E250 Power Supply problem
Mr. Chow Wing Siu
Jul 3 10:36:04 XXXXXXX envctrltwo: [ID 771032 kern.warning] WARNING: Power Supply 0 NOT okay
The panel lights are as follows:
Green Orange Green (flash)
Orange
Please advise. Thanks.
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Johnson Chow
Richard B. Gilbert
It seems very clear that one of your two power supplies has failed. You
need to call your service provider who will almost certainly replace a
power supply. If you are doing your own maintenance, fire yourself and
hire someone who knows what he is doing!!
Bruce Esquibel
> It seems very clear that one of your two power supplies has failed. You
> need to call your service provider who will almost certainly replace a
> power supply. If you are doing your own maintenance, fire yourself and
> hire someone who knows what he is doing!!
It's weird, we used to use E250's for years and I don't remember them having
dual power supplies unless it was some option we never got. I know there is
only one line cord on those. Other machines like the 280R have dual supplies
but also two line cords.
Anyway, one suggestion, for what good it'll do the OP based on the age of
those, odds are the power supply is fine but the fan in it isn't.
Again from foggy memory, I think the E250 has 5 fans in it, 3 mounted on a
pull out tray, one power supply and one "case" fan bolted to the back
somewhere. They all have those tach leads and if any of them slow down or
stop, you get the syslog warning and blinking light.
I know the tray fans are fairly common (easy to find and replace), but not
sure about the others.
One thing about Sun hardware from that era, the fans aren't your common
"costs 10 cents to make" china types. Think they are all ball bearing and
can be disassembled/cleaned where the repair actually lasts.
-bruce
b...@ripco.com
Thomas Tornblom
> Richard B. Gilbert <rgilb...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> It seems very clear that one of your two power supplies has failed. You
>> need to call your service provider who will almost certainly replace a
>> power supply. If you are doing your own maintenance, fire yourself and
>> hire someone who knows what he is doing!!
>
>
> It's weird, we used to use E250's for years and I don't remember them having
> dual power supplies unless it was some option we never got. I know there is
> only one line cord on those. Other machines like the 280R have dual supplies
> but also two line cords.
The E250 has two power supplies *and* two power cords.
Richard B. Gilbert
Isn't the second supply optional? Perhaps depending on what else is
installed?
Bruce Esquibel
> The E250 has two power supplies *and* two power cords.
Half a cookie for you.
From Sun's spec sheet on the E250...
Power Supplies
Type One or two N+1 redundant, hot-swap, universal input (1 supply standard)
Output 360 W
Power bus Common, load-sharing
The 2nd one was optional, not standard.
Heh, still news to me, never knew you could have two in that model.
-bruce
b...@ripco.com
Richard B. Gilbert
I think that dual or N+1 redundant supplies are at least an option on
"industrial strength" systems.
If you plug them into two independent branch circuits you get some
additional reliability! ISTR seeing a system or two that could have
three power supplies; any two were sufficient to keep you going.
Michael Laajanen
Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Bruce Esquibel wrote:
>> Thomas Tornblom <tho...@hax.se> wrote:
>>
>>> The E250 has two power supplies *and* two power cords.
>>
>> Half a cookie for you.
>>
>> From Sun's spec sheet on the E250...
>>
>> Power Supplies
>> Type One or two N+1 redundant, hot-swap, universal input (1 supply
>> standard)
>> Output 360 W
>> Power bus Common, load-sharing
>>
>> The 2nd one was optional, not standard.
>>
Just like one or two CPU's, it depends on how you ordered it.
>> Heh, still news to me, never knew you could have two in that model.
>>
>
> I think that dual or N+1 redundant supplies are at least an option on
> "industrial strength" systems.
>
> If you plug them into two independent branch circuits you get some
> additional reliability! ISTR seeing a system or two that could have
> three power supplies; any two were sufficient to keep you going.
On a a not maxed E450, one of three is good enough.
Power Supplies:
---------------
Supply Rating Temp Status
------ ------ ---- ------
0 550 W 48 OK
1 550 W 49 OK
2 550 W 48 OK
/michael
Tim Bradshaw
<rgilb...@comcast.net> said:
> f you plug them into two independent branch circuits you get some
> additional reliability! ISTR seeing a system or two that could have
> three power supplies; any two were sufficient to keep you going.
25ks have, I think, 6 (3 front, 3 back), each of which has dual feeds.
i5mast
wrote:
> It seems very clear that one of your two power supplies has failed. You
> need to call your service provider who will almost certainly replace a
> power supply. If you are doing your own maintenance, fire yourself and
> hire someone who knows what he is doing!!
No need to fire anybody. Go to anysystem.com and buy one for $95.
http://www.anysystem.com/x9683a.html