Yes I concur,

All others HBA's work great when I used there own Drivers.  So if you
are using the SUN OEM Qlogics, then I am assuming that you are using
SUN's so called SAN stack. 

That's where I've seen the issues.  Esp. since the 280R are fiber
channel drives and the onboard HBA's for these drives are OEM Qlogic
Cards.  

There is a method to remove the SUN stack and put in the Emulex HBA
drives without giving your O.S a lobotomy.  If that is your case I can
look up my notes and send you the steps


Hope this helps

Sean
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathryn Riddlemoser [mailto:kathy AT mitre DOT org] 
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:56 AM
To: Sean Mohr
Cc: 'Purushotham Rao'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] TLD drive marks down by Netbackup...

Thus far these HBA's work with these OSes in my SAN environment:

JNI w/Sun
Qlogic w/Linux
Emulex w/Windows

Good luck.


Sean Mohr wrote:

> Are you direct attached to the library (Arbitrated Loop) or are you
> going thru a switch (brocade, mcdata etc etc) in fabric mode.
>
> Who's driver stack are you using, SUN's or Qlogics.  Sun's stack does
> not work correctly with LTO drives on fiber channel.
>
> Sean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
> Purushotham Rao
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:35 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] TLD drive marks down by Netbackup...
>
> Hi,
>
> Setup consists of M2500 ATL library with 4 drives and 8slots connected
> in a SAN.
> Netbackup Server is Sunfire 280R with Solaris 8 and Netbackup 4.5,
still
> no maintainance pack installed.
> When fired a backup, the backup happens on all the drives and suddenly
> few drives marks it as down. When checked in /var/adm/messages, I was
> able see
> some "Loop OFFline" as below.
> Is it causing a problem ????
> OR can someone suggest when Netbackup marks the Tape Drive down ????
>
> # tail -f /var/adm/messages
>
> May 28 21:24:18 rakshak qlc: [ID 686697 kern.info] NOTICE: Qlogic
> qlc(1): Loop OFFLINE
> May 28 21:24:22 rakshak qlc: [ID 686697 kern.info] NOTICE: Qlogic
> qlc(1): Link ONLINE
> May 28 21:24:23 rakshak scsi: [ID 243001 kern.info]     Target
0x100cef:
> Device type=0x3 not supported
> May 28 21:24:23 rakshak scsi: [ID 243001 kern.info]
> /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@1/fp@0,0 (fcp1):
> May 28 21:24:23 rakshak         ndi_devi_online: failed for st:
> target=100cef lun=0 ffffffff
> May 28 21:24:23 rakshak tldcd[6561]: [ID 108326 daemon.error] TLD(0)
key
> = 0x0, asc = 0x0, ascq = 0x0, NO ADDITIONAL SENSE INFORMATION
> May 28 21:24:23 rakshak tldcd[6561]: [ID 841094 daemon.error] TLD(0)
> Move_medium error: CHECK CONDITION
> May 28 21:24:24 rakshak tldd[3054]: [ID 304019 daemon.notice] Adding
> media ID EDS109 to unmountable media list
> May 28 21:24:24 rakshak tldd[3054]: [ID 980051 daemon.error] TLD(0)
> drive 2 (device 1) is being DOWNED, status: Robotic mount failure
> May 28 21:24:24 rakshak tldd[3054]: [ID 229259 daemon.error] Check
> integrity of the drive, drive path, and media
> May 28 21:24:24 rakshak tldd[3054]: [ID 968842 daemon.notice] Removing
> media ID EDS109 from unmountable media list
>
> Regards,
> Purushotham
>
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