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Ultra[tm] 60 Workstation: Repair Procedures

This section provides the most common repair procedures for the Ultra 60 workstation. Many of the written procedures below are links to the Ultra 60 Service Manual (805-1709).

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CPU Module
Disk Drive
  • Improved firmware for Seagate 10K.6 disk drives will reduce the incidence of unexpected outages due to a spindle motor issue (I1136-1).
  • 18.2GB and 36GB IBM disk drives may be susceptible to early life failures problem (FIN I0724-2).
  • Systems with 18.2GB and 36GB IBM disk drives may experience higher than expected failure rate. (FCO A0182-2).
PCI Card
  • SunPCi II and SunPCi IIpro cards may not respond after rapid/successive power cycling (FCO A0186-1).
  • A host system using the 375-0040-01 or -02 FC100/P FC-AL PCI card to attach to FC-AL storage (StorEdge A5x00 and A3500) may experience loop errors, which may affect data access to that storage (FCO A0164-1).
PCI Fan Assembly
  • A noise reduction kit (X2087A ) is available to reduce acoustic noise of system (FIN I0538-1).
System Board
  • Ultra 60 systems shipped out of Sun UK may experience crystal reliability issues which results in mutliple failure types (FCO A0158-1).
UPA Graphics Card
  • The 'fbconfig' (1M) command may return incorrect part number for XVR-1000 Graphics Accelerator (FIN I0945-1).
  • SunBlade 1000/2000 and Ultra 60/80 systems may exhibit a blank screen upon boot up with an XVR-1000 Graphics Accelerator installed (FCO A0200-1).

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