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Sun Fire V100 - Max IDE disk size?

Postby BertieBigBollox@gmail.com » Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:33:43 GMT 

Cant find anything in the documentation about this...

Anyone got any idea what the max disk size that the V100 will
recognise is? If there is a max...
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Re: Sun Fire V100 - Max IDE disk size?

Postby Richard B. Gilbert » Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:08:03 GMT 



Don't count on more than 127 GB unless you find it written somewhere in 
Sun's documentation.  It's a limitation built in to Sun's IDE 
controllers and AFAIK, it applies to ALL Sun IDE.
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Re: Sun Fire V100 - Max IDE disk size?

Postby Doug McIntyre » Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:07:57 GMT 

"Richard B. Gilbert" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > writes:




No, it applies to all Sun IDE controllers released before PC system
makers started doing ATA-6 that supported more than 127GB drives.
Just like in the PC world. 

But, the V100 is an older system that was pre ATA-6, so yes, it won't
support drives bigger.
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1.sun fire v100 problem 

Dear all


my client is facing one problem , in his v100 server

actualy this server has no vga card , so only way to access this
server is through lom serial port , but when i connect it through lom
it is showing some junk type character which cannot be understood,,
so finaly i decided to change the motherbord

so  can u please me the instruction how to perform that steps ,

thanks in advance

2.FS: Sun Fire v100 on Ebay - 2 of them -like new -still under warranty

3.sun fire v100 problem 

On Sep 7, 12:54 am, ashu < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > wrote:
> Dear all
>
> my client is facing one problem , in his v100 server
>
> actualy this server has no vga card , so only way to access this
> server is through lom serial port , but when i connect it through lom
> it is showing some junk type character which cannot be understood,,
> so finaly i decided to change the motherbord
>
> so  can u please me the instruction how to perform that steps ,
>
> thanks in advance

what steps??? how to replace the motherboard or connect to the LOM?

4.boot sun fire v100 from an external USB cd/dvd 

I found bunch of posts but really none of them seemed to have said if
it's possible, and if so how.

I am trying to install a v100 from a DVD rom, but sonce the box comes
with cd only and no scsi, I am trying to figure it out.
Yes, I know I can install from cd, or boot of the network.. my point
is judt somply knowing if I can do it from USB attached CD/DVD.
(It's an ide cdrom put into an external usb2/firewire case).

Of course I cannot see it in probe-scsi or ide, or any other (sifting
usb did not show anythng to probe all usb), however it shows just fine
when I boot into the OS (Sol9) (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0 - as opposed to c0 for
internals).

I tried booting off of /pci@1f,0/usb@a/storage@1:0
The way I got this path was playing between devalias and ls...

Well.. it is not working.

I even tried to dd the dvd to c1t2d0s0 (or s2) to see if then I could
trick the os to think it was a CD.. well. sure enough this did not
work...

So I am back to trying USB.. any ideas/suggestions would be greatly
appreciated...
it just does not seem it should ba quite that hard, but of couse SUN
does not support it so I am on my own and hate not knowing how to do
it.

Thx in advance for any ideas.

5.Need help with Sun Fire V100 

Hi,
I bought Sun Fire V100 from EBay but seems to be defective. But I can't seem
to find what's wrong with it.
First couple of times it booted nicely and I thought everything is fine.
Wishful thinking.
Then it started to hang on boot. booting device ... args ...
For example it boots fine, and when I do reboot it ends up booting from net
(in loop) although need to boot from disk.
I posted some outputs that can help someone to conclude what is wrong.

/*************
/* I turned on debug mode from PROM.
/*************
ok setenv diag-switch? true
ok reset-all

/*************************************
/* Almost everytime when server boots it ends up booting from network.
/* disk is same as disk2
/* PROM is defined to boot from disk (alias disk is same as disk2
/* disk is device2, seen from probe-ide
/**************************************
boot-device           disk                        disk net

Environment monitoring: disabled
Boot device: net  File and args:
External loopback test -- Did not receive expected loopback packet.
Retrying Network Initialization.
Using Onboard Transceiver -
...

ok reset
Processor Speed = 500 MHz
Baud rate is 9600
8 Data bits, 1 stop bits, no parity (configured from lom)

Firmware CORE  Sun Microsystems, Inc.
@(#) core 1.0.14 2001/11/07 17:16
Software Power ON
Verifying NVRAM...Done
Bootmode is 0
MCR0 = 36a0bc06
MCR1 = c0804000
MCR2 = fc0bb00
MCR3 = 333
Ecache Size = 256 KB
Clearing E$ Tags Done
Clearing I/D TLBs Done
Probing memory
Done
MEMBASE=0x60000000
MEMSIZE=0x10000000
Clearing memory...Done
Turning ON MMUs Done
Copy ROM to RAM (154112 bytes) Done
Orig PC=0x1fff0007ef0  New PC=0xf0f07f48
Processor Speed=500MHz
Looking for Dropin FVM ... found
Decompressing Client Done
Transferring control to Client...
Reset Control: BXIR:0 BPOR:0 SXIR:0 SPOR:1 POR:0
Probing upa at 1f,0 pci
Probing upa at 0,0 SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe (256 Kb)
Loading Support Packages: kbd-translator
Loading onboard drivers:
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 7  isa dma rtc power SUNW,lomh serial serial
   flashprom
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 3  pmu i2c temperature dimm dimm i2c-nvram
   idprom motherboard-fru ppm beep fan-control
lomp
Probing Memory Bank #0   0 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #1   0 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #2 256 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #3 256 Megabytes
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 7
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 3
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device c  ethernet
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 5  ethernet
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device a  usb
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device d  ide disk cdrom
todm5819 Sun Fire V100 (UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 4.0, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #52897725.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:27:27:bd, Host ID: 832727bd.

