[OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users

[Jim Klimov]

Hello all,

   My attention was requested to an old UltraSPARC E450 machine with
Solaris 8, whose clock was going slower and worse for the past few
days, maybe weeks. Since about today it has practically stopped -
or more precisely, loops over the same 2-3 second interval over and
over, even with NTP client enabled.

   My hunch would be a dead battery on CMOS, or whatever the analog
of one would be. Any ideas where it might be located, and what model
it is (like CR2032 on Intel-compatibles)? Any more ideas?

   So far they are doing backups and the machine will go into a diag
reboot; normal reboot did not clear the errors at least.

   The beast is old, but serves as an appliance of an old database
which nobody knows how to manage or migrate nowadays, even if into
a Solaris8 branded zone on a newer SPARC, and the production payload
is needed and important. Nobody knows how it works, but they know
too well what for. Bummer...

Thanks for any hints, hunches, anecdotes...
//Jim Klimov