[SUMMARY] Problems with E3500 and SCSI

From: Hall, Johnny (johnny.hall@pahv.xerox.com)
Date: Wed Oct 13 1999 - 15:02:30 CDT


All,

Thanks for all of your responses. It was in fact a bad disk, we got a
new one in and all is well.

As far as terminating the E3x00 most people said yes.

Thanks Again,

Johnny

"Hall, Johnny" wrote:
>
> Hello Managers,
>
> I have an E3500 running Solaris 2.6 and Recommended patches.
>
> We are getting this error in /var/adm/messages...
>
> Oct 11 14:40:11 GreatWall unix: sf0: Lost Frame (write) got 0x14
> al_pa 0xefOct 11 14:40:11 GreatWall unix: WARNING:
> /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@0,0/s@w21000020372bad3e,0 (ssd1):
> Oct 11 14:40:11 GreatWall unix: SCSI transport failed: reason
> 'incomple': retrying command
> Oct 11 14:40:11 GreatWall unix: sf0: Lost Frame (write) got 0x14
> al_pa 0xefOct 11 14:40:11 GreatWall last message repeated 40 times
> Oct 11 14:40:11 GreatWall unix: WARNING:
> /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@0,0/s@w21000020372bad3e,0 (ssd1):
> Oct 11 14:40:11 GreatWall unix: disk not responding to selection
> Oct 11 14:40:11 GreatWall unix: sf0: Lost Frame (write) got 0x14
> al_pa 0xefOct 11 14:40:11 GreatWall last message repeated 13 times
> Oct 11 14:40:11 GreatWall unix: ssd1: disk okay
>
> At first I thought it was a scsi sync issue but now am not so sure. Any
> assistance is greatly appreciated. Now one thing that I am certainly
> not clear about is whether or not the E3x00 should be terminated. If
> memory serves me, the docs say yes, depending on who you ask you get
> yes/no/maybe. In my exp. with the E3000 we terminated it and it went
> haywire..
>
> BTW David,
>
> This is time critical, I have checked the archives/faq and have checked
> Sun Solve... :-)
>
> TIA,
>
> Johnny
>
> --
> "Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous
> positions." - Sun Tzu

-- 
"Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous
positions." - Sun Tzu



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Sep 28 2001 - 23:13:29 CDT