TSM STA on solaris

[tsm_dude]

Hi there,

Anyone have experience with TSM STA for lanfree on Solaris ? I cant see the tape drives.
They are zoned, and can see them at solaris level but not with the TSM STA utility to list them. I am reading about rmstdev used to delete the devices picked up with solaris native driver. Looks like this is with 6.3 STA but I have 5.5.
Basically the solaris OS native scsi tape driver prevents the IBM tape driver / STA from getting access to the devices. Looking for easy way to get rid of solaris native driver or disable it etc.

Thanks

 

[Tiger22]

If I remember my Solaris you get rid of the native st devices by editing the /usr/kernel/drv/st.conf file and deleting/commenting out the st entries. You may need also to manually delete the st devices but a reconfigure reboot at least will not bring them back in after the st.conf file has been edited.

 

[tsm_dude]

Thanks Tiger, tried it but no joy. Im now downloading tsm server for solaris which apparently contains rmstdev.

 

[GregE]

In addition to commenting out everything in st.conf, unload the "st" driver.
rem_drv st

 

[tsm_dude]

Yeah thanks guys, did all that plus another reboot and she came good.

thx