Steve S. wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>
>>A friend has a Netra T1, with what I believe are 2x18GB internal hard
>>disks,
>>and an external RAID (just configured as sepparte disks) of 4 x 73GB
>>and 4 x 36GB. It's running Solaris S9. The internal disks are Sun, the
>>external ones Compaq.
>
>
> <SNIP>
>
> Seeing how all of the target errors I see belong to the external disks
> and are all at once I would say you :
> a. Have a failing controller - Do you have a pci scsi card to test with ?

But note the externals are Compaq, not Sun. He gave me a couple of
Compaq 36GB disks which I have never managed to get working in an SS20,
despite the fact I have used disks from Sun, Seagate, IBM, HP and others
in the Sun, all without problems. Compaq disks and my SS20 do not get on
together. But they seemed OK at first in his T1, but perhaps now are
presenting problems.

He does not have another controller card, but I have a one I could loan
him (dual Sun one).

However, he does have another T1, which he wants to give to me so I can
learn about it and help him. The 'lom' thing I don't understand. I'm
only a home user, with my best box being a U80.

> b. Have a failing raid box - Is this an active raid box with a seperate
> controller or just a simple JBOD ?

I don't know, as I have not seen any of it. I suspect it might be a bit
more than an simple external SCSI box, but I don't know.

I've managed to get it to the point where it will reboot properly
without human intervention, by commenting out the entry in /etc/vfstab
of a file system that is clearly corrupt. But whilst it boots OK now,
there are still SCSI errors, so the problem needs addressing.

> Steve

Thanks Steve.