HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: leisner@wrc.xerox.com ( Marty Leisner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Disk Drive Benchmark Testing !!!
Date: 1 Jan 93 22:07:39 GMT
Reply-To: leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com
Organization: Xerox
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

iozone is pretty good

--
marty
leisner.henr801c@xerox.com  leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com
Member of the League for Programming Freedom
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: venkatap@willis.cis.uab.edu (Chandrasekaran Venkatapathy)
Subject: Info needed about networking
Organization: Comp. Science Dept, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:10:20 GMT

Hi there,

	I want to put my machine on the Internet. This is bascially
	to provide email facility for the users of my system. Can I
	do it by having a modem and a dedicated telephone line?

	The configuration that I have is:
		2 sunsparc running under sunos 4.1.3 connected
		by ethernet.

	If such a thing is possible, what should be the baud rate
	of the modem?

	Any help would be greatly appreciated.  

- Chandra Venkat
From: liu@banyan (Shun-Jee Liu)
Subject: Re: PC-NFS + NCSA telnet
Organization: National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:14:30 GMT

David Fetrow (fetrow@biostat.washington.edu) wrote:
:  (For mostly powers-that-be reasons) I need to run NCSA telnet along with
: PC-NFS 4.0a under MS-DOS 5.0. It has to run native, with it's usual packet
: drivers, because we need to run a unique version.

:  There is the excellent pktd40a.sys "shim" that works very well but what
: I can't get is PC-NFS and NCSA-telnet to BOTH work reliably. Could someone
: who knows what they are doing drop me a line?
: -- 
:    -dave   fetrow-		INTERNET:	fetrow@biostat.washington.edu
:    				BITNET:		fetrow@uwalocke

Using pktmux to provide the multiplexing interface to the
packet driver, you can use the PC-NFS and NCSA telnet simultaneousely.
--
========================================================================
Shun-Jee Liu 
Email : liu@cmibm4.cm.nctu.edu.tw, u8011841@cc.nctu.edu.tw
Phone : 886-35-712121 ext 3428 (Laboratory), 6454 (Dormitory)
Institute of Electronics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
========================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: gord%jericho.uucp (Gord Wait)
Subject: client problems after a server reboot
Organization: S-MOS Systems, Inc. (Vancouver Design Center)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:04:12 GMT


After a reboot of our server, some of the NFS clients seem to get
messed up. I get stale NFS file handle errors and I also get things
like the following:

Dec 23 09:57:10 wreck vmunix: NFS write error 70 on host tower fh 72e
1 a0000 45397 111eed1f a0000 2 625b753d
Dec 23 09:59:06 wreck vmunix: NFS write error 70 on host tower fh 72e
1 a0000 45396 5cd908ea a0000 2 625b753d

The simple fix is to reboot the client. I previously have never had
any trouble rebooting the server (maybe I was just lucky?).

The client is a sparc 1, OS 4.1.1, the server is a 4/330, OS 4.1.3

Help!

-- 
Gord Wait 	SMOS Systems Vancouver Design Centre
uunet!jericho!gord
gord%jericho@uunet.uu.net
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.1 License Conditions
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:07:07 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>Is this an attempt by Sun to force users, via the license conditions, to
>develop only for the OPEN LOOK environment, rather than, for example, Motif.

Not necessarily.  This requires a clarification from Sun's legal beagles
(or maybe legal bassets :-)).

>Virtually all software developed for the Sun platform will incorporate the
>Sun libraries, and will therefore come under this condition.

Depends on which libraries are covered by the "to the extent applicable"
clause.  It may mean that it refers to all libraries, or it may mean
only that it refers to libraries that are OPEN LOOK toolkits (e.g.,
OLIT, or *maybe* XView, although given that at least one version of
XView has been made freely-available in source form, it may not apply if
you use *that* version of XView).

>What does it mean by OPEN LOOK(R) compliant?

It probably means "doesn't do anything that the OPEN LOOK Style Guide
says it shouldn't do, and does everything that the OL Style Guide
requires it to do."

>How is this legally determined ?

I think there may be a certification procedure that
AT&T^H^H^H^HUSL^H^H^HNovell :-) offers.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb)
Subject: Re: Where is the FAQ?
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:22:19 GMT

In <C00EKu.6sn@acsu.buffalo.edu> str@lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu (Sathasivam T Raveendra) writes:

>Could the keeper of the FAQ please send me a copy of it please?
>Wouldn't it be a good idea to post it evry other week?

A copy of the FAQ should always be available in the news.answers
newsgroup (which is where I saw it).  The way things are set up there,
the article shouldn't expire for quite a while...

