Remember the @2 is the target number in hexadecimal not decimal.

Brian

Brian Boone
Storage Area Network Specialist
Systems Operations
TELUS Mobility


>From: Darren Dunham [mailto:ddunham AT taos DOT com]
>Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:07 AM
>To: Pete Akre
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Not Seeing My Tape Drive
>
>
>> 
>> Here's another ignorant question. How do I know what target address to 
>> use for this tape drive? I have arbitrarily created entries from 0-20 
>> with no effect.
>
>That depends on your connection adapter and the driver.
>
>For a scsi drive, the adapter will map the scsi target to the t# in the device 
>path.
>
>For a fiber adapter, the adapter has several choices, but generally it will 
>map a single fiber WWPN to a target number.  >The driver can usually do it 
>dynamically (pick a low number), or staticly (create an explicit mapping 
>within the driver >configuration file).
>
>However, you say you already see (and can access) the devices via /dev/rmt/*.  
>Just do an expansion of one of them..
>
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          45 Mar 11  2003 /dev/rmt/8cbn ->
>../../devices/pci@6,2000/JNI,FCE@1/st@2,0:cbn
>
>The "@2" means that this particular drive is on target 2 for this adapter.
>
>
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>Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
>Unix System Administrator                    Taos - The SysAdmin Company
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