Re: [Networker] Tape drives goes offline quite often

currently it's having 113277-21, but will try with recently released patch 
113277-43 ..

showrev -p | grep 113277
Patch: 115553-13 Obsoletes: 112836-02, 112836-02, 115338-01, 115557-01, 11603, 
115338-01, 115557-01, 116065-03, 117198-02, 117382-01, 115004-02, 
117196-equires: 112233-12, 112954-05, 113277-18, 114128-02, 114332-04, 
117418-01 Inatibles:  Packages: SUNWcar, SUNWcsu, SUNWcsl, SUNWcslx, SUNWcarx, 
SUNWcsxu,Wmdb, SUNWcprx, SUNWusb, SUNWusbu, SUNWusbx, SUNWcstl, SUNWcstlx, 
SUNWhea, Spr, SUNWmdbx
Patch: 115553-14 Obsoletes: 112836-02, 112836-02, 115338-01, 115557-01, 11603, 
115338-01, 115557-01, 116065-03, 117198-02, 117382-01, 115004-02, 
117196-equires: 112233-12, 112954-05, 113277-18, 114128-02, 114332-04, 
117418-01 Inatibles:  Packages: SUNWcar, SUNWcsu, SUNWcsl, SUNWcslx, SUNWcarx, 
SUNWcsxu,Wmdb, SUNWcprx, SUNWusb, SUNWusbu, SUNWusbx, SUNWcstl, SUNWcstlx, 
SUNWhea, Spr, SUNWmdbx
Patch: 114128-01 Obsoletes:  Requires: 113277-06 Incompatibles:  Packages: Ssu, 
SUNWcsxu
Patch: 113277-26 Obsoletes: 113324-03, 113347-02, 117252-01 Requires: 112233 
112834-02 Incompatibles:  Packages: SUNWcsu, SUNWcsr, SUNWcarx, SUNWcsxu, Ssad, 
SUNWssadx, SUNWhea
Patch: 114128-02 Obsoletes:  Requires: 113277-06 Incompatibles:  Packages: Ssu, 
SUNWcsxu
Patch: 113277-08 Obsoletes: 113324-03, 113347-02 Requires: 112233-02, 
112834Incompatibles:  Packages: SUNWcsr, SUNWcarx, SUNWssad, SUNWssadx, SUNWhea
Patch: 113277-13 Obsoletes: 113324-03, 113347-02 Requires: 112233-02, 
112834Incompatibles:  Packages: SUNWcsr, SUNWcarx, SUNWssad, SUNWssadx, SUNWhea
Patch: 113277-17 Obsoletes: 113324-03, 113347-02 Requires: 112233-02, 
112834Incompatibles:  Packages: SUNWcsr, SUNWcarx, SUNWssad, SUNWssadx, SUNWhea
Patch: 113277-21 Obsoletes: 113324-03, 113347-02 Requires: 112233-02, 
112834Incompatibles:  Packages: SUNWcsr, SUNWcarx, SUNWssad, SUNWssadx, SUNWhea

Thx
Raghava
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Fakhruddin Hamid" <fakhruddin.hamid AT gmail DOT com>
> Hi,
> 
> Check the st driver for the Solaris, if you have a older driver it could be
> causing the problem.
> The st driver patch for Solaris 9 is: 113277 install the latest available
> patch.
> 
> Same way if u have other OS release install the appropaite patch.
> 
> Hope this will help
> 
> Regards
> Fakhruddin Hamid
> 
> On 3/18/06, Raghava Karu <kraghava AT comcast DOT net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi ,
> >
> > We are seeing this failure(tape drives goes offline) quite often on our
> > L700 LTO II IBM FC tape drives. These drives are shared between 8 storage
> > nodes and a backup server on Solaris 9 with EBS 7.2(SAN environment). We
> > observed it's happening once finsihing writing to tape at eof stage. Drive
> > is not seen by networker(nsrjb) and OS(mt,cfgadm)levels. It is recognising
> > only after power off/on those drives. Does anyone seen this issue before and
> > found a fix?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Raghava
> >
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