Posting the FAQ biweekly doesn't make sense to me:  monthly should
be fine (maybe alternating the post to comp.sys.sun.admin and news.answers
should be done).

-- 
Ken Bibb                "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
kbibb@qualcomm.com	 universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
jester@crash.cts.com     their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
				--"The Dead", James Joyce

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: esch@galaxy.xilinx.com (Eric Schemmerling)
Subject:  bbs for sun
Originator: esch@xilinx.com
Keywords: bbs sun
Reply-To: esch@galaxy.xilinx.com (Eric Schemmerling)
Organization: Xilinx Inc.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:56:48 GMT


Does anyone know of a bbs system which will run on a sparc ???

Please Oh please let us know


Thanks

Eric Schemmerling
Sr Sys Admin
Xilinx Inc.
San Jose CA 95124
esch@xilinx.com


Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9661 comp.sys.sun.misc:5956 comp.sys.sun.hardware:6468
From: psikos@erato.csi.forth.gr (Panos Psikos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: SUN European Distributors?
Date: 22 Dec 1992 08:39:35 GMT
Organization: FORTH - ICS, P.O.Box 1385, Heraklio, Crete, Greece 71110 
       tel: +30(81)221171, 229302 fax: +30(81)229342,3 tlx: 262389 CCI
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: erato.csi.forth.gr

	The subject line says it all. I am looking for European Distributors
of Sun systems. Any suggestions, recommendations or experiences are welcomed.

	Thanks in advance.
		Panos Psikos


	Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!!
-- 
================================================================================These are my OWN opinions. I do not speak for anybody else.  
			TANSTAAFL!!
================================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: joanne@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Joanne Shimada)
Subject: Re: kernel build problem revisited
Summary: problem building a kernel on ipx 4.1.3
Keywords: kernel, build
Organization: SAR Systems Development and Processing, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:00:40 GMT

In article <carr.725601886@tera> carr@tera.cs.umn.edu (Christopher L. Carr) writes:
>Here is some more info on my problem.
>
>I ran ranlib, and still ld cannot seem to 
>find libprom.a????
>
>here is the output from the make and some
>other stuff.
>
>Any help is appreciated.
>
>[... deleted ...]
>
>loading vmunix
>ld: Undefined symbol
>   _prom_get_boot_dev_name
>[... deleted ...]
>make: *** [vmunix] Error 2
>
>Chris Carr
>****************************************************************************
>carr@cs.umn.edu

One of my coworkers had a similar problem on a 670 running 4.1.2.
It turned out that he was (mistakenly) invoking gcc instead of the
bundled C compiler; using /bin/cc fixed the problem.

If you're not able to build the kernel with /bin/cc, you can try
editing the Makefile in your build directory.  It should contain
lines similar to the following:

LIBPROMDIR=	$(SYSDIR)/$(ARCH)
LIBPROM=	$(LIBPROMDIR)/libprom.a

OBJS=	../OBJ/des_crypt.o ../OBJ/des_soft.o \
        [....]

OBJS += $(LIBPROM)

The problem is that the last line shown above is not being evaluated
correctly.  Comment out the last line shown above and explicitly add
$(LIBPROM) to the end of the original definition of OBJS; then retry 
the make.

Joanne
-- 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Joanne G. Shimada              joanne@malibu.jpl.nasa.gov; SPAN:  kahuna::joanne
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 300-235, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109
These are my opinions, not JPL's.                               Go BEARS! (sigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis)
Subject: Re: tcsh for Solaris 2.1?
Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 23:21:39 GMT

georgn@noweh.com (Georg S. Nikodym) writes:

>In article <ellis.723784078@nova> ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) writes:
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^
(that's me)

>   brossard@siisun.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII) writes:

>   >In article <1992Dec4.150456.8605@dragon.acadiau.ca>, peter@dragon.acadiau.ca (Peter Steele) writes:
>   >|> Does anyone have tcsh or possibly zsh compiled for Solaris 2.1. I've got

>   >   Check farside.rutgers.edu in the bin directory, you'll find a
>   >binary for tcsh and a few others.

>   >-- 

>   >Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
>   >	SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse, +41 21 693-2211
>   >brossard@sic.epfl.ch

>   I just checked there and do not find it.  Any other clues?

>Try opcom.sun.ca
>-- 
>Georg S. Nikodym  -  (416) 272-5198 / 720-4729
>Noweh Software - Mississauga, Ontario, CANADA
>UUCP:	{comspec.com, lsuc.on.ca, uunet.ca}!noweh!georgn
>RFC822:	georgn@noweh.COM

I misunderstood the organization of farside.  Farside seems to be running
Solaris 2.x system, and you look in the running directories.  Just a
clarification.