Environment monitoring: disabled
Boot device: net  File and args:
Using Onboard Transceiver - Link Up.
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet



/* couple of times it reported memory errors, it hapans rarely but ...
 i tried swapping dram modules, pulling out one module and ... */

Core Memory Test
Clearing memory...including Unix retained memory...Done
Turning ON MMUs Done
Copy ROM to RAM (154112 bytes) Done
Orig PC=0x1fff0007ef0  New PC=0xf0f07f48
Processor Speed=500MHz
Memory Data Line Test
Memory Addr Line w/ Ecache Test

**********************************************
PSTATE=0000000000000414  TBA=00000000f0f00000    DCU
Control=000000000000000f
AFSR=0000000020010000    AFAR=00000000400042d0   PIL=000000000000000f
I-SFSR=0000000000ea00b8  D-SFSR=000000000070008f D-SFAR=00000000f0f62640
TL=0001         TT=0030  TPC=00000000f0f0dd98    TNPC=00000000f0f0dd9c
**********************************************
[0 e9 1 9]  ERROR: Fail on address line, address = 0x0, index=0x40

************************
STATUS  = FAILED
MESSAGE = Memory Addr Blk Test failed
SUSPECT = DIMM0

[0 e8 1 9]  ERROR: Fail on memory region = 0x2
Looking for Dropin FVM ... found
Decompressing Client Done
Transferring control to Client...
Reset Control: BXIR:0 BPOR:1 SXIR:0 SPOR:0 POR:0
Probing upa at 1f,0 pci
Probing upa at 0,0 SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe (256 Kb)
Loading Support Packages: kbd-translator
Loading onboard drivers:
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 7  isa dma rtc power SUNW,lomh serial serial
   flashprom
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 3  pmu i2c temperature dimm dimm i2c-nvram
   idprom motherboard-fru ppm beep fan-control
lomp
Probing Memory Bank #0   0 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #1   0 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #2 256 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #3 256 Megabytes
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 7
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 3
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device c  ethernet
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 5  ethernet
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device a  usb
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device d  ide disk cdrom
todm5819 Sun Fire V100 (UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 4.0, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #52897725.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:27:27:bd, Host ID: 832727bd.

Environment monitoring: disabled
Power On Self Test Failed.  Cause: Memory Addr Blk Test failed



Below are some outputs of commands I issued.
/********************
/* here it seems that it recognizes disk and cdrom */
/********************
ok probe-ide
  Device 0  ( Primary Master )
         Not Present

  Device 1  ( Primary Slave )
         Not Present

  Device 2  ( Secondary Master )
          ATA Model: ST340016A

  Device 3  ( Secondary Slave )
         Removable ATAPI Model: SR244W

/******************************
/* disks are recognized
/*******************************
ok show-disks
a) /pci@1f,0/ide@d/cdrom
b) /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk
c) /pci@1f,0/isa@7/SUNW,lomh@0,8010

/**************************
/* obdiaf and test-all reports everything is fine
/****************************
ok test-all
Testing /pci@1f,0/ide@d
Testing /pci@1f,0/usb@a
Testing /pci@1f,0/ethernet@5
Testing /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c
Testing /pci@1f,0/pmu@3
Testing /pci@1f,0/pmu@3/i2c@0,0/i2c-nvram@0,a0
Testing /pci@1f,0/isa@7/serial@0,2e8
Testing /pci@1f,0/isa@7/serial@0,3f8
[Used as Console]
Testing /pci@1f,0/isa@7/SUNW,lomh@0,8010

/********************************+
/* aliases of devices
/******************************
ok devalis
disk                     /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0
rtc                      /pci@1f,0/isa@7/rtc@0,70
usb                      /pci@1f,0/usb@a
flash                    /pci@1f,0/isa@7/flashprom@1f,0
lom                      /pci@1f,0/isa@7/SUNW,lomh@0,8010
i2c-nvram                /pci@1f,0/pmu@3/i2c@0,0/i2c-nvram@0,aa
net1                     /pci@1f,0/ethernet@5
dload1                   /pci@1f,0/ethernet@5:,
dload                    /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c:,
net0                     /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c
net                      /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c
cdrom                    /pci@1f,0/ide@d/cdrom@3,0:f
disk3                    /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@3,0
disk2                    /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0
disk1                    /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@1,0
disk0                    /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@0,0
ide                      /pci@1f,0/ide@d
floppy                   /pci@1f,0/isa@7/dma/floppy
ttyb                     /pci@1f,0/isa@7/serial@0,2e8
ttya                     /pci@1f,0/isa@7/serial@0,3f8


/*******************************
/* when I try to boot from disk2 (from probe-ide I assume disk2 is right
disk device to boot from)
/* it reports error. What does that mean ??????????????????
/******************************
ok boot disk2
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0  File and args:
Loading ufs-file-system package 1.4 04 Aug 1995 13:02:54.
FCode UFS Reader 1.11 97/07/10 16:19:15.
Loading: /platform/SUNW,UltraAX-i2/ufsboot
Loading: /platform/sun4u/ufsboot
Fast Data Access MMU Miss
             ^^^^

What confuses me, whatever I try to boot from, it always end up trying to
boot from network.
There is something wrong, but I assume it can't be all: disk, cdrom, memory.

Please help, this is beyond me.
thanks,
jura

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