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[Veritas-bu] Issue with sg links?

2003-03-27 18:24:11
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Issue with sg links?
From: gdrew AT deathstar DOT org (George Drew)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:24:11 -0500 (EST)
A question. Did you put

forceload: drv/sg

in /etc/system? If so, remove it, and reboot. Run sgscan, and see if the
devices are visible.

George

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Arun K Sadaram wrote:

>
> I received couple of mails, now that we have decided to go for a unique 
> vendor probably JNI HBA cards. Thanks for all your suggestions and support.
>
> -Arun
>
>  ckstehman AT pepco DOT com wrote:
> Arun,
>
> We ran into a similar problem at our site.  We were using Qlogic cards an 
> E420 to talk to the SAN with SSO , the other
> media servers were W2K with another brand of HBA card.  After carefully 
> setting up the binding information, we would lose
>  the binding after every re-boot of the Solaris system.  Our Veritas guy said 
> that is is not a good idea to mix vendors for
> HBA cards.
>
> We ended up choosing another option and decided not to use the Solaris box as 
> a media server with the SSO.
>
> This probably doesn't help much, but at least you know you aren't alone.
>
> Many things could cause the backup delay.  Be sure it is not a network issue 
> by checking your NIC settings.
> You may need to configure for 100FDX with no autonegotiate for your switches.
>
> =============================
>
> Carl Stehman
> PHI Services Company
> 202-331-6619
> ckstehman AT pepco DOT com
>
>
>
> Arun K Sadaram <sakumarin AT yahoo.co DOT in>
> Sent by: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> 03/25/2003 02:31 PM
>
>
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>         Subject:        [Veritas-bu] Issue with sg links?
>
>
> Hi All,
> Recently our Sun V480R running Solaris 8 was configured for NB 4.5. We have 
> done persistent binding for Crossroad routers with the Qlogic HBA's. Every 
> thing is running fine, when i run 'sgscan' i can see the list of all my 14LTO 
> drives but once i do a reboot on the server, the LTO's are not visible to 
> 'sgscan' though /dev/sg has all the entries. Now i am running 'sg.install' 
> and getting back the LTO's visible to 'sgscan', i am doing this on every 
> reboot. Has any one encountered the same problem before or am i missing 
> something to do after running sg.install ?
> Since yesterday i'm facing another problem i.e. a delay of more than 8 
> minutes in bringing the backups to queue state after initiating, although my 
> restores are starting within seconds period of time. Any help/comments is 
> appreciated.
> Thanks in Advance
> -Arun
>
>
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