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Sun Fire 15K : Archived FINs and FCOs

Implementation (Impl.):
M = Mandatory (Fully Pro-Active)

C = Controlled Pro-Active (per Sun Geo Plan)

U = Upon Failure
R = Reactive (As Required)

FAB Implementation Synopsis Last Modified Date
A0253-1 C A sub-population of DIMMs that shipped between 2001 and 2002 on the below platforms are showing significantly lower reliability than expected. Aug 18 2005
A0249-1 U EMI cap screws in Sun Fire 12K/15K PCI Cassettes may tighten over time, making it difficult to remove PCI I/O cards. Jan 14 2005
A0248-1 M A limited set of Sun Fire System Boards may be vulnerable to Uncorrectable Errors in L2 SRAM. Nov 05 2004
A0246-1 U Crystal-2A card (or other PCI adapter cards) in Slot 1 of hsPCI I/O board (5.0v cassette) may not be recognized upon boot or may unexpectedly fail to initialize. Nov 05 2004
A0223-1 U On Sun systems, a small number of 256MB DIMMs may experience Uncorrectable Memory Errors (UE). Mar 23 2004
A0219-1 C Cauldron cards, 501-5727-04 (or below) WITH the BC bridge chip may cause a panic during boot on Sun Fire 15K/12K systems. Mar 23 2004
A0218-3 U The 3.3V hsPCI Cassette inaccurately determines the speed of the PCI adapter and sets it to 33 MHz. Jan 23 2004
A0217-1 C Sun Fire 12K and 15K systems may experience a loss of system redundancy. Mar 10 2004
A0209-1 U Sun Fire 15K & Sun Fire 12K with Crystal+ cards may experience panics in the pcisch driver. Jun 13 2003
A0198-1 U Sun Fire 15K system domains containing SunSwift PCI SCSI/ethernet combo adapters, may encounter SCSI errors. Jun 05 2002
A0196-1 M Sun Fire 15K & Sun Fire 12K Fan Tray Assemblies do not provide thermal cooling headroom for MaxCPU configurations. Jun 28 2002
A0193-1 M Sun Fire 15K systems with hsPCI boards having Schizo 2.2 ASICs can suffer a panic due to a timing race condition. Jan 03 2003
A0192-2 M Sun Fire 15K systems with System Expander Boards having AXQ 6.0 ASICs may experience a deadlock condition. Feb 20 2003
I0912-1 R Sun Fire CPU/Memory Board FRUs are not enabled for Capacity On Demand. 2003-03-04
I0907-1 R F12K/F15K systems which have 66MHz capable adapters in 66MHz capable slots potentially may run at 33MHz. 2002-12-10
I0895-1 C Sun Fire 12K/15K domains may fail to boot due to LPOST issue. 2002-12-10
I0887-1 R Guidelines for understanding and diagnosing UltraSPARC III Level 2 (L2) SRAM Cache Memory Errors. 2002-10-07
I0885-1 C SunVTS releases prior to 5.1 may not run tests on all CPUs in Sun Fire 12K/15K domains. 2002-11-26
I0878-1 C F12/15K System Controllers may not be able to save a crash dump due to a misconfiguration. 2002-11-26
I0874-1 R UltraSPARC III systems may panic due to a conflict between the Schizo 2.4 ASIC and the GigaSwift Ethernet PCI Card 2002-09-11
I0871-1 C Patches for SMS1.2 are required for a Sun Fire 15K to correctly operate with 1050MHz UltraSparc-III processors. 2002-10-04
I0855-1 R Sun Fire CPU/Memory Boards may become unusable when components are knocked off by improper handling 2002-08-02
I0837-1 R Sun Fire 15K servers cannot boot from Sun StorEdge T3/T3+ Arrays due to an issue with the Sun FCP SCSI Device Driver 2002-06-14
I0834-2 C Domains on Sun Fire 12K/15K systems may suffer domain stops (DSTOP) with a signature of "CP arbiter lockstep consistency check error". 2002-12-24
I0826-1 R Incorrect LED states on the Expander, CPU, and other Sun Fire 15K/12K boards after a cold start (power on) do not indicate an actual failure 2002-05-15
I0812-1 R Installation of Solaris 8 (U7) from DVD on F15K and E10000 servers fails to execute platform specific finish scripts 2002-04-17
I0804-1 C SMS 1.1 to 1.2 upgrade path using the software available with Solaris 8 Update 7 requires complete reconfiguration of platform 2002-04-09
I0802-1 C Incorrect hsPCI cassette LED status on Sun Fire 15K may cause domain panic when cassette is removed 2002-03-27
I0785-1 R The osdTimeDeltas file is used when providing the Time Of Day to Sun Fire 15K domains. This file was not included in the list of files to propagate from the MAIN SC to the SPARE SC 2002-03-01
I0783-1 R Sun Fire 15K System Controllers shipped between Aug/13/2001 and Jan/03/2002 (inclusive) may not have the appropriate Solaris FRU ID packages installed 2002-03-05
I0781-1 C Upgrades to the factory installed SMS software on Sun Fire 15K systems might overwrite the Capacity On Demand blacklist file 2002-03-01
I0767-1 C Environmental thresholds for the Sun Fire 15K with SMS 1.1 must be manually tuned 2002-02-08
I0754-1 R Installing third-party software on the Sun Fire 15K System Controller 2001-12-20
I0753-1 R Sun Fire 15K installations running SMS 1.1 may experience deadlock condition 2002-01-02
I0748-1 R Sun Fire 15K System Controller should be configured with at least 2 Gbytes swap space 2002-02-22
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