The bridges are Pathlight SAN Gateways.  I have 2 Gateways.  Each one
controls 3 IBM Ultrium LTO drives in an Adic Scalar 100 Library.
The HBAs are Emulex LP8000.   lpfc 4.11c





                    Gregory Demilde
                    - System               To:     marc.levitan AT PFPC DOT com
                    Support                cc:
                    Engineer               Subject:     Re: [Networker] 
Persistent Bindings?
                    <Gregory.Demild
                    e AT Sun DOT COM>

                    05/19/2003
                    08:31 AM
                    Please respond
                    to Gregory
                    Demilde -
                    System Support
                    Engineer





Marc,

What kind of FC HBA are you using? What kind of Tape drives are you using?

Greg

| Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 08:18:57 -0400
| From: Marc Levitan <marc.levitan AT PFPC DOT com>
| Subject: [Networker] Persistent Bindings?
| To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
|
| I have 4 storage nodes using Dynamic Drive Sharing.
| Everything was working properly for a while.  The storage nodes directly
| accessed the tape drives across the SAN.
|
| Now, everything is NOT working.  When I try to access the drives across
the
| SAN I get read open errors and I/O errors.  The tapes then get stuck in
the
| drives and I have to manually move them and perform a reset and inventory
| on the library.
|
| I looked at the inquire command and the tape drives are listed but they
are
| not mapped to a device path.
|
| I believe that this is the issue.
| I think that I could do a   rm /dev/rmt*  and a reboot -- -r to pick up
the
| drive mappings, but what happens the next time the server reboots?
|
| Something in my configuration must  have changed.  Maybe st.conf or
| lpfc.conf???
|
| Has anyone experienced this and have a solution?
| I would like to configure persistent bindings so that the config will
stay
| the same after server reboots.
|
| Networker Server is Solaris 8, Networker 6.1
| Networker Client is Solaris 6 and Solaris 8 all Networker 6.1
|
|
| Thanks,
| Marc Levitan
| Storage Management Specialist
| PFPC Global Funds Services
|
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