Gregory Demilde - Sun Belgium - Helpdesk Junior System Support Engineer wrote:
> 
> > STK has replaced the drive twice (!). Is this indicative of just a bad
> > cable? Bad hostbus adaptor?
> 
> Ryan,
> 
> Check first if you have the latest glm patch installed (105580-16). If problem
> persists after installation of patch (reboot might be needed) then I would
> recommend to change HBA and SCSI cables.
> 
> Greg
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 I'm also dealing with this issue right now.  At this point we're getting
 ready to swap out the internal scsi controller on the E450 (also running
 Solaris 2.6).  In our situation, we had a tape drive die, after which we
 started seeing timeouts on all devices on the bus.  Occasionally after 
 power cycling the server, everything would come back ok, only to start
 experiencing the timeouts after a half hour or so of usage.  Although at
 this point, the timeouts start occuring during the boot phase of the
 system.
 
 Checking on sunsolve, there seem to be numerous people experiencing these
 timeouts on E450's.  One person claimed they started after applying y2k
 patches.   We've applied all of the latest maintenance, including 105580-016
 and the problems still persist.  I should know by next week whether or not
 swapping the internal controller fixes the problem.


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 John Meyers
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