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Re: [Networker] inquire cannot see tape devices but Solaris OS can
2008-02-21 16:41:51
Quoting myself from a thread on May 2007:
If the HBA's PCI inquiry string is not in lus.conf, inquire will not
show the devices. I had a similar issue with an Emulex 9802 HBA on a
Sparc 280R with Solaris 9. What you need to do is (that's of course
after the proper installation of HBA drivers, zoning or any other OS
related issues):
Run lusbinfo and find out the inquiry string of your HBA (my two
Emulex shows up as pci10df,f9800 and pci10df,f9801):
# lusbinfo
# busses: 7
Bus #0 is 'pci1000,f0', dma_max=16777215, initiator ID=7, ntargets=16,
nluns=7
Bus #1 is 'pci1000,f1', dma_max=16777215, initiator ID=7, ntargets=16,
nluns=7
Bus #2 is 'pci10df,f9800', dma_max=-1, initiator ID=255, ntargets=32,
nluns=8, lus cloning enabled
Bus #3 is 'pci1077,10162', dma_max=16777215, initiator ID=7,
ntargets=16, nluns=7
Bus #4 is 'pci1077,10163', dma_max=16777215, initiator ID=7,
ntargets=16, nluns=7
Bus #5 is 'fp0', dma_max=16777216, initiator ID=127, ntargets=126, nluns=7
Bus #6 is 'pci10df,f9801', dma_max=-1, initiator ID=255, ntargets=32,
nluns=8, lus cloning enabled
You need to edit /usr/kernel/drv/lus.conf and add this to the end of
the known-scsi-adapters strings pci10df,f980:32-8C . Notice that you
need to omit the last digit. The 32 is number of targets on the bus and
8 is max luns per targets. C stands for cloning (whatever that means,
this was suggested for the Emulex 9000 cards, so I figured it will be
suitable here as well). Anyhow, all these are documented in the file itself.
mark wragge wrote:
Hi, I am stuck on a problem using 2 * HP Ultrium 3 tape devices on a solaris 8
server. The Solaris server can see the tape devices and they are created in
/dev/rmt. I can also see the correct tape drive info in the messages log file
on boot up.
When I run the inquire command I do not see the devices and a scan of the storage node using the NMC finds no devices. I have looked at st.conf and lus.conf but i think that is the OS can see the tape devices then these files are set correctly.
The tape devices are fibre devices presented through a qlogic 2300 HBA. I am using networker 7.3.3. What could be causing the inquire command to not see the tape devices?
thanks
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