the work also (let's say, to Solaris 10)?

NVIDIA GeForce 2 Ultra drivers for Solaris 8

I am having trouble making the GeForce 2 Ultra drivers from NVIDIA. I have the latest gcc and make from GNU, but I keep getting errors. Has anyone been able to successfully load them and get them to work with the GeForece? Thanks in advance.

unixforall,
I had the same problem under linux. I can only tell you what I did for Linux as I haven't had a chance to download Solaris yet. Get the following file:
ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.0.2/Install
If you follow this step by step (it is very self explanatory) then you should end up with a few binaries that are compatible with the GeForce. In particular the XFree86 X server module. I don't know if there are any other catches with Solaris but with Linux (RH7) this worked like a charm (except I overwrote my previous config files and had to reinvent the wheel - be careful backup all config files if you are going to overwrite them). Anyway I hope this is of some use.

Sun Ultra 10 with SunStorEDGE A1000/D1000 unable to setup

I realise this covers old ground but I have not been able to trace a uitable resolvement and would be grateful for assistance.
I have a Sun Ultra 10 with 256MB RAM and 440GHz cpu.. It has a pci Adaptec 2944UW HVD SCSI interface card. The storage system is a tray of eight scsi 72GB disks housed in a D1000 case. NetBSD reported it as an A1000 SunStorEDGE at sd0 having 16 targets and 8 luns. However NetBSD did not have a readily available controller to setup the raid system so I installed an alternative. I presume the case is a reused old case housing an A1000 unit.
I tried to format the drives directly but they are not lists as devices such as ct1sd1 etc. and so this is not possible.
I have installed Sun Solaris 10 but could not communicate and reported inability to use rdriver and rdnexus and after reading a number of reports that driver hooks had been removed from the kernel in Solaris 10 I have installed Solaris 9.
On both occasions I installed a number of RAID Manager 6.1.1 control packs, namely SUNWosafw, osar, osau, osamn and vtsse direct from my CD here.
I commanded dr_hotadd.sh to take up the challenge but it failed to communicate.
I added a number of Rdac amendments to rparams in /etc/osa but this did not resolve the issue.
I have tried to call probe-scsi-all after doing a reset-all from the OBP but this fails to report anything. I presume this is because the unit is connected by the interface card rather than a direct scsi disk.
dmesg pipe grep scsi reports:
unknown scsi sd0 at uata0 target 2 lun 0
I would be very grateful fr guidance to resolve this connection so that I can create a suitable filestore.
Thanks
c

blackfoot wrote:
I realise this covers old ground but I have not been able to trace a uitable resolvement and would be grateful for assistance.
I have a Sun Ultra 10 with 256MB RAM and 440GHz cpu.. It has a pci Adaptec 2944UW HVD SCSI interface card. The storage system is a tray of eight scsi 72GB disks housed in a D1000 case. NetBSD reported it as an A1000 SunStorEDGE at sd0 having 16 targets and 8 luns. However NetBSD did not have a readily available controller to setup the raid system so I installed an alternative. I presume the case is a reused old case housing an A1000 unit.If it's really an A1000, you won't have access to the drives. You'll only see exposed LUNS from the raid controller. Do you have a dial in the rear with a scsi address? That will be the address that the A1000 will respond on. In addition, the A1000 has only one pair of SCSI ports. The D1000 has two pair and doesn't have the scsi adress dial (because each of the disks in the chassis respond on their own addresses). Instead you have some DIP switches to change the addressing behavior.
I tried to format the drives directly but they are not lists as devices such as ct1sd1 etc. and so this is not possible.
I have installed Sun Solaris 10 but could not communicate and reported inability to use rdriver and rdnexus and after reading a number of reports that driver hooks had been removed from the kernel in Solaris 10 I have installed Solaris 9.That's fine. You can ignore them. Neither the A1000 nor D1000 require those drivers. You should still be able to use 'rm6' or the CLI tools to interact with an A1000.
On both occasions I installed a number of RAID Manager 6.1.1 control packs, namely SUNWosafw, osar, osau, osamn and vtsse direct from my CD here.
I commanded dr_hotadd.sh to take up the challenge but it failed to communicate.
I added a number of Rdac amendments to rparams in /etc/osa but this did not resolve the issue.
I have tried to call probe-scsi-all after doing a reset-all from the OBP but this fails to report anything. I presume this is because the unit is connected by the interface card rather than a direct scsi disk.If the controller doesn't support the OBP environment, then yes, you won't see anything then.
dmesg pipe grep scsi reports:
unknown scsi sd0 at uata0 target 2 lun 0So that might be a single LUN from an A1000 controller. If the selector switch in the back is set to '2', then it's even more likely.
Darren

Network connectivity on Sparc with Solaris 8

Hello friends,
I have a Sparc Ultra 5 machine with Solaris 8 .
Now I want to establish network connectivity by configuring net work card in it.also I want to establish connectivity with Intel Systems also.How can I accomplish this.
I will be grateful to you if u cud guide me in this.
Thank u in anticipation
sreerama

I think the V20z have an ordinary broadcom chipset, if so the network interface should be called bgeX.
So try:
ifconfig bge0 plumb
.. dont forget your /etc/hostname.bge0 file..
7/M.

Parallel port programming for a Sun Ultra 5 running Solaris 8

Hi I'm trying to look for information about reading/writing to the parallel port of a Sun Ultra 5 running Solaris 8. I'd just like to see some basic programs written in C, nothing fancy, just reading and wrting to the port, getting the port address etc. toggling the lines.
I've tried searching for this information and there is plenty of information about PC parallel port programming with windows or Linux. But there seems to be little for Sun's
I've tried doing 'man ecpp' but that doesn't really give any clear example. What I need is an idiots guide.
I've tried searching this Forum and I see that other people have asked the same question before but no one has replied to them. Why is this?
Thanks if you can help.
fishman.

The key is gettting the port into diag mode. Here's a quickly little example that turns all the data pins on and then turns them off:
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/conf.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stropts.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/ecppio.h>
int fd = 0;
// ecpp structures
ecpp_transfer_parms etp;
ecpp_regs eregs;
// returns -1 if error otherwise returns fd
int openoutput()
fd = open("/dev/ecpp0",O_RDWR);
if (fd==-1) { return -1; }
// default is 90
etp.write_timeout = 10;
// the big secret
etp.mode = ECPP_DIAG_MODE;
ioctl(fd,ECPPIOC_SETPARMS,&etp);
return fd;
unsigned char in()
unsigned char data;
// from the man pages
ioctl(fd,ECPPIOC_GETREGS,&eregs);
data = eregs.dsr;
return data;
void out( unsigned char data )
write(fd,&data,1);
int main( void )
int dummy;
openoutput();
//all data pins on
out( 255 );
scanf("%d", &dummy);
//all data pins off
out( 0 );
scanf("%d", &dummy);
close( fd );
return 0;
}

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