--
                                                          ___________________
  R.Stewart(Stew) Ellis, Assoc.Prof., (Off)313-762-9765  /   _____  ______ 
  Humanities & Social Science,  GMI Eng.& Mgmt. Inst.   /        / /  /  / /
  Flint, MI 48504      ellis@nova.gmi.edu              /________/ /  /  / /
From: sam@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM (Sam Falkner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.managers,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Any way to reduce the size of BackupCoPilot Database?
Date: 21 Dec 92 22:18:12 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

meyer@darkwing.uoregon.edu (David M. Meyer 503/346-1747) writes:

>	Does anyone know if there is a way to reduce the size of
>	BackupCoPilot Database? Ours is huge (like 200MB).

here's some general stuff.  you probably already know most of this
stuff, but maybe something will help you.  feel free to email me if
you'd like me to go into it more (but i'll be away from email from
12/23 to 1/4).

there are two main things you can do:

(1) speed up your expiration cycle.

(2) do a `dumpdm dir_rebuild'.  this does what some people believe
`dumpdm reclaim' does, i.e. it can punt dead records and free up disk
space.  unfortunately, it's cumbersome and relatively slow.  also, i'd
recommend a mapsize of at least 100 (i.e. `-m 100').  note that there's
a misprint in the dumpdm man page -- the default mapsize isn't really
`1', it's `100', and the max is really `500' (at least if you have the
patch).

here's some more info:

a filesystem with lots of little files is worse than one with a few big
files.  this is obvious, but worth mentioning.

when a tape `expires', it doesn't leave the database right then.  it
only leaves the database when rpc.dumpdbd receives a new `file #1' for
that tape.  so, if you have a ton of expired tapes and you decide that
space is more important than recoverability, do a `dumpdm delete' on
expired tapes.  also, if `file #1' didn't make it in for some reason,
you'll have problems.

as the admin guide says (i think), you should do `dumpdm reclaim' at
least once every three months.  however, this doesn't buy you any disk
space directly!  many people mistakenly believe that `dumpdm reclaim'
will make their database smaller.  read the man page for dumpdm
carefully.  `reclaim' helps on future updates.

- sam
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: balas@aem.umn.edu (Gary Balas)
Subject: format.dat entry for Quatum LPS240 drive
Summary: like to acquire format.dat entry for Quantum LPS240 hard drive for ELC
Keywords: format.dat Quantum harddrive
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:44:28 GMT

Hi-

I'm about to purchase a Quantum LPS240 hard disk for my sun sparc elc
and would like to know if anyone has a format.dat entry for this
hard drive? thanks

gary
balas@jette.aem.umn.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9669 comp.unix.admin:6748
From: envbvs@epb11.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: dial-in modem setup
Date: 22 Dec 1992 16:52:39 GMT
Organization: lbl
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.123

In article <1992Dec10.083915.27482@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk>, shlam@ie.cuhk.hk (Alan S H Lam) writes:

|> >I assume your modem is not set to allways return carrier high?  (I.E. your
|> >modem is configured &c1&d2, or something similar).  If this is the case, your
|> >getty line should look something like this (taken from my /etc/gettydefs).
|> 
|> >modem# B19200 OPOST ONLCR # B19200 HUPCL SANE IXANY TAB3 #login: #96modem
|> 
|> 
|> >The important thing here is the hupcl.
|> 
|> I have the similar problem on my ipx but my ipx does not have /etc/gettydefs
|> file, it only have gettytab and ttytab in the /etc and it seems that gettytab
|> file do not take the HUPCL option. Any suggestion?

My Sparc ELC's also don't have /etc/gettydefs and it is not in the man pages.
What is the format for this file and who (which program) uses it?

-- 
Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.os.coherent
From: filip@jpradley.jpr.com (David Filip)
Subject: UUCP problems w/Sun
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:56:12 GMT
Summary:  Can't get UUCP working between Sun & Coherent
Keywords: sun uucp coherent
Followup-To: dfilip@colornet.com
Organization: Unix in NYC


I am having problems getting a Sun Sparc 1 I've inherited at work to talk
to a system I have at home.

The problem is that (running uucico manually with -x9) the modem dials 
properly and my chat script seems to work properly (up to and including 
sending the password), however after that the last thing that uucico
prints is 'imsg>' and then it just sits there until the system I am calling
times out, hangs up the line, and I see a few garbage characters and a
DISCONNECTED message from the modem.

