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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