Sun-microsystems Sun Fire 880 User Manual

Sun Microsystems, Inc.901 San Antonio RoadPalo Alto, CA 94303-4900 U.S.A.650-960-1300Sun Fire™880 Server Product NotesPart No. 806-6593-15December 20

4 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001Required Software Patches for Solaris 8 07/01Note – The following list represents required patches

Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 5Highly Recommended Sun Fire 880 PatchThis patch is not OS-dependant. Included in this firmware upgrade are enhanced

6 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001Note – Many third-party drivers (those purchased from vendors other than SunMicrosystems) do not su

Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 7OpenBoot Firmware DocumentationThe Sun Fire 880 server uses OpenBoot™ 4.x system firmware. Instructions for usingth

8 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001Installing Sun Fire 880 FC-AL BackplaneFirmwareA backup image of the Sun Fire 880 FC-AL backplane f

Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 91. As superuser, type the following command to bring the system to single-usermode:2. Place the security keyswitch

10 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001Where enclosure_name is the enclosure name assigned to the Sun Fire 880 internalstorage array.The

Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 11b. Determine if a console login session can be established through a ttyaconnection.If a working console connectio

12 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 20016. Use the POST and OpenBoot diagnostics tools to diagnose system problems.When the system initiat

Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 13Documentation ErrataCorrection to the Motherboard Fan Tray RemovalProcedureThe procedure “How to Remove a Motherbo

PleaseRecycleCopyright 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303-4900 U.S.A. All rights reserved.This product or document

14 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001Correction to the Motherboard Fan TrayInstallation ProcedureThe procedure “How to Install a Mother

Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 15Correction to FC-AL Disk Cage InstallationProcedureThe procedure “How to Install the FC-AL Disk Cage” as documente

16 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001The table for CPU Side Components transposes the part numbers for items 2though 4. The corrected p

Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 172. Allow the system to remain at the ok prompt for at least 10 minutes to ensure thatthe two backplanes are loaded

18 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001Correction to Displaying POST ResultsThe command for displaying POST results in the Sun Fire 880 S

Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 19# ifconfig hme2:1 plumb# ifconfig hme2:1 upSee the Sun Fire 880 Dynamic Reconfiguration User’s Guide for more info

20 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001Sun Fire 880 hardware watchdog feature does notwork with Solaris 8 (BugID 4374518)The hardware wat

Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 21Empty fan tray generates fault messages in theRSC event log (BugID 4470063)On a Sun Fire 880 system running Remote

22 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001SunVTS dpmtest fails on dual-loop internalstorage array (BugID 4487855)If you use SunVTS 4.4 softw

Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 23receiving power. To determine if a fan is faulty, check its fan speed displayed in theprtdiag output. A fan speed

Contents iiiContentsProduct Name Equivalence 1Document Revision History 1Available Online Documentation 2System Software Requirements 2Required And Re

24 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001Sun Expert3D-Lite PCI graphics accelerator cardhangs system (BugID 4474181)The Sun Expert3D-Lite™

Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 25Hot-plug function is not disabled when only onepower supply exists (BugID 4408237)A Sun Fire 880 system with only

26 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 20012. Use the output from the POST tests to identify the failing DIMM.For more information about disp

Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 27pci4 display/hp connected configured okpci5 pci-pci/hp connected configured okpci6 mult/hp conn

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iv Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001Correction to Disk Drive Installation Procedure 14Correction to FC-AL Disk Cage Installation Proce

Contents vprtdiag reports fan failures as ENABLED with a speed of 0(BugID 4431194) 22hsfs: hsnode table full (BugIDs 4082275, 4475306) 23Intermittent

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1Sun Fire 880 Product NotesProduct Name EquivalenceThe official released name for this system is Sun Fire™ V880. Any reference to SunFire 880 on the p

2 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001Available Online DocumentationA complete set of online documentation supporting Sun Fire 880 server

Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 3Required And Recommended SoftwarePatchesThis section lists software patches for the Sun Fire 880 server. You can ob