Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes
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3. Workstations Product Notes 3 Keyboard and Mouse Connections with Sun XVR 2500 When the workstations were first released the keyboard had to be connected to the back panels Later support was added so that the keyboard could be connected to the front panel USB ports However if you have installed a Sun XVR 2500 graphics accelerator in either PCIE1 or PCIE2 you must connect the keyboard to the back panel The mouse can be connected to the front panel USB connector 4 Supported Firmware and Software Versions The following firmware and software versions are supported in this release of the Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 workstations m Solaris 10 1 06 Operating System OS a Solaris 9 9 05 HW Operating System OS a Java Enterprise Systems Java ES 2005Q1 Software a Sun Management Center 3 6 Version 2 Add On Software Ultra 45 m Sun Management Center 3 6 Version 2 Update 1 Add on Software Ultra 25 m SunVTS 6 1 PS1 Note Sun Management Center downloads are available from https www sun com download Use the A Z Index to find the latest Sun Management Center Add on software Note Before installing any software onto a Sun Ultra 45 or Ultra 25 hard drive read the documentation for that software Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes January 2008 Required Patches This section describes the patches available for the Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 workstations Patches are available
4. digits matches or exceeds the required version your system has the proper patches already installed and no further action is required For example if patch 118822 23 or later is installed your system has the required version of this patch m If you do not see patch information listed for the queried patch or if the dash extension precedes the required version go to Step 2 For example if no version of the 118822 patch or a version with an extension of 22 or earlier is installed you must download and install the new patch 2 Goto http www sun com sunsolve to download the patches Using the SunSolve PatchFinder tool specify the base patch ID number the first six digits to access the current release of a patch 3 Follow the installation instructions provided in a specific patch s README file Note Additional information about the latest patches may be found at http sunsolve sun com Known Issues This section describes issues that are known to exist at the time of this release of the Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 workstations Correctable Fabric Errors Occur Between the Sun XVR 300 and PLX Switch Systems equipped with the Sun XVR 300 graphics accelerator might indicate that a correctable error has occurred This error is harmless and does not compromise data integrity To correct this issue append the following lines to the etc systen file set pcie pcie_aer_ce_mask 0x11C1 set pcie pcie_exp
5. graphics accelerators are supported Only one Sun XVR 100 is supported m Table 3 1 OpenBoot PROM Memory Checks and Actions m Table 12 2 OpenBoot PROM Messages and Their Meaning m Table B 4 Declared Noise Emissions ISO 9296 Examples m 9 3 1 1 fmdump v command a 9 3 2 1 fmadm config command m 9 3 3 Using the fmstat command m 12 3 2 OpenBoot Diagnostics Menus Section 3 2 4 Installing the DIMMS the Note was incorrect The correct Note is shown here 12 Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes January 2008 Note If your workstation has two CPUs and four DIMMs the workstation operates most efficiently with two DIMMs per CPU DIMM connectors are color coded blue and black You must install DIMMs in pairs in the same color connectors DIMMs in the same bank must be from the same vendor and must be identical in size Changes to Figures The following illustrations were corrected in the 11 version of the Sun Ultra 45 Workstation Service and Diagnostics Manual m Figure 3 1 Motherboard With Component Connections Motherboard connector J3 should connect to the I O module and connector J11 should connect to the DVD dual drive Figure 3 14 Reconnecting Cables to the Motherboard Figure 5 3 Removing the Power Supply Figure 5 4 Installing the Power Supply Figure 5 5 Power Supply Cable Connections at Motherboard and Hard Drive Backplane m Figure C 2 Sun Ultra 45 System D
6. 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes contain late breaking information about changes to Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 hardware software and documentation These product notes include m Hardware Information on page 1 m Supported Media Types for DVD Dual Drive on page 2 Supported Firmware and Software Versions on page 4 m Required Patches on page 5 m Known Issues on page 6 m Technical Support on page 9 Documentation Errata on page 9 Note All current Sun Ultra 45 documentation is available at http docs sun com app docs prod ultra work hic Hardware Information Note Before removing or installing any hardware software or firmware components read all of these product notes and the service documentation for that component Note Before removing or installing any hardware components read all of the contents of the Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Safety and Compliance Guide 819 2785 Supported Media Types for DVD Dual Drive The DVD dual drive is capable of reading and writing to the following media types Reads from CD 700 Mbyte a CD R 700 Mbyte CD RW 700 Mbyte DVD 4 7 Gbyte s DVD R 4 7 Gbyte DVD R 4 7 Gbyte m DVD RW 4 7 Gbyte Writes to a CD R 700 Mbyte CD RW 700 Mbyte s DVD R 4 7 Gbyte m DVD R 4 7 Gbyte m DVD RW 4 7 Gbyte Sun XVR 300 Graphics Accelerator Support Installing the Sun XVR 300 in
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8. Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes Sun Microsystems Inc www sun com Part No 819 1893 15 January 2008 Revision A Submit comments about this document at http www sun com hwdocs feedback Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems Inc 4150 Network Circle Santa Clara California 95054 U S A All rights reserved Sun Microsystems Inc has intellectual property rights relating to technology fat is described in this document In particular and without limitation these intellectual property rights may include one or more of the U S patents listed at http www sun com patents and one or more additional patents or pending patent applications in the U S and in other countries This document and the product to which it pertains are distributed under licenses restricting their use copying distribution and decompilation No part of the product or of this document may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of Sun and its licensors if any Third party software including font technology is copyrighted and licensed from Sun suppliers Parts of the e produet may be derived from Berkeley BSD systems licensed from the University of California UNIX is a registered trademark in the U S and in other countries exclusively licensed through X Open Company Ltd Sun Sun Microsystems the Sun logo Java docs sun com Solaris SunSolve NetBeans Sun VTS OpenBoot and Ultra are trademarks or
9. ected_ce_mask 0x11C1 Reboot the system to implement the changes 6 Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes January 2008 Sometimes after adding these lines to the etc system file the following message appears during Solaris boot sorry variable pcie expected ce mask is not defined in the kernel If you experience this error message delete the final line in the etc system file set pcie pcie expected ce mask 0x11C1 and reboot the system General Functionality Issues TABLE 1 lists features that are not available at the time of this release of the Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 workstations TABLE1 General Functionality Issues for the Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 workstations Feature Comment Gnome xmms audio player and This message is an xmms application error These warnings can safely be warning message ignored and will not affect audio functionality Sun XVR 2500 graphics In limited cases when a system with a Sun XVR 2500 graphics accelerator accelerator support card part number 375 3292 is transported without being repacked into the original system packaging the card might fail Use the original system packaging or equivalent to transport the system This limitation does not apply to Sun XVR 2500 graphics accelerators part number 375 3454 Optical media write support Cannot write to DVD RW media use DVD RW DVD R or DVD R media Install patch ID No 120887 05 or
10. edia at install the entire distribution plus cdrom sol_10_106_sparc s0 Solaris_10 Product OEM support plus all patches to Then reboot the system set up CPU power management Alternatively install Solaris 10 1 06 Entire Distribution plus OEM support from the Solaris 10 Media Kit plus patches Technical Support If you have any technical questions or issues that are not addressed in the Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 workstations documentation contact your local Sun Services representative For customers in the U S or Canada call 1 800 USA 4SUN 1 800 872 4786 For customers in the rest of the world find the World Wide Solution Center nearest you by visiting the web site http www sun com service contacting solution html Documentation Errata This section describes changes to the Sun Ultra 45 documentation For the latest release version of these and other manuals check the web site http docs sun com app docs prod ultra45 Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes 9 10 Sun Ultra 45 and Sun Ultra 25 Workstations Installation Guide 819 1892 10 Table 1 5 of this installation guide incorrectly describes the DB 9 serial ports as RS 432 The DB 9 ports are RS 232 Sun Ultra 45 Workstation Getting Started Guide 819 1894 11 The second row column two of Table 1 2 currently reads Choose Solaris 8 HW 5 03 Operating System release The text should read Choose Solaris 10 Operatin
