Did you save a copy of your st.conf file before applying the
8_Recommended patches?  We recently applied some Solaris patches, and
one of them clobbered the st.conf file.  Good thing we'd been advised by
Sun to save that file.

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 15:47, veritaslist AT mailmgr DOT com wrote:
> 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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