Unfortunatly, I do not see any of the usual :

	Shere=remote_site
	Slocal-site -Qn -Xn
	ROK
	Pg
	Ug
	etc...

so I am not sure where communication is breaking down. 


The master is a Sun Sparc 1 running Sun OS 4.1.1, and is calling a Coherent
system running 4.0. The modem on the Sparc is a Telebit Trailblazer.

Unfortunatly, I don't have much in the way of documentation. Also, the system
I got did NOT have uucp on it, so I pulled uucp from a 4.1 tape (yes, I
said that the OS is 4.1.1) so I am not sure if that causes any problems.

The Coherent system does not even see the Sparc login (zero bytes in the
uucico log file), so the connection is obviously not being established.
On the other hand, I am not sure what the Sparc is waiting for (what does
imsg> mean ?). Also, the login that I am using into the Coherent system is
used by other systems, so I don't believe there is a fundamental flaw in
the setup of the Coherent side.

Although I realize that I am not giving much in the way of details, I believe
that contents of my Systems, Permissions, etc., file are correct, but more
importantly the system is being dialed, it's just that there is no protocol
negotiation going on.

BTW - the Sparc .Log/uucico files for the system I am calling simply state that
the 'dial' is successful, and that the 'login' is not.

I am looking for any clues as to what to look for, since at this point I
am really not sure where to go.

Thanks,

Dave.

p.s.

Since I am not a normal subscriber to comp.sys.sun.admin, please email me
back at either dfilip@colornet.com (prefered), or filip@jpr.com.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ft@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (frederick.d.true)
Subject: How to hack passwd or login
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:39:43 GMT
Keywords: passwd

Is the source for Sun's version of passwd available somewhere, so that
I might add routines for password robustness?  Currently, I have
replaced passwd with a program that checks a user's password for
several levels of robustness, and then calls the 'real' passwd program
to do the actual password change.  This seems a bit sloppy, and I'd
like to integrate the two programs, but I can't seem to locate the
source for passwd.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Please email to ftrue@attmail.com

--
Frederick True
AT&T Direct Marketing Information Management
From: ssurgui@ucdacm.denver.colorado.edu (Scott Surguine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Carrier Detect on SS2's ,  IPX's ,  IPC's
Date: 22 Dec 92 23:16:07 GMT


Carrier Detect on SS1's can be set via EEPROM:
Is this also true for SS2's?
What about IPC's,IPX's, & SS10's

--Scott
--E-Mail          ssurgui@ucdacm.denver.colorado.edu

Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
From: bussiere@tohi.DMI.USherb.CA (Luc Bussieres)
Subject: How to configure amd to have a backup server for the executables?
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke, Dept. de Mathematiques et
	d'Informatique.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:09:47 GMT


	Recently we bought a new disk to be able to have two copy on
two different server of the major applications. I have read the
documentation of amd and I am unable to find how to configure it to be
able to use the second server when the first one is down. 

	The first server is name tohi and the applications are under
these 2 directories:
	/export/local/sun4/share
	/export/local/sun4/packages

	The second server is name roselin and the applications are
under these 2 directories:
	/export/local/mirroir/share
	/export/local/mirroir/packages

	My current configuration for these 2 directories for amd is:


#
*               type:=nfs;host!=tohi;rhost:=tohi;rfs:=/export/local/${arch};sublink:="${key}";opts:=rw,grpid,intr,soft,suid
#
#
 
share           host!=tohi;type:=auto;fs:=${map};pref:=${key}/;cache:=all;opts:=rw,grpid,suid,intr,soft
 
share/man       host!=tohi;type:=nfs;rhost:=tohi;rfs:=/export/local/man;opts:=rw,grpid,nosuid,intr,soft
 
share/bin       type:=nfs;host!=tohi;rhost:=tohi;rfs:=/export/local/${arch}/share/bin;opts:=rw,grpid,intr,soft,suid
 
share/include   type:=nfs;host!=tohi;rhost:=tohi;rfs:=/export/local/${arch}/share/include;opts:=rw,grpid,nosuid,intr,soft
 
share/lib       type:=nfs;host!=tohi;rhost:=tohi;rfs:=/export/local/${arch}/share/lib;opts:=rw,grpid,suid,intr,soft
 
share/hosts     host!=tohi;type:=nfs;rhost:=tohi;rfs:=/export/local/hosts;opts:=rw,grpid,nosuid,intr,soft
 
share/sources   type:=nfs;host!=tohi;rhost:=tohi;rfs:=/export/local/sources;opts:=rw,grpid,nosuid,intr,soft 



	Could somebody help me in configuring amd?

