Louis-Luc Le Guerrier wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I'm trying to configure Veritas 3.4 to use the Exabyte 8500
> tape drive, as a standalone unit.
> 
> I'm trying to configure it as a stand-alone drive, using it's
> path /dev/rmt/1bn. It works in plain UNIX with the 'mt'
> command, and 'tar' as well, but with Veritas, I'm unable
> to give it the status UP

Have you tried writing tar to it...rewinding it and then skipping
over the first file (mt fsf 1) and writing the second tar file? 

If it fails then you may have a old driver that doesn't understand 
that the EOF marker must be re-written in order to append the subsequent
file (or netbackup image).

This difficulty will trip up Veritas after it initial writes the first
file which is the software tape label...

-Rudy


> When I type 'vmoprcmd -up 0', I get back the prompt, but
> about 10 seconds later, I get a message on the console saying
> something like "avrd[287]: unable to open Drive0 (<device
> path>) through sg drive. No such device or address, DOWN'ing
> it"
> 
> When I do the 'sgscan' command, I get an error message for
> each possible target and no device is listed, not even the
> disks. It says the /dev/sg/c0t#l0 can't be opened.
> 
> I've also tried sg.build to fix it, but it doesn't solve
> this problem.
> 
> Anyone has a clue? (is this Exabyte 8500 drive supported?)
> 
> Thanks for helping.
> Louis-Luc
> 
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