Sun Microsystems 880 manual

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Sun Fire™880 Server Product Notes

Part No. 806-6593-15

December 2001, Revision A

Contents

Main Please Recycle Contents Page Page Page Sun Fire 880 Product Notes Product Name Equivalence Document Revision History Available Online Documentation System Software Requirements Required And Recommended Software Patches Required Software Patches for Solaris 8 10/01 Note Required Software Patches for Solaris 8 07/01 Note Highly Recommended Sun Fire 880 Patch Sun PCI Cards That Support PCI Hot-Plug Note Caution on the Use of PCI Cards Not Specifically Qualified by Sun on the Sun Fire 880 Platform OpenBoot Firmware Documentation Note FC-AL Disk Drive Firmware Issues Note Installing Sun Fire 880 FC-AL Backplane Firmware Note System Hang Recovery Procedure Page Supported Sun Rack for the Sun Fire 880 Sun Fire 880 Server Rackmounting Caution Reminder Caution Documentation Errata Correction to the Motherboard Fan Tray Removal Procedure Note Correction to the Motherboard Fan Tray Installation Procedure Note Correction to Disk Drive Installation Procedure Correction to FC-AL Disk Cage Installation Procedure Correction to FRU Part Numbers Ordering DIMMs Part Number Corrections Note Correction to Cabling Instructions for Loop B PCI FC-AL Data Cable Correction to Expansion FC-AL Backplane Installation Procedure Note Correction to Displaying POST Results Correction to the diag-trigger Setting for Enabling ASR Note Correct Usage of the ifconfig Command for PCI Hot-Plug Note Open Issues Page Page SunVTS dpmtest fails on dual-loop internal storage array (BugID 4487855) Note Wrong packet error seen by loopback subtest in dpmtest (Bug ID 4493252) prtdiag reports fan failures as ENABLED with a speed of 0 (BugID 4431194) Note hsfs: hsnode table full (BugIDs 4082275, 4475306) Intermittent picld errors during power supply hot-plug (BugID 4431165) Note Page Hot-plug function is not disabled when only one power supply exists (BugID 4408237) CE memory reporting is ambiguous (BugID 4491362) PCI Hot-plug insert message is wrong for slots 7 and 8 (BugID 4546219) PCI attachment points should be generic (BugID 4388625) Status LED may not shut off after PCI hot-plug (BugID 4403481)