Len, This message means that you have some device in the path to your tape drive that isn't happy with 16-byte CDBs (some scsi-3 commands). This one in particular is the scsi-3 "WRITE ATTRIBUTE" command.
(Reference: http://t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/spc4/spc4r04.pdf) George On Sat, 13 May 2006, Len Boyle wrote:
Good Day, We upgraded a netbackup master running on solaris 9 from 5.1mp3 to 60MP2. This master runs ndmp backups on 6 R200's with fibre direct attached IBM LTO-2 tape drives. After the netbackup upgrade, with no changes with the tape drives, tape library or netapps we started to see the following messages in the /etc/messages file on the netapp. We are being told by netapp and symantec that this is a problem with scsi commands, but they report that they can not tell us what the offending scsi commands are, unless we hook up a sniffer. So my question to this group, is Any hints on what one should use to act as a sniffer for this scsi connection? That is what company makes good sniffers, and what are the different features one should look for? Thanks for any info you guys can throw this way. Fri May 12 07:54:31 EDT [scsi.cmd.contingentAllegiance:error]: Device 3a.51: Contingent allegiance: cdb 0x8d. Fri May 12 08:00:01 EDT [kern.uptime.filer:info]: 8:00am up 57 days, 18:59 427592 NFS ops, 3947850238 CIFS ops, 9 HTTP ops, 0 DAFS ops, 0 FCP ops, 0 iSCSI ops Fri May 12 08:03:16 EDT [scsi.cmd.contingentAllegiance:error]: Device 3b.52: Contingent allegiance: cdb 0x8d. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
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