[geeks] SF280R hardware problems

Scott Howard geeks at sunhelp.org
Fri Jan 4 05:21:21 CST 2002


On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:50:19PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> Anybody know of a recurring issue with US-III 750Mhz CPUs going bad in
> SunFire 280Rs?  Two boxes, two bad CPUs, in less than a month....

No problems here. We've probably got about a dozen CPUs in various 280R's
and we haven't had a single failure yet.

The 750Mhz's in the 6800/4800 were a different matter (24 CPUs all up, 3
CPU failures before we got them all replaced with 900Mhz's).

  Scott.



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