11. from http www sun com sunsolve The following list of mandatory patches are loaded on the hard drive The mandatory patches must be installed on your workstation should you modify or reinstall the OS Other patches may be installed on your workstation as needed Mandatory patches 118557 03 or greater 118822 30 or greater 119582 04 or greater 119981 09 or greater 119578 18 or greater 120812 13 or greater 120928 07 or greater 121693 03 or greater 122081 01 or greater 121686 01 or greater For the Sun Ultra 45 Workstation 121687 01 or greater For the Sun Ultra 25 Workstation Recommend patches m 122027 01 or greater m 121302 01 or greater m 120887 05 or greater If you have cards installed in your workstation refer to the documentation and README files for each card to determine if additional patches need to be installed Note Before contacting Sun for support ensure that the mandatory patches are installed on your workstation In addition to installing these patches check the SunSolve web site on a regular basis for the availability of new patches V To Apply Patches to the Boot Disk 1 Determine whether the patches have been installed on your system For example using the showrev command type the following showrev p grep Patch 118822 Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes 5 m If you see patch information listed for the queried patch and the dash extension the last two
12. g System release Sun Ultra 45 Workstation Installation Guide 819 1891 10 The following information is supplemental Getting Started With Preinstalled Software NetBeans 4 1 NetBeans IDE 4 1 installation location opt netbeans 4 1 To run the IDE type opt netbeans 4 1 bin netbeans To uninstall the IDE type opt netbeans 4 1 _uninst uninstaller Java Studio Creator 2004Q2 Java Studio Creator 2004Q2 includes the following m Sun Java Studio Creator development environment m Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition m PointBase Embedded Database Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes January 2008 Installation location opt Creator Installation log opt Creator install log Application Server Information a Admin user name admin m Admin user password adminadmin m Admin port 14848 More port Information opt Creator system install properties Java Studio Enterprise 8 Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 will be installed in the following location opt sun jstudio_ent8 The following features are included a Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 a Sun Java System Application Server 8 1 UR2 Platform Edition Collaboration Runtime Installation Summary Total size 273 9 Mbyte Product opt sun jstudio_ent8 IDE opt sun jstudio_ent8 ide Application Server opt sun jstudio_ent8 AppServ8 1UR2 Application Server admin username admin Application Server admin password adminadmin Collabo
13. greater Ignore subsequent appearance of console message skipping finalizing Specific Issues and Workarounds TABLE 2 and TABLE 3 list known issues at the time of this release for which a change request ID CR ID formerly known as a bug ID has been assigned The tables also list possible workarounds for these issues Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes 7 For more information about these CRs visit the SunSolve web site TABLE2 Specific Issues and Related CR IDs for the Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations CR ID Description Workaround 6390526 USB 2 0 hub is lost to OpenBoot PROM after Solaris EHCI None driver is run This change will persist after rebooting 4905815 prtfru cannot get manufacturer or serial number information Power off and open system to from SPD region of commodity DIMMs made by manufacturers check DIMM manufacturer or who do not program the information in the DIMM SPD serial numbers segment 6453303 Rebooting the system using boot r may result in a kernel None panic if an Emulex based Fibre Channel card is installed in another PCI slot in a system with a Sun XVR 100 graphics accelerator installed 6317659 During a resume the system may hang To recover from the hang power cycle the system and type boot to avoid the resume cycle 6323576 System may intermittently fail if rebooted remotely with the Type reset all at the following issue port enable failed message on the console o
