SunFire V100 PATA Hard Disks

The SUN SunFire V100 uses legacy Parallel ATA (PATA) – UltraATA 100 – hard drive controllers. A base configuration V100 has one included hard drive (generally 40GB or 80GB) with a removable “drive cage”. A second drive can be installed but will require the addition of a second drive cage. Otherwise there is no where …

Accessing the SunFire V100 LOM Serial Console

Unlike traditional “Intel” or PC based servers (HP Proliant, IBM xSeries, Dell PowerEdge, etc.) the SUN SunFire is a RISC server and does not use keyboard, mouse or monitor ports with which to interact with the server. Interactions traditionally takes place through the integrated Lights Out Management, or LOM, port which provides, in addition to …

SunFire V100 Server

Welcome to Scott’s SUN SunFire V100 UltraSPARC Server page. I decided, after finding a dearth of information online about getting started with one of these machines, that I would make my own little V100 repository on the web for people looking to get some help with SUN’s most basic UltraSPARC server. The SunFire V100 is …

September 11, 2007: Basic Instructions

The incredible rains returned again today. Today they didn’t begin until almost noon although there was some amount of rain all night causing light flooding around Newark on my drive into the office. At two thirty this morning the smoke detectors in Dominica and my apartment went off because of the incredible humidity. Of course …