They are fibre into the Solaris host.



-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry [mailto:juanino AT yahoo DOT com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:36 PM
To: Piszcz, Justin; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Cc: Girard, Dan
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] L700 StorageTek Question w/Veritas

Are they fibre to the Solaris host, or fibre into a
SAN?

--- "Piszcz, Justin" <jpiszcz AT servervault DOT com> wrote:
> I am using an L700 tape library.
> 
>  
> 
> 5- STK9840 drives
> 
> 4- HPUltrium2-SCSI Drives
> 
>  
> 
> All drives connect via fiber.
> 
> The host is a SunOS 5.8 box running Veritas
> NetBackup 5.1.
> 
> There is something going on with the Fiber+I/O Port
> Configuration.
> 
> Basically a couple weeks ago the first four STK9840
> tape drives went
> down (in veritas: DOWN/TLD) when Veritas tries to
> write to these tape
> drives.
> 
> We get "I/O port error cannot open port."
> 
>  
> 
> I thought it was an issue with the drives.
> 
>  
> 
> I changed the fiber loop for the A/B addresses for
> the four STK9840
> drives to 02/02, 03/03, 04/04, 05/05.
> 
> After I did this, four of the drives came up
> successfully but then four
> other drives went down.
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone know the key to setting the fiber
> addresses?
> 
>  
> 
> The panel says:
> 
>  
> 
> 1-125 for HARD PORT (this is what I am using)
> 126 for SOFT PORT (this disables the port)
> 
>  
> 
> Are there any StorageTek technicians or users of the
> L700 who may have
> had similar problems in the past?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>  
> 
> Justin.
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