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[Veritas-bu] Sg / sgen driver issue

2006-05-10 15:00:55
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Sg / sgen driver issue
From: gmackinn AT ford DOT com (MacKinnon, G. R. (Gregory))
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:00:55 -0400
Song, Young wrote:

>I'm trying to set up Sun Fire-480R as a new backup server to replace an old
>one and in a situation where I'm stuck and thus want to ask here.
>
>I'm running Solaris 8 with all the latest Solaris patches including st
>driver patch, etc. & latest SAN Foundation Kit 4.4.9. 
>
>And I have a FC-attached HP MSL 5060 library with 2 LTO-1 drives via Brocade
>Silkworm switches.
>
>After installing NetBackup v5.1, I tried following the steps in
>MediaMgr_DeviceConfig_Guide.txt but no matter what I tried, I couldn't have
>it see both tape drives properly and I believe it's something to do with
>sg.conf, sg.links, & devlink.tab files. However, I may be wrong.
>
>I tried all I could try with cfgadm, devfsadm, luxadm, zoning, etc. and know
>that I have all the proper connections and the box can see the library
>itself but not all the drives.
>
>Anyone experienced similar things and have any advice?
>
>
>Thank you in advance!!!
>
>
>- Young
>
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Young,
If your /kernel/drv/st.conf  and sg.conf aren't correct all the
commands *adm commands won't do a thing. I'd start with
the st.conf. And there is probably a ????.conf file for whatever
kind of hba you're using on the 480.

Gregg