Hi,

        I apologize sending this e-mail to you. I saw your posting at
veritas-bu and you had encountered a similar problem the one I am having
right now. I am using Vertias NetBackup V 3.4 with Solaris 5.7. I have
StorageTek fiber switch connects to a scsi router which is connected to
all the drives from L180 and the fiber switch is also connected to fiber
channel interface to Sun450.i I used sgscan under
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/sgscan and it seems to detect the hard drives as
well as the robot L180 and the drives. Actually the L180 has 6 drives but
it only detects four drives. I tried adding the drives and assigned the no
rewind files as follow:

Drive1  /dev/rmt/0cbn
Drive2  /dev/rmt/1cbn
Drive3  /dev/rmt/2cbn
Drive4  /dev/rmt/3cbn

        When I use sgscan, this is the respond I get.

/dev/sg/c4t1l2: (/dev/rmt/8): "STK     9840"
/dev/sg/c4t3l0: (/dev/rmt/9): "STK     9840"
/dev/sg/c4t3l1: (/dev/rmt/10): "STK     9840"
/dev/sg/c4t3l2: (/dev/rmt/11): "STK     9840"

        As soon as I add these drives and start the media manager daemon,
all drives comes down together, doesn't even stay up for a second.
However, I can update the inventory using the media manager without any
problem. If you have any suggestion or advice for me, I would really
appreciate it. I am little new to this and I didn't expected to be this
complicated. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

        Once again, thank you so much for your time.


Best Regards,
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Kumar Deuja
kdeuja AT kdeuja DOT com
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