14. iagram Other Changes In the functional specifications chapter The declared acoustic levels are shown in TABLE 4 where 1B 10dB TABLE4 Declared Acoustic Levels Workstation Idle Operating Sun Ultra 45 5 0 B 5 1 B Sun Ultra 25 Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes 13 14 Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes January 2008
15. r console e Power cycle the system 6351895 You might see the following console message during a system Reboot or power cycle the boot system WARNING ppm_init_cb ppm domain domain_diskfet will be offline Should this happen some of the PC devices will be missing from the device tree including FRUID PROMs NOTE There is no functional impact except that hard disks will not be powered off in power saving mode 6360436 In power saving mode the front panel LED might not blink No workaround at this time 6368667 The front USB 2 0 port sometimes functions at USB 1 1 speeds No workaround at this time even when there are no USB 1 1 devices attached 6379460 No support for two Sun XVR 100 graphics accelerators in PCI X Only one Sun XVR 100 slots 8 Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes January 2008 graphics accelerator is supported in the system either PCI X slot at this time TABLE3 Specific Issues and Related CR IDs for the Sun Ultra 25 workstation CR ID Description Workaround 6415504 EPA compliance fails due to CPU Use Java Desktop System instead of CDE powering up if using CDE If you choose to use CDE add the following line to etc power conf and then run pmconfig 1M device thresholds SUNW UltraSPARC II1i 0 0 2147483647s 15m 6421603 If you reinstall Solaris 10 1 06 If you reinstall S10 1 06 and power management is not from install media you must working install package SUNWus u from the install m
16. ration Runtime opt sun jstudio_ent8 CollabRuntime Sun Studio 11 The installation and licensing log files are located at var sadm install logs To view a log file type at the prompt cd var sadm install logs more filename The installed product contains Update Notification a feature that checks a web service at Sun Microsystems and informs you of relevant updates Please refer to the Release Notes for further information If you installed any component of the Sun Studio 11 developer tools on a network server to send getting started information to the developers who use the network installed software you can use the email template Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes 11 install directory SUNWspro READMES email_template txt You should now set your PATH to include install directory SUNWspro bin For instance if lt install directory gt is opt the default for Bourne family shells sh bash ksh PATH opt SUNWspro bin PATH The export PATH for C family shells csh tcsh setenv PATH opt SUNWspro bin PATH Then to run the IDE type at the prompt sunstudio Sun Ultra 45 Workstation Service and Diagnostics Manual 819 1892 11 The following information has changed and been improved in the 11 version of the service manual For the latest version of this manual go to http docs sun com app docs prod ultra45 ws hic Changes to Tables a Table 1 1 Incorrectly states that two Sun XVR 100
17. the PCIEO Connector If you install a Sun XVR 300 graphics accelerator in the x8 connector PCI EO physical slot No 2 you must install OpenBoot PROM version 4 25 7 or a subsequent compatible release This is necessary for both the Ultra 25 and Ultra 45 workstations 2 Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 Workstations Product Notes January 2008 Number of Supported Graphics Accelerators and Minimum OS Versions Up to two Sun XVR 300 graphics accelerators are supported on Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25 workstations The graphics accelerators require Solaris 10 1 06 Operating System OS or later or Solaris 9 9 05 HW OS or later Note You must install packages needed for the card to run on Solaris 10 1 06 or later from the software CD ROM that ships with the Sun XVR 300 Refer to the Sun XVR 300 Graphics Accelerator User s Guide 819 6651 Improving Performance of Cards Installed in Connector PCIE2 If you are experiencing any problems with cards installed in connector PCIE2 perform the following procedures 1 Uninstall the software driver for the card 2 Move the card to connector PCIE1 3 Reinstall the software driver while the card is installed in connector PCIE1 Note You can leave the card in PCIE1 or move it back to PCIE2 Installing DIMMs in the Same Bank All DIMMs installed in the same bank must be from the same DIMM manufacturer and have the exact same size and configuration Sun Ultra 45 and Ultra 25
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