				Thanks
	
--
Luc Bussieres ---- System Analyst - Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Sciences 
University of Sherbrooke     
Internet : luc.bussieres@dmi.usherb.ca
Tel: (819) 821-7981
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Evans)
Subject: Solaris 2.1/SunOS 4.1.3 on sun4e
Reply-To: tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com
Organization: DuPont Engineering Physics Laboratory
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:21:25 GMT

I can't find any mention of support for the sun4e architecture
in the release manuals for Solaris 2.1 or SunOS 4.1.3, nor is
there any mention in the Software Tech Bulletin's montly tables.

Can either of these release be installed on 4e's?

Thanks.
-- 
Tim Evans                     |    E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com  |    Experimental Station
(302) 695-9353/7395           |    P.O. Box 80357
EVANSTK AT A1 AT ESVAX        |    Wilmington, Delaware 19880-0357
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: sdh@uicc.com (sheldon haynie)
Subject: sbus board replacement for sparcprinter ?
Keywords: n
Organization: Unitrode Integrated Circuits Corp., Merrimack, NH, USA
Distribution: ne
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:19:31 GMT

Need help on correct part # for a replacement SBUS board for an
IPX to Sparcprinter & parallel printer... The MIS folks made off with the
dead card and can't seem to figure out which one and how much $


thanks


Sheldon Haynie		|
Unitrode IC Corp	| 
7 Continental Blvd.	|
Merrimack, NH 03054	|
FAX:603-424-3460	|voice:603-424-2410 (EST)|	sdh@.uicc.com
*********************************************************************
From: irl@glas.apc.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Date: 27 Dec 92 04:18 MDT
Subject: What's going with tip?
Nf-ID: #N:glas:57800052:000:1118
Nf-From: glas.UUCP!irl    Dec 27 04:18:00 1992


Dear colleagues,

I apologise if it is a FAQ, but I am a new person in the Sun world.

My task was to connect Telebit T-2500 to our Sun-3/160 in order we can
use it both for dial-in and dial-out connections. Sun-3/160 runs SUN OS 4.1.1.
Modem is to be connected to the ALM-2 Multiplexor.

I done all the things enlisted in documentation.
  1) I rebuilt the kernel with proper flags for mcp0
  2) I done
	mv /dev/ttyh0 /dev/ttyd0
        mknod /dev/cua0 c 44 128
  3) I updated /etc/ttytab with the line
     ttyd0 "getty std.9600" vt100 on remote
  4) I made an entry in /etc/remote like
     TEL0:\
  5) I setup modem for valid carrier detect report via 
     ATS131=1

It works fine with one noticeable exception. tip doesn't work. It connects
to modem (anyway it says "connected") but no characters are transmitted.
Such behavior seems to be especially strange because kermit works fine, and
even cat smth. > /dev/cua0 works.

I suppose that it is tip problem, but how to get around it?

Thanks in advance,

Volodya Gurevich.

Moscow IRIS Data Center System Administrator.
e-mail: irl@glas.apc.org

Moscow, Russia.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: eric@redwood047.cray.com (Eric Markwardt)
Subject: Re: Help with Error message -- Conditional Sucess. Data Retry Performed
Originator: eric@redwood047
Reply-To: eric@cray.com
Organization: Cray Research, Inc., Eagan, MN
Date: 21 Dec 92 12:27:54 CST


In article <1h4ii7INNktl@parsifal.umkc.edu>, mlg@.cstp.umkc.edu () writes:
> Sun Administrators:
> 
> Can someone please tell me what the following error message means and what
> action I should take to fix it.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dec 20 05:05:51 sparc1 vmunix: id000h: block 178062 (1876692 abs): read: Conditi
> onal Success. Data Retry Performed.
> Dec 21 01:00:16 sparc1 vmunix: id000h: block 258008 (1956638 abs): read: Conditi
> onal Success. Data Retry Performed.
> Dec 21 03:21:06 sparc1 vmunix: id000h: block 178062 (1876692 abs): read: Conditi
> onal Success. Data Retry Performed.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

From id(4s):

     Conditional Success.  Data Retry Performed.
          The addressee has completed the command but data  retry
          had  to  be  invoked - for example, a physical re-read.
          Data Retry includes all  actions  associated  with  the
          transfer of data.

We see these errors all the time on our IPI drives.  I've seen Sun
documentation that says these are "acceptable" error messages caused by
the drive being too busy at one point.  They're really not anything to
worry about unless you're seeing a ton of them, or if the number you're
seeing changes dramatically.  In this cause, I think I've seen stuff
where a dump/newfs/restore of the filesystem calms things down for a
while.

   -Eric

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