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Sun Fire V215 and V245 Servers Product Notes

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Contents

Preface

1. Sun Fire V215 and V245 Servers Product Notes

Shipping Kit Contents

Operating System and Required Patches

Software Updates

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Update Your Sun Fire Server Using the Command-Line Interface

ALOM Updates

RJ-45 to DB-25 Pinouts

Hardware and Software Issues

Disabled DIMMs Cause Extra DIMM Entries in prtdiag Output (CR 6422484)

PCI Components Show Extra Entries in the prtdiag Output (CR 6422512)

NOTICE: bge0: ddi_intr_get_supported_types() in System Messages (CR 6428769)

PCI1 Slot node-id in FRU Maps to Two FRU Parents in Platform Tree (CR 6431886)

BGE Link Breaks IPMP Test Suite (CR 6436499)

Banner Displays Incorrect Amount of Memory (CR 6449210)

DVD Drive Warning (CR 6440674)

WARNING: px1: spurious interrupt from ino 0x8 (CR 6470835)

USB Does Not Respond (CR 6465319)

Astec PSU 300-1945-02 Causes Spurious Errors During ALOM Boot and System POST (CR 6557962)

FIOB.T_AMB Status Erroneously Reported Critical Prior to poweron After an AC Power Cycle

Documentation Errata

Sun Fire V215 and V245 Servers Getting Started Guide

Maximum Ambient Operating Temperature

Power Calculator

General Power Figures

PCI Card Features

Hard Drive Status Indicators

Sun Fire V215 and V245 Servers Administration Guide

Firmware Update

Terminal Server Connection

input-device and output-device Values

2. Managing Disk Volumes

RAID Information

RAID Technology

RAID 0 - Disk Striping

RAID 1 - Disk Mirroring

RAID Volume and Drive Status

Physical Disk Slot Numbers, Physical Device Names, and Logical Device Names

RAID Operations With the Solaris OS Commands

Creating a Disk Stripe With the Solaris OS Commands

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Create a Disk Stripe With the Solaris OS Commands

Creating a Disk Mirror With the Solaris OS Commands

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Create a Disk Mirror With the Solaris OS Commands

Deleting a Disk Mirror With the Solaris OS Commands

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Delete a Disk Mirror With the Solaris OS Commands

Updating the RAID Controller Firmware

RAID Operations With the OpenBoot PROM Commands

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Recover a RAID Volume

Labeling a Volume

procedure iconsmall spaceTo Label a Volume