Yhello all,

Amanda is great! Been using it for about a week now on our production servers (e250's).

I now want to put another tape drive onto an Ultra10 I have for off-site backups. It's all connected but I can't get solaris to detect the tape drive - obviously I'm doing something wrong. Even tried updating /kernel/drv/st.conf and booting with "boot -vr" but the e250's didn't need to. Maybe I need to add the "tape" alias?

The major difference is the e250's connect, via wide scsi cables, to the controller on-board. I've grabbed a scsi controller and put it into a pci slot of this ultra10. However, the connector to the ultra10 is "thin" so perhaps I'm trying to fit a square into a circle?

Anyways, I know this is not exactly an amanda question but a Solaris config issue and any help in pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. I can't find much info out there.

uname -a: SunOS crafty 5.8 Generic 108528-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
tape unit: Sony SDX-S300C (AIT Drive)

Cheers,
Gordon (gcormack AT powerserve.com DOT au)