On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 03:49:30PM -0500, ed.smith AT alliente DOT com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A little more information:
>
> I am running Solaris 8
> I have an A1000 connected to the 220R (works fine)
> I have installed the suggested patches for Amanda and L280
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> can help me here. I have a sun e220r connected to a sun L280 and I have
> a couple questions. First of all, is there a way that I can confirm
> that my server actually "sees" the tape library and the drive?
The low-tech way to make sure the box sees your new SCSI devices
is to do a clean halt to boot prompt then:
OK> reset-all
OK> probe-scsi-all
Confirm the target addresses are what you expected them to be.
Bring it back up with:
OK> boot -r
FOR THE TAPE:
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IIRC, the drive in that box is a DLT-7000, right? For that drive, with
Solaris 8, you won't need to touch st.conf. After the 'boot -r' you
should have /dev/rmt/0* (if you've never had a tape drive on this box
before), and you should be able to 'mt -f /dev/rmt/0n status'. The
devices will be:
0l*: 20G (DLT4000, compression off)
0m*: 40G (DLT4000, compression on)
0h*: 35G (DLT7000, compression off)
0*: 70G (DLT7000, compression on)
0c*: 70G (DLT7000, compression on)
0u*: 70G (DLT7000, compression on)
You can download a nice Solaris st.conf PDF from Quantum, but you don't
need it.
FOR THE CHANGER:
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These days, for Solaris 8, I'm recommending sgen(7D) and mtx. Even if
you don't end up using chg-zd-mtx, mtx itself is nice to have, and the
mtx source includes a nice little contrib/config_sgen_solaris script.
You end up with an sgen.conf something like:
device-type-config-list="changer";
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=0 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=1 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=2 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=3 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=4 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=5 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=6 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=7 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=8 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=9 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=10 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=11 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=12 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=13 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=14 lun=0;
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=15 lun=0;
(You don't *need* every possible target, of course).
This ends up making /dev/scsi/changer/cXtYd0.
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Jay Lessert jay_lessert AT accelerant DOT net
Accelerant Networks Inc. (voice)1.503.439.3461
Beaverton OR, USA (fax)1.503.466.9472
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