Try "# iostat -En" see if there is any hardware errors reported there.

----- Original Message ----
From: Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:46:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Networker] device getting disabled


On Jan 27, 2008, at 6:40 PM, don karnash wrote:

> Hello,
> We run solstice 6.1 on solaris 8. The library has two drives/devices
  
> and one of the devices gets disabled automatically. No changes has  
> been made to solstice or the library. Can anyone please advise what  
> could be wrong.

Check the log files /nsr/messages and /nsr/daemon as well as /var/adm/ 
messages for errors that match up with the times the device is
 disabled.

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