ADSM-L

Re: Some questions.

1996-05-23 18:17:34
Subject: Re: Some questions.
From: Mike Knight <knightm AT VNET.IBM DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 18:17:34 EDT
From: Mike Knight, ISSC Aerospace, (314)234-5096, KNIGHTM at ISSCVM
Inet:                                             KNIGHTM AT VNET.IBM DOT COM
Subject: Re: Some questions.

>On Wed, 22 May 1996, Mike Knight added:
>
>>
>>I just completed testing ADSM V2 for AIX and hit the same problem with the
>>single 8mm I had for testing.  The mt0 would not come available without
>>manual definition.  We never had this with ADSM 1.2.9.

On Thu, 23 May 1996, Chuck Tomlinson added:

>I saw this on our ADSM Servers.  The way I fixed it was after I had configured
>the ADSM devices I rebuilt the boot record to add the mt? devices to it.
>  bosboot -a -d /dev/ipldevices

Here is the script I used to define the test tape drive for both V1 and V2.
It is the same procedure we have used on production libraries with V1 with
no problems.  The definitions look fine after the script runs, but mt0 is
"defined" after a reboot with ADSM Version 2.

##############################################################################
# Remove ADSM tape drives and libraries                                      #
##############################################################################
rmdev -d -l mt0
rmdev -d -l rmt0
##############################################################################
# Make ADSM tape drives and libraries                                        #
##############################################################################
mkdev -c tape     -t 8mm5gb       -s scsi -p scsi0 -w 10 -a block_size=0 #rmt0
mkdev -c adsmtape -t ADSM-SCSI-MT -s scsi -p scsi0 -w 10 -a block_size=0 # mt0
bosboot -a -u -d /dev/ipldevice
##############################################################################
# List ADSM tape drives and libraries                                        #
##############################################################################
lsattr -E -H -l mt0
lsattr -E -H -l rmt0

         Mike (not ADSM support) Knight
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