[geeks] Sun Fire V210: A New Low in SPARC Servers?

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 04:56:41PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> At least, that's how it's supposed to work.  On all the machines I've
> tried so far, running "setupsc" followed by "resetsc" has resulted in a
> fully dead ALOM that hangs while loading itself from flash.  Sun came
> out today to replace the system board in one of the machines, but I'm
> apprehensive about trying this feature again without at least seeing if
> the ALOM firmware is as new as possible.  The service engineer pointed
> me at a jumper on the system board that's supposed to (but apparently
> doesn't) reset ALOM and the system NVRAM to recover from this condition.

We've had 2 or 3 V210s end up with completely dead LOM (or at least 
broken serial console); had to put framebuffers in them and use a graphics
console.

Let me know what you find out / how things end up, as I was considering
a V210 as the next sunhelp.org server if I can get one donated (as I 
cant afford an X2100).

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas