False Drive Fault Reported at Power On (BugID 4343998, 4316483)

When you power on the system, it may report a false internal drive fault that is recorded in the Sun Remote System Control (RSC) log history.

If the error is reported by RSC, you should disregard the report if the system boots successfully to the Solaris operating environment. In most cases the erroneous fault does not reappear. You can verify the disk after the boot process by using the fsck utility.

Any disk drive error message reported by the Solaris operating environment is a real disk drive error.

If a disk fault is reported at the ok prompt and the system fails to boot to the Solaris operating environment, there may be a problem with the disk drive. Test the disk drive with the OpenBoot Diagnostics tests documented in the “Diagnostics, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting” chapter in the Sun Fire 280R Server Service Manual.