Gary Mills <mills@cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
> In <fkbk9a$t3n$1@aioe.org> "Colin B." <cbigam@somewhereelse.nucleus.com> writes:
>
>>Gary Mills <mills@cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> My V480 did the same thing yesterday, although it's only been once so
>>> far. It only has the two internal disks and a single fibre-channel
>>> controller. Is this something that happens to V480s when they get
>>> to be a few years old?
>
>>Sun has released a FIN recently about the V480s. CPU board B may not be
>>seated correctly, and lead to general flakiness. We've seen problems with
>>three or four machines that have been fixed by reseating the boards, so
>>it might be worth trying.
>
> Hmm, that's interesting. This V480 went into service three years ago.
> Only in the past few days has it been logging a few SCSI errors and
> one fibre-channel loop condition. Otherwise, it's been quite stable.
> I wonder if the CPU board would work itself loose, or something like
> that. Is there a number for this FIN?

The FIN is 102910, but only available to partners. The summary is:
"Marginal seating of Sun Fire V490 and V480 CPU/Memory boards is
causing hard to diagnose non-fatal, fatal, and CPU/Memory board
power-on faults."

I would imagine it could cause SCSI and FCAL issues as well, at least
potentially.

Colin