adpu320: host adapter hardware failure

[martvar]

In /var/adm/messages file I have found the following:

adpu320: [ID 368597 kern.warning] WARNING: adpu320: host
adapter hardware failure

Does such an SCSI adapter failure mean that it have to
be changed or is it possible such an error can sometimes
occur without worring about the adapter?

Here is some detailed listening:

Oct 17 19:00:10 adpu320: [ID 452799 kern.notice] CF1DA010 badseq CallerID 3F
Oct 17 19:00:10 adpu320: [ID 499380 kern.warning] WARNING: HIM_EVENT_HA_FAILED
Oct 17 19:00:10 adpu320: [ID 517291 kern.warning] WARNING: adpu320: overrun
Oct 17 19:00:10 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci8086,2545@3/pci8086,1460@
1d/pci8086,341a@7,1/sd@1,0 (sd17):
Oct 17 19:00:10 incomplete write- retrying
Oct 17 19:00:10 adpu320: [ID 368597 kern.warning] WARNING: adpu320: host adapter hardware failure
Oct 17 19:00:10 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci8086,2545@3/pci8086,1460@
1d/pci8086,341a@7,1/sd@1,0 (sd17):
Oct 17 19:00:10 SCSI transport failed: reason 'tran_err': retrying command
Oct 17 19:00:10 adpu320: [ID 368597 kern.warning] WARNING: adpu320: host adapter hardware failure

 

[martvar]

Any ideas?

 

[bfitzmai]

There are some patches available for the adpu320 SCSI Host adapter... Most of them are for the Solaris x86 OS...

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-116908-06-1

 

[martvar]

1.Do you think it is a problem of the driver,
is it possible that it complains to adapter
harware error because of its own incorrect behavior?
2.When it warns about adapter hardware failure
and it is really hardware failure of the adapter
what does it mean, can such errors arise time to time
and can they be ignored,
or such an error points to wrong hardware which
should be replaced?