SCO

Hi

same as last week i came in this morning and the server could not be pinged etc. but the server was on.

I looked in the osmlog file and it had the following:

WARNING: (adsb,1) Adaptec PCI SCSI: Illegal Sector Size (00000000)


WARNING: (adsb,1) Adaptec PCI SCSI: Illegal Sector Size (00000000)


WARNING: (adsb,1) Adaptec PCI SCSI: Illegal Sector Size (00000000)


WARNING: (adsb,1) Adaptec PCI SCSI: Illegal Sector Size (00000000)

Jun 17 02:22:51 in.xntpd[947]: synchronized to 128.118.25.3, stratum=2
Jun 17 02:22:50 in.xntpd[947]: time reset (step) -1.028563 s
Jun 17 02:22:50 in.xntpd[947]: synchronisation lost

WARNING: (adsb,1) Adaptec PCI SCSI: Illegal Sector Size (00000000)


WARNING: (adsb,1) Adaptec PCI SCSI: Illegal Sector Size (00000000)

Is your tape drive on the adsb controller? And is it the only device on that controller?

There is a known bug that tape drives would give that message. SCO response was to ignore the message and that the development team had been notified. So if your tape drive is the only device on the adsb controller then this isn't the issue.

Next time this happens, on the Unix server, try this command

ping localhost

This will show if the TCP network stack is working at all.