>Hi Kelly,
>My experience is with AIX, not Solaris, but:
>
>First make sure that the drives are available to Solaris.
>With AIX you do that via SMIT, I don't know how it's done with Solaris,
>should be in the admin guide.
>
>But when I'm having trouble getting drives to work on an AIX ADSM host,
I've
>found the best thing to do is to open the silo, and manually put a tape in
a
>drive.  Then try to TAR something to that tape.  If you can, then your
>problem is with ADSM.  If you can't, the problem is somewhere in your
>hardware, or your the device drivers.
>
>ACSLS doesn't get involved in data flow, after all - that goes directly
over
>the SCSI connection from the host to the drive.  The only thing that flows
>to ACSLS is robotic commands for mounting the tapes.  So sometimes for
>debugging it's just easier to eliminate ACSLS from the equation.
>
>Wanda
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robinson, Cris [SMTP:Cris.Robinson AT LIBERTYMUTUAL DOT COM]
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 10:11 AM
>> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>> Subject:      Re: Solaris 2.7, ACSLS and DLT7000 Configuration hints
>>
>> I take my last statement back. Drives are defined with mt#.#.#.#.
>>
>> The rmt is how unix sees the drive.
>>
>> I shall contemplate this one again.
>>
>> CR
>>
>> __________________________________________________
>> Cris Robinson
>> Sr. Technical Analyst
>> Enterprise Storage Management / TSM (ADSM)
>> Liberty Mutual Insurance
>> Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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>>
>>         -----Original Message-----
>>         From:   Kelly J. Lipp [SMTP:lipp AT STORSOL DOT COM]
>>         Sent:   Monday, October 25, 1999 4:51 PM
>>         To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>>         Subject:        Solaris 2.7, ACSLS and DLT7000 Configuration
hints
>>
>>         Folks,
>>
>>         We're having trouble defining the drives in the silo.  We were
>> able
>> to define the library, indicating the communications to ACSLS are
>> functional, but a define drive hangs ADSM.  Does someone have a cookbook
>> approach to configuring ADSM on Solaris 2.7 to the ACSLS?
>>
>>         TIA,
>>
>>         Kelly Lipp
>>         SSSI
>