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About John Storta, Jr.
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I am a Sun Certified Solaris Administrator. I can answer virtually any question relating to the administration of Sun servers. I have experience installing hardware, managing user accounts, maintaining file systems, setting up backup and recovery plans, configuring Veritas NetBackup, and general troubleshooting.

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I have been a UNIX System Administrator for 5 years. I have implemented 5 systems as a Project Leader. I have seen a wide range of problems over the years and found solutions for all of them.

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Sun Certified Solaris Administrator
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Topic: Sun Operating System



Expert: John Storta, Jr.
Date: 6/21/2001
Subject: Hardware Error

Question
I got this error message on my Sun Enterprise 250:

Jun 21 01:23:21 server8 unix: WARNING: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3 (glm0):
Jun 21 01:23:21 server8 unix:    SCSI bus DATA IN phase parity error
Jun 21 01:23:21 server8 unix: WARNING: ID[SUNWpd.glm.parity_check.6010]
Jun 21 01:23:21 server8 unix: WARNING: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@8,0 (sd7):
Jun 21 01:23:21 server8 unix:    SCSI transport failed: reason 'tran_err': retrying command
Jun 21 01:23:21 server8 unix:

What do You think about it?

Thanks in advance!


Answer
Basically, this indicates that you are having a hardware failure.

You can kind of decipher what hardware is failing by looking at the device path.

WARNING: ID[SUNWpd.glm.parity_check.6010]
WARNING: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@8,0 (sd7)

The pci indicates that this is a PCI card and scsi and sd would indicate that it is a SCSI device, possibly the card itself since it refers to sd7 which is typically the ID assigned to the SCSI controller.

The previous line that references SUNWpd.glm tells me that the device is whatever one uses the glm driver.  I am not familiar with that driver.  SUNWpd looks like a package name to me.

If you run pkginfo -l SUNWpd, you may get some more information on what the package is if it is one.

Hope that helps.

John Storta, Jr.
Sun Certified Solaris Administrator
www.jstorta.com


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