try tpconfig -l?
What does it say??


-Murali

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritaslist AT mailmgr DOT com [mailto:veritaslist AT mailmgr DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 12:48 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape drives keep going down upon use on 
> Solaris 8
> master server after upgrade
> 
> 
> Hi, last week, I configured my drives from the OS (solaris 8) 
> through NBU (datacenter) and everything was happy. Yesterday, 
> I installed the most recent 8_Recommended patch set. 
> Everything looked OK and I left it. Today, I notice that the 
> drives go down every time I try to use them through NBU. When 
> I kick off a job, I get this error:
> Aug 28 14:41:29 backup1.dmc.org avrd[1912]: Fatal open error 
> on IBMULTRIUM-TD13
> (device 1, /dev/rmt/5cbn), errno = 6 (No such device or 
> address), DOWN'ing it
> 
> If I drop to the OS level, the drives are there just as they 
> should be (/dev/rmt entries pointing to /devices/... entries. 
> I have also noticed this:
> # mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status
> /dev/rmt/0: No such device or address
> 
> But, if I do a reconfig reboot the drives are put back in 
> their normal place, and n sgscan sees the drives where I 
> would expect it to.
> 
> This problems was occuring beforehand, but I did also upgrade 
> from NBU datacenter 4.5GA to 4.5 MP5 today.
> 
> Any thoughts? I am stuck and our backups are dead in the water.
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