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Re: [Networker] SCSI inventory: EMC INQ utility -vs- Networker "inquire" command

2008-03-29 20:16:01
Subject: Re: [Networker] SCSI inventory: EMC INQ utility -vs- Networker "inquire" command
From: Scott Harney <scott.harney AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:59:34 -0500
On Solaris 10 you don't need to worry about lus_add_fp_devs and lus.conf. If
you're using leadville drivers with your Qlogic or Emulex cards, cfgadm -al
should see the tape drives and the changer interfaces (If it's on fiber).
inquire should see them as well.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Howard Martin <howard.martin AT eds DOT com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:58:10 -0500, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney AT NDSU DOT EDU>
> wrote:
>
> >In regard to: [Networker] SCSI inventory: EMC INQ utility -vs-
> Networker...:
> >
> >> Sorry for the very long post... if anyone knows of a separate SCSI
> >> inventory utility that can "sniff out" the tape library I'd appreciate
> >> knowing which one.
> >
> >I've found the Linux sg3_utils to be incredibly useful under Linux, and
> >many of the tools build and work under recent Solaris.  This includes the
> >sg_inq command, but you have to give it a device file, so it may not work
> >for what you need.
> >
> >Tim
>
> Networker will automatically make a lus device if the fibre cards used are
> predefined in /usr/kernel/drv/lus.conf if not then you need to run
> lus_add_fp_devs to know about the jukebox , this script on Solaris uses
> luxadm and what luxadm works with depends on the version of Solaris.
> If memory serves me in Solaris 8 or less then it will only look for Qlogix
> cards, in Solaris 9 it picks up Emulex cards as well and I don't know what
> it does in Solaris 10!
>
> PPS and it didn't work with solaris 9 and a Sun V245 with Sun's emulex
> cards because the path to the devices was too long for luxadm !!!
>
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