Fibre discs getting IO error

Hi, we have a fibre RAID array attached to several servers. The HPUX servers and AIX servers, whenever they experience a blip, pause for a while and then try and soldier on. The Intel Solaris boxes however, sever the links to the discs and come back with IO error, the solution is to unmount the discs and remount them.
I have changed the mount option from the default of onerror=panic to onerror=lock. This at leasts stops the servers from rebooting.
Is there a way to tell the servers to either wait a while before panicing or to soldier on through it. There isn't any problem with the discs, it is just a rogue IBM box sometimes manages to initialise the fibre switch, the long term solution is to fix the switch, short term, I want to be able to tell the solaris boxes to be a little more tolerant of blips.
I've looking in cmdk.conf, sd.conf and also vfstab but nothing either in the files nor in the man pages seems to suggest there is cure.
Anybody any clues?
Cheers

Hi:
I can't help you with why the recovery disks aren't working but if you can still read all 25 characters of the W7 product key on the bottom of your notebook, you can make a plain W7 installation disk and use that to reinstall W7.
Most dv7 consumer PC's come with W7 Home Premium 64 bit, so here is the direct link to the Microsoft digital river W7 x64 Home Premium SP1 ISO file.
http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24209.iso Windows 7 Home Premium x64 English
Make sure you get the whole file to download. Sometimes it reports download complete but you didn't get the whole 3.xx GB file.
Then either use your DVD burning program's burn ISO file option to burn the file to a DVD so that it is bootable.
Burn at the slowest speed you can.
Or, use this tool to transfer the file to a 4 GB USB flash drive or DVD. This tool will also make the media bootable.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool
Then go to your PC's support page to get the available driver and software you need.

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