Jorge,

There are some important things that you have to know about configuring a
SAN with tape libraries. The first thing is that you have use dedicated HBAs
for the tape drives, because the tape drives use FC-AL protocol while disks
use point-to-point.

The second thing is in the panel of the 3584 you can see the loop IDs of the
tape drives? If no, you have to configure the 3584. Even without the right
device driver, you should see the tape drives recognized by the S.O. What
are you seeing in your /var/adm/messages? What's the version of your IBMTape
driver?

Regards,

Anderson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jorge Andrés Salinas Girodengo" <jsalinas AT ITESM DOT MX>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 6:12 PM
Subject: 3584 on Solaris trough SAN


Hi everyone

I've been trying to set up TSM backup procedures on a Solaris 8 server
trough a SAN. My TSM server is on the same SAN (made up of 2109 F16s). I
have a problem setting up the Qlogic HBA supposedly supported by the 3584 to
the appropriate F-Code and driver levels, 2.00.01 and 5.06, respectively.
The IBMTape driver just can't load on the solaris environ and there are no
other scsi tape devices on the system so I just negate ST load to avoid
conflicts. Still, I can't get to the appropriate levels on the device the
HBA is supposedly a QLOGIC 2200F bought from Sun. I know this is not a TSM
problem exactly but I wanted to know if any of you had this problem before
and more importantly how to correct it.

Thank you all.

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Dirección de Desarrollo Tecnológico
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