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RE: What Sun Microsystems Hardware do you have? - mamorim01 - 11-05-2018

I got the adapter cable to connect to the RJ45 serial management port on the v240 earlier today, and I successfully managed to boot it to OBP after a bit of fiddling around with parts. There seems to be an alert which I have been unable to identify or address so far, but it otherwise seems to pass all init tests with no remarkable issues. I will install the second CPU tomorrow and will start troubleshooting the parts which I got from the Blade 2500. With a bit of luck, I should hopefully manage to get a better picture of the condition of these parts as somebody suggested before.



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Booting to OBP

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RE: What Sun Microsystems Hardware do you have? - jpstewart - 11-06-2018

(11-05-2018, 09:03 PM)mamorim01 Wrote:  There seems to be an alert which I have been unable to identify or address so far

Well, it mentions "MB.BAT.V_BAT" which suggests to me "MotherBoard battery voltage".  So it's probably just a matter of replacing the coin cell battery with a fresh one.

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RE: What Sun Microsystems Hardware do you have? - mamorim01 - 11-06-2018

(11-06-2018, 08:22 PM)jpstewart Wrote:  

(11-05-2018, 09:03 PM)mamorim01 Wrote:  There seems to be an alert which I have been unable to identify or address so far

Well, it mentions "MB.BAT.V_BAT" which suggests to me "MotherBoard battery voltage".  So it's probably just a matter of replacing the coin cell battery with a fresh one.

Yup. That did the trick! The cell battery was indeed dry. I had just dropped the processor in the socket so I was a bit worried that it might have to do with an incorrect voltage setting driven by a motherboard jumper, but it turns out there is little to no configuration needed on that front.

I am pleasantly surprised at how useful the diagnostic tools are, once you get in detail. One of the four DIMM modules I brought over from the Blade 2500 is definitely faulty, the system was able to pinpoint the exact location without a sweat.

Still pending to install the second CPU as I do not have a spare heatsink, but it boots!

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RE: What Sun Microsystems Hardware do you have? - darkhelmet02 - 11-12-2018

Although the 2500's go for way too much money now, the memory kits available for them are relatively cheap, they aren't too difficult to find online

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RE: What Sun Microsystems Hardware do you have? - mamorim01 - 11-12-2018

I believe you are correct, they are fairly common PC2100 DDR modules. My 2500 suffers from other ailments besides that, I am afraid. Booting as somebody suggested with just a CPU (no memory, cards, etc) should trigger a pattern of recognized speaker tones and a cascade of error messages from the console, but I get none of that.

The Sunfire v240 is starting to look quite nice, and it ended up being quite affordable. It is a veritable noise source, though.

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RE: What Sun Microsystems Hardware do you have? - darkhelmet02 - 11-12-2018

(11-12-2018, 07:55 PM)mamorim01 Wrote:  The Sunfire v240 is starting to look quite nice, and it ended up being quite affordable. It is a veritable noise source, though.

I've heard a lot of good things about the v240, I hope it works out for you! I have to imagine it gets quite loud, those UltraSparcs need all the airflow they can get!

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RE: What Sun Microsystems Hardware do you have? - maverickbna - 12-31-2018

I only wish I still had my old Sun gear. Unfortunately I've lost everything in several moves. My previous collection includes:

SPARCstation 4, gave it a 36GB SCSI disk and a slim CD-ROM drive and installed Solaris 8 on it. Ran an NIS and NFS server to a Linux box.
Ultra 5 440MHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, TSSTcorp DVD-ROM, Solaris 8, then 9, then 10.
Netra t1
Netra 20 (rebranded Sun Fire 280R)
Fire V125
Fire V240
Blade 2500 Red
Fire X2200 M2
Fire X4200

My uncle might still have my Sun Blade 2500 Red. If so, I hope to eventually get it back from him. I'd like to work more with Solaris.

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I have a DVD image of the Sun System Handbook. Has complete teardowns of systems, complete with part numbers and specifications. Let me know if anyone wants it. Really helpful for the Sun collector.

Question to mods: Would sharing this be allowed? I don't know how its license is handled, since it was distributed to Sun technicians and field engineers.

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RE: What Sun Microsystems Hardware do you have? - dexter1 - 01-01-2019

(12-31-2018, 10:00 AM)maverickbna Wrote:  Question to mods: Would sharing this be allowed? I don't know how its license is handled, since it was distributed to Sun technicians and field engineers.

It depends if the documentation or software is applicable for systems which still (can) have support contracts. If that is the case, rather not.

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RE: What Sun Microsystems Hardware do you have? - maverickbna - 01-01-2019

It doesn't have anything post-Oracle.

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RE: What Sun Microsystems Hardware do you have? - BackPlaner - 01-02-2019

Sparcstation Voyager 

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