Hardware

Hello everyone,

I have a Sun Fire v880 server which i picked up second hand, it has been working fine for the past month or 2 but now all of a sudden it has encountered an unexpected and weird problem.

Pretty much, i have been learning how to manage disks on sun systems, using the format command e.t.c. and also RAID stuff.

Anyhow, the server had been pretty much non stop for the past month or so and i had turned it off now and then but only for a minute or 2 but yesterday i turned it off and tried turning it back on and it now does not start, the fans spin and the server is definitely POSTing but after a minute or so the Spanner and OK-To-Remove lights blink simultaniousely every 2 seconds and it will sit there for ever but i then turn the key around to Diagnostics mode and eventually it moves on with the boot process and the monitor comes up and it is testing everything.

The first time that i did the diagnostics key trick it did not spit back an error with any device that it POSTed but the 2nd time that i did it, it came back with an eror with pci2@8,60000,qlc
The spanner light was on perminently but the OK-To-Remove light was off.
The system also said that it was running in Maintainence mode (or diagnostics mode or service mode or somthing like that)

Then at open boot i ran
Ok post
And it did it all again but this time after the screen came back on there was no errors with that qlc device and the spanner light was off aswell as the ok-to-remove, so the server appeared to be in perfect working order.

I am now installing solaris 10 8/07 on it.
I was able to run boot cdrom, the only odd thing that happened was that the system did not like the X server starting for the install process.
Error said I/O error X server failed.
I have installed solairs on it a million times with no issues and X server working fine.

This server had no issues and now it has all this happening to it.. so damn typical of IT!

Incidently, i picked the v880 up for AU$4000 about 2 months ago
Specifications
CPU: 8 x 900 MHZ
RAM: 16GB
HDDS: 6 x 73 GB
DVD-ROM

Is that a good price, i live in Australia btw.

What is the qlc?
The current Openboot version is 4.xx.xx, what is the latest, i did an update of the firmware last week and the patch number was 119241-01, i applied it through solaris using patchadd. The server restarted but there did not appear to be any errors what so ever, but i cannot remember if i actually turned the server off or not since the PROM flashing.

thanks alot for reading and replying!!