Networker

Re: [Networker] Setting up a tape library on RH Linux via fibre

2007-07-19 18:22:36
Subject: Re: [Networker] Setting up a tape library on RH Linux via fibre
From: Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:19:43 -0700
> I am setting up a new Red Hat Linux ES 4 server with a Qualstar tape  
> library.

What library?

> For testing, I just installed NetWorker 7.2.1 server, but it  
> will be a storage node when it goes into production. Anyway, the  
> library is connected to a Qlogic SANbox Express 1400 which has four  
> fibre channel cables running to a Dell 2950 with three Qlogic HBA  
> cards in it (although I am only using two of them now). After much  
> puttering around, I can get "inquire -l" to see the four LTO-3 tape  
> drives in this new library, but I am at a loss as to how to make the  
> robot's information appear in the "inquire -l" output. When I try to  
> use jbconfig, it can't find the tape library.

Do the cables go only to the drives, or does the library have a separate
interface that's used?


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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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