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Re: [Networker] Solaris 8 Boot time message

2003-11-21 13:24:15
Subject: Re: [Networker] Solaris 8 Boot time message
From: Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:24:14 -0800
>
> Networkers,
>
> Has anyone seen the following message during the boot cycle. It's not
> displayed by dmesg or logged in /var/adm/messages.
>
> SONY_AIT options value invalid bits set: 0x4000

Just a suggestion.  If networker isn't running (and nothing else is
talking to the drives), can you 'modunload' the st driver, then access a
drive (do a mt status).

That will reload the driver.  When that happens, do you get the message
on the console again?

0x4000 is ST_BUFFERED_WRITES.  I've certainly used that on many media,
even though it's not quite kosher with Networker.  I haven't touched
AIT-2 much though.

Can you confirm that 'mt -f <drive>' on both machines returns the same
string for the AIT tapes and that the st.conf option string has 0x4000
set on both machines?

If so, I'm at a loss to explain why one and not the other is
complaining.  In fact I don't know who is complaining here exactly.
It's probably from the st driver, but I'm not sure if the drive is
responding in a way that creates the complaint.

Different firmware levels on the drives?

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Unix System Administrator                    Taos - The SysAdmin Company
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