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Damon Getsman <dgetsman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have gotten a 'Hardware Power ON'
> from it, about 10 minutes ago, and nothing else as of yet. The
> Solaris 10 Sparc CDRom #1 is in the drive and awaiting some semblance
> of a booting procedure or the 'OK' prompt for me to type 'boot cdrom'
> at right now.
>
> I've heard these machines take awhile to boot up. I didn't know it'd
> be this long. Wonder if something is fried in the hardware.

Could be. If the box is filled (8CPU and 8GB of RAM), then startup
takes a long time (and there's a setting or two to modify how much
checking is done during powerup). But for a smaller machine, it
shouldn't take 10 minutes to see something on the console.

If you never got anything, you can try powering off and then putting the
keyswitch in the diag position (wavy line) and see if you get additional
output.

Most failures will spit something to the serial line though....

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On Apr 4, 2:38 pm, ddun...@taos.com (Darren Dunham) wrote:

> Completely filled with disks, you can use it as a paperweight as well.
> Otherwise, it's probably too light. ;-)

*laugh*

> I know some folks that would pull all but one CPU/mem board out to do
> builds and configurations because it was much faster to boot. Now that
> they're as old as they are (and not under support), I don't recommend
> unplugging the boards without a good reason.

Well I got it to start handling all of that a lot better now. There
was a networking conflict that was fouling up things for me a bit, and
I didn't have the fiber run to the disks in back, either. It still
takes quite awhile, but not the eons that it was taking before.

Installation is going great. I'd probably be done by now but my boss
walked by where I've got this sucker strung up in a hazardous
temporary fashion and tripped on the power cord thus unplugging the
machine about 50% of the way through.

Multiple times through the process is a great way to get to know a
system.

Thanks for helping me get this sucker running!

-Damon Getsman

In <ac83bca7-0109-49d4-93cc-4530184bbee7@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> Damon Getsman <dgetsman@gmail.com> writes:

>Which key are you speaking of when you say turn it to diagnostic
>mode? The only key that I've seen on this machine is the front panel
>lock.

It's on the front panel keyswitch. diag is the heartbeat squiggle, and
is the third position (between "Run" and "Secure").
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On 2008-04-04, Damon Getsman <dgetsman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 4, 10:52 am, Greg Mortensen <thevis...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> In <91345091-1146-462c-98f8-24713e720...@m71g2000hse.googlegroups.com> Damon Getsman <dgets...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 10 minutes isn't long.
>>
>> Try turning the key to diagnostic mode and see if you get more output.
>
> *laugh*
>
> I actually got through everything; the longest part was waiting for it
> to attempt configuration of the network interfaces. It ran through
> qfe0-3 and hme0, each one taking about 10-15 min apiece to determine
> that it wasn't connected.

O.K.

> Now I'm in the Solaris installation CD working on network
> configuration.

O.K. Without a network cable connected, you may have to fight it
to get the installation complete. With it connected, it will be easier.
(Based on other Sun machines, not with any experience with this one.)

> I've hooked it up to the hub that I'm on, but there
> are 5 ethernet ports to choose from. Four are in a straight line (on
> the same board that has the serial ports A & B. And there is another
> one labelled TP with the < . . . >. Once I figure out what interface
> each of them are I should be able to get a little bit further with
> configuration here.

O.K. The one labeled TP with "< . . . >" is probably the hme0
which is apparently the built in one. That is the one which I would
choose to use.

Looking at the FEH, I see the CPU/Memory module has only what
appears to be three LEDs, and nothing else on the panel.

The clock board has three DB-25 connectors -- one called "JTAG"
(no idea what this one is) and TTYA and TTYP with the keyboard connector
between them.

The FC-AL interface board has four sockets for Fibre Channel.
(501-4820 or 595-4739).

Aha! This might be it. 501-2977 -- I/O board. Along the
bottom of the front panel are an MII connector (ethernet which I have
never used), then the 10BaseT/100BaseT twisted pair (which is presumably
the hme0), a 68-pin SCSI connector, and "A" and "B" (which look like the
possibly Fibre Channel intterfaces called OLC j0 and OLC 1). Above
those are three SBus slots (0, 1, and 2) which could indeed contain a
QFE board (probably your four qfe? ports) -- but there are no serial
ports on this one. Let's check the next.

501-4287 looks pretty much the same.

501-4266 looks similar, except that the sockets which were OLC ?
in the previous two are GBIC ? instead.

501-4883 the same as just above.

501-2749 -- back to QLC -- but with graphics features added.
Not sure where the monitor connects, or whether it is just
support for graphics features in other boards.

501-4288 -- as above -- with graphics

501-4884 -- GBIC again -- with graphics

501-3023, 401-4325 two PCI slots plus 68-pin SCSI and
10/100BaseT ethernet.

501-4881, 502-4926 same as above.

O.K. -- perhaps the OLC or the GBIC are acting as the serial
ports which you are using? I only see DB-25 serial ports on 501-4946 or
501-5365 clock boards, and they have no apparent ethernet sockets. I
guess that I would need to see this to be sure what we are talking
about. Or, I would need to download the manuals from Sun, which is
probably what you need to do instead.

> Which key are you speaking of when you say turn it to diagnostic
> mode? The only key that I've seen on this machine is the front panel
> lock.

Does this have more than on/off positions? I can't get enough
detail from the FEH. I know that my Sun Fire 280R has four positions.

On |
Diag
Locked lock image
Power off (|) (circle with vertical bar through gap at the top)

Well ... hopefully some of the other replies will have given you
what you need..

Good Luck,
DoN.

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