Page 3 - Contents; Required Software Patches for Solaris 8 10/01
Contents iii Contents Product Name Equivalence 1 Document Revision History 1 Available Online Documentation 2 System Software Requirements 2 Required And Recommended Software Patches 3 Required Software Patches for Solaris 8 10/01 3 Required Software Patches for Solaris 8 07/01 4 Highly Recommended ...
Page 4 - Open Issues
iv Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001 Correction to Disk Drive Installation Procedure 14 Correction to FC-AL Disk Cage Installation Procedure 15 Correction to FRU Part Numbers 15 Ordering DIMMs 15 Part Number Corrections 15 Correction to Cabling Instructions for Loop B PCI FC-AL Data ...
Page 5 - prtdiag
Contents v prtdiag reports fan failures as ENABLED with a speed of 0 (BugID 4431194) 22 hsfs: hsnode table full (BugIDs 4082275, 4475306) 23 Intermittent picld errors during power supply hot-plug (BugID 4431165) 23 Sun Expert3D-Lite PCI graphics accelerator card hangs system (BugID 4474181) 24 CPU/M...
Page 7 - Sun Fire 880 Product Notes; Product Name Equivalence
1 Sun Fire 880 Product Notes Product Name Equivalence The official released name for this system is Sun Fire™ V880. Any reference to SunFire 880 on the product, in the system documentation, or in software refers to theSun Fire V880. Both names can be considered equivalent and are interchangeable. Do...
Page 8 - Available Online Documentation
2 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001 Available Online Documentation A complete set of online documentation supporting Sun Fire 880 servers is availableat the following URL: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs Check this site periodically for the latest revisions of S...
Page 9 - web site at the following URL:; Note –
Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 3 Required And Recommended SoftwarePatches This section lists software patches for the Sun Fire 880 server. You can obtain thesepatches from your authorized Sun service provider or by downloading them fromthe SunSolve Online SM web site at the following URL: http://...
Page 10 - Required Software Patches for Solaris 8 07/01
4 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001 Required Software Patches for Solaris 8 07/01 Note – The following list represents required patches specific to the Sun Fire 880 system with the Solaris 8 07/01 operating system installed. These patches areavailable as of the publication date of th...
Page 11 - Highly Recommended Sun Fire 880 Patch; driver enables a
Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 5 Highly Recommended Sun Fire 880 Patch This patch is not OS-dependant. Included in this firmware upgrade are enhancedOpenBoot™ tools for service providers. The patch is recommended for Sun Fire 880systems that have installed versions of OBP earlier than 4.4.7. For ...
Page 12 - Microsystems) do not support the; Sun Fire 880 Dynamic Reconfiguration Guide
6 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001 Note – Many third-party drivers (those purchased from vendors other than Sun Microsystems) do not support the DDI_DETACH function. Verify any third-party PCI card functionality and hot-plug compatibility with the third-party card’s vendorprior to u...
Page 13 - OpenBoot Firmware Documentation; OpenBoot 4.x Command Reference Manual; Some versions of Solaris software do not include the OpenBoot 4.x; FC-AL Disk Drive Firmware Issues; inquiry
Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 7 OpenBoot Firmware Documentation The Sun Fire 880 server uses OpenBoot™ 4.x system firmware. Instructions for usingthe firmware are provided in the OpenBoot 4.x Command Reference Manual , an online version of which is included with the OpenBoot Collection AnswerBoo...
Page 14 - luxadm; SunSolve Online web site at
8 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001 Installing Sun Fire 880 FC-AL BackplaneFirmware A backup image of the Sun Fire 880 FC-AL backplane firmware is provided on theComputer Systems Supplement CD for your specific Solaris release. In the unlikelyevent that the firmware on a Sun Fire 880...
Page 15 - Place the security keyswitch in the Normal position.; subcommand to begin the flash update process:; is the location of the firmware image on the system disk—in this; For more information about the; continuing with this procedure.
Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 9 1. As superuser, type the following command to bring the system to single-user mode: 2. Place the security keyswitch in the Normal position. The Locked keyswitch position prevents unauthorized programming of the systemflash PROMs. 3. Type the following luxadm subc...
Page 16 - using the; init; Place the security keyswitch in the Locked position.; System Hang Recovery Procedure; Sun Fire 880 Server Owner ’s Guide; a. Determine if any network activity is functional via the; ping; command and if
10 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001 Where enclosure_name is the enclosure name assigned to the Sun Fire 880 internal storage array. The command output shows the status of each SSC100 in the system. The followingis an excerpt of sample output for a dual-backplane system. Verify that ...
Page 18 - Sun Fire 880 Server Service Manual; If the system is able to reboot, review the contents of; Warning messages about any hardware or software components.; Supported Sun Rack for the Sun Fire 880; Caution –; As stated in the
12 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001 6. Use the POST and OpenBoot diagnostics tools to diagnose system problems. When the system initiates the startup sequence, it will run POST and OpenBootdiagnostics during system startup. For more information about these tools, see“Diagnostics and...
Page 19 - Documentation Errata; The procedure “How to Remove a Motherboard Fan Tray” in the; Loosen the captive screw on the fan tray you are going to remove.; Slide the fan tray you are removing out of the system.
Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 13 Documentation Errata Correction to the Motherboard Fan Tray RemovalProcedure The procedure “How to Remove a Motherboard Fan Tray” in the Sun Fire 880 Server Service Manual is incorrect. On systems configured with the redundant cooling option, removing motherboard...
Page 20 - Correction to Disk Drive Installation Procedure
14 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001 Correction to the Motherboard Fan TrayInstallation Procedure The procedure “How to Install a Motherboard Fan Tray” in the Sun Fire 880 Server Service Manual is incorrect. On systems configured with the redundant cooling fans option, installing mot...
Page 21 - Correction to FRU Part Numbers; Ordering DIMMs; Appendix A of the
Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 15 Correction to FC-AL Disk Cage InstallationProcedure The procedure “How to Install the FC-AL Disk Cage” as documented in the Sun Fire 880 Server Service Manual is incomplete. The following task should be included as Step 9c: 9c. If a Sun StorEdge PCI Dual Fibre Ch...
Page 22 - The correct cabling information is provided below.; system up to the; ok
16 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001 The table for CPU Side Components transposes the part numbers for items 2though 4. The corrected part numbers are as follows. Correction to Cabling Instructions for Loop B PCIFC-AL Data Cable The cabling instructions for the Loop B PCI FC-AL data ...
Page 23 - Allow the system to remain at the; Platform Notes: Using
Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 17 2. Allow the system to remain at the ok prompt for at least 10 minutes to ensure that the two backplanes are loaded with the same version of firmware. The system automatically synchronizes the firmware versions between the twobackplanes. 3. After the required wai...
Page 24 - POST; Owner ’s Guide; ifconfig; Reconfiguration User ’s Guide
18 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001 Correction to Displaying POST Results The command for displaying POST results in the Sun Fire 880 Server Service Manual is incorrect. To display the results of POST testing, type show-post-results at the ok prompt. The following is an abbreviated ...
Page 25 - Sun Fire 880 Dynamic Reconfiguration User ’s Guide; Server Owner ’s Guide; cfgadm; Workaround
Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 19 # ifconfig hme2:1 plumb # ifconfig hme2:1 up See the Sun Fire 880 Dynamic Reconfiguration User ’s Guide for more information on Sun Fire 880 hot-plug operations. Note – Not all PCI cards support PCI hot-plug operations. See the Sun Fire 880 Server Owner ’s Guide ...
Page 26 - Recommended Software Patches” on page 3.; Issuing the; On Sun Fire 880 systems, issuing the
20 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001 Sun Fire 880 hardware watchdog feature does notwork with Solaris 8 (BugID 4374518) The hardware watchdog feature does not work on Sun Fire 880 systems running theSolaris 8 operating environment. For a description of the hardware watchdogmechanism,...
Page 27 - picld
Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 21 Empty fan tray generates fault messages in theRSC event log (BugID 4470063) On a Sun Fire 880 system running Remote System Control 2.1 software deliveredwith the Solaris 8 7/01 operating environment, for any fan tray bay that isunoccupied, RSC will continually lo...
Page 28 - SunVTS; dpmtest; Software Patches” on page 3.; Wrong packet error seen by loopback subtest in; C interfaces, a rare race condition exists in which
22 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001 SunVTS dpmtest fails on dual-loop internal storage array (BugID 4487855) If you use SunVTS 4.4 software on a Sun Fire 880 system that includes a SunStorEdge PCI Dual Fibre Channel Host Adapter card to control Loop B of theinternal storage array, t...
Page 29 - Intermittent
Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 23 receiving power. To determine if a fan is faulty, check its fan speed displayed in the prtdiag output. A fan speed of zero should be interpreted as a fan failure. Also, any fan failure will light the fan tray’s Fault LED and the System Fault and ThermalFault LEDs...
Page 31 - ce; a. Place the security keyswitch to the Diagnostics position.
Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 25 Hot-plug function is not disabled when only onepower supply exists (BugID 4408237) A Sun Fire 880 system with only one working power supply is an unsupportedconfiguration. A system configured with the minimum two power supplies (thenon-redundant configuration) ma...
Page 32 - Use the output from the POST tests to identify the failing DIMM.; Sun Fire 880 Server Service Manual.; If POST displays the memory error as an; error, then POST will not identify; MTAG; DIMM errors on the Sun Fire 880” on SunSolve Online web site.; Device PCI8_CARD inserted; Dynamic Reconfiguration User ’s Guide
26 Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes • December 2001 2. Use the output from the POST tests to identify the failing DIMM. For more information about displaying POST results, see “How to Use POSTDiagnostics” in the Sun Fire 880 Server Service Manual. 3. If POST displays the memory error as an MTAG err...
Page 33 - When using c
Sun Fire 880 Server Product Notes 27 pci4 display/hp connected configured ok pci5 pci-pci/hp connected configured ok pci6 mult/hp connected configured ok pci7 unknown connected configured ok pci8 ethernet/hp connected configured ok Currently, the attachment points for PCI cards on Sun Fire 880 syste...
