>We recently upgraded our SUN server 1000 from Solaris 2.4 to 2.5.1 and are now experiencing some intermittent problems with ufsdumping to our external DAT and 8mm exabyte drives.
> The errors we get (from /var/adm/messages) are:
>May 29 09:41:14 earth unix: WARNING: /io-unit@f,e1200000/sbi@0,0/dma@1,81000/esp@1,80000/st@2,0 (st16):
>May 29 09:41:14 earth unix: Error for Command: mode select Error Level: Fatal
>May 29 09:41:14 earth unix: Requested Block: 0 Error Block: 0
>May 29 09:41:14 earth unix: Vendor: HP Serial Number: 9
>May 29 09:41:14 earth unix: Sense Key: Illegal Request
>May 29 09:41:14 earth unix: ASC: 0x26 (invalid field in param list), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x0
I only recieved one answer (Bismark Espinoza).
In the end, what I did was to apply patch 103847 for ufsdump and revert to the 2.5.1 version of st.conf. This seemed to do the trick...
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