Read Before Installing or Updating to HP-UX 11i Version 2, October 2003

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System Crash Dump May Fail with Seagate Disk
Drives and Specific Adapter Cards
Problem
In rare cases, a system crash dump may fail when writing to
Seagate disk drives connected via a A5149A, A5150A, A6828A,
A6829A, A5838A SCSI Host Bus Adaptor, or Ultra2/Ultra160
core I/O card. This issue has only been seen with this
configuration.
What You See
You may see the following error messages on a system panic or
TOC:
"ERROR: can't open dump device <device> Dump
aborted"
or
"ERROR: can't write to dump device <device> Dump
aborted"