I only got one response, but it was right on target. I was finally
able to reboot the machine & had no problems backing up the drive...
So, in summary, if you get a lot of block read errors from an older SCSI
drive on a Solaris machine, turn off "tagged command queueing" and
see if that fixes the problem.
Thanks,
Joe
Solution ---
> From: misawa@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Shigeki Misawa)
>
> The most likely cause is "tagged command queueing".
>
> Try disabling tagged command queueing as directed in the Solaris FAQ.
>
> 3.28) How do I make Solaris2 use my Toshiba MK538FB and other older
> SCSI disks?
>
> Append this line to /etc/system and reboot:
>
> set scsi_options & ~0x80
>
> This turns off Command Queuing, which upsets the Toshiba and some
> other drives.
>
> In Solaris 2.4 and later you can set those options per SCSI bus. See
> isp(7) and esp(7).
>
> I had the same problem with a Micropolis 2217 on Solaris 2.4.
>
> Shigeki Misawa
> Graduate Student
> Solaris SysAdmin
> UCB Physics Department
Original message ---
> I have a pair of Micropolis 1936-21 drives on a 4-processor Sparc 10
> running Solaris 2.4, with all of the recommended patches from a couple of
> months ago (I know I should update them)... They are rated as 3 GB
> drives. They might be the A/V version of that drive if that makes any
> difference at all.
>
> I am using the following entry in my format.dat for the drives:
>
> ... lines deleted ...
>
> During normal use, I have no problems with the drive. However, when I try
> to back up the drive, I get errors of the following format:
>
> DUMP: Warning - cannot read sector xxxxxxx of `/dev/rdsk/c1t4d0s7'
> DUMP: Warning - block xxxxxxx is beyond the end of `/dev/rdsk/c1t4d0s7'
> DUMP: bread: llseek2 error
> DUMP: More than 32 block read errors from dump device
>
> and the dump fails. I forgot to mention that there is a Buffered
> Ehternet/SCSI card and a FDDI card in the machine. Since all of the
> SBUS slots are full or blocked by the MBUS modules, I'm running a
> VT320 for the system console...
>
> The sectors from the first warning appear to come from all over the
> disk.
>
> At first, I assumed this was a simple format error, and I brought the
> system down to single user mode. Since I couldn't run a dump, I used
> GNU tar to back the files up to another disk. I then reformatted
> the drive (It had been previously formatted with different values).
> I dumped the empty drive - that worked. I dumped the tar files from the
> othe filesystem - that worked. I untarred the files back onto the
> original drive & tried to dump them & got the same errors.
>
> I am absolutely lost - does anyone know of an alternative to buying new
> drives and replacing these???
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