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______________________________ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.computechresources.com goc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: To Dist Stor [email protected] Manager" cc <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> Subject storage agent / tapeutil question for HPUX 12/27/2005 09:59 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> hi all, after installing tapeutil and atdd for HPUX i must detect serial numbers for tape devices, after starting tapeutil and opening device /dev/rmt/1mnb i get Device /dev/rmt/1mnb opened. INQUIRY rc 22 (Invalid argument) The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument Failure obtaining device PID ioscan returns for one tape tape 2 0/10/0/0.1.18.255.12.9.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE IBM ULT3580-TD1 /dev/rmt/2m /dev/rmt/2mnb /dev/rmt/c28t9d0BESTn /dev/rmt/2mb /dev/rmt/c28t9d0BEST /dev/rmt/c28t9d0BESTnb /dev/rmt/2mn /dev/rmt/c28t9d0BESTb i'm confused about STAPE parameter, on test platform which did ok i get tape 1 0/5/0/0.5.17.255.12.12.0 atdd CLAIMED DEVICE IBM ULT3580-TD1 /dev/rmt/1m /dev/rmt/1mnb /dev/rmt/c3t12d0BESTn /dev/rmt/1mb /dev/rmt/c3t12d0BEST /dev/rmt/c3t12d0BESTnb /dev/rmt/1mn /dev/rmt/c3t12d0BESTb ATDD worked fine during installation the production server hanged and we needed a reboot ! how to get rid of loaded STAPE driver (i asume it's a driver) and make it use atdd (if installed correctly) #dmesg returns among other stuff this ... atdd: load() called atdd: Class is tape atdd: control init! atdd: Load complete! storage agent is version 5.3.1.5 server is 5.3.1.5 the communication works fine here is a tapeutil tryout - +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | IBM SCSI TAPE & MEDIUM CHANGER UTILITY PROGRAM | +------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | << GENERAL COMMANDS >> | << SERVICE COMMANDS >> | | 1: Open Device | 3: Query Serial Number | | 2: Close Device | 4: Query Microcode Level | | D: Device Type | 5: Force Dump | | M: Menu Refresh | 6: Store Dump | | Q: Quit Program | 7: Download Microcode | | | 8: Query Driver Level | +------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | << BASIC SCSI COMMANDS >> | | 9: Test Unit Ready 10: Inquiry 11: Request Sense | | 12: Log Sense Page 13: Mode Page 14: Reserve on close | | 15: Release 16: Prevent/Allow Media Removal | +------------------------------+--------------------------------+ ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) ==> 13 Device not opened. ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) ==> d Device not opened. ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) ==> 1 Enter device special file name (e.g., /dev/rmt/1mnb): /dev/rmt/9m Select open mode (1=read-write, 2=read, 3=write, 4=append): 2 Device /dev/rmt/9m opened. INQUIRY rc 22 (Invalid argument) The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument Failure obtaining device PID ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) ==> d Unable to verify device attachment: Invalid argument The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) ==> 3 IOC_INQUIRY_PAGE for page 0x80 failed. The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument Failure obtaining tape device serial number: Invalid argument The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) ==> 4 Cannot identify device type. ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) ==> 8 Failure obtaining the version of ATDD: Invalid argument The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) ==> 12 Enter Log Page code in hex: 80 Enter parameter code in hex or <enter> for all parameters: IOC_LOG_SENSE_PAGE for page 0x80 failed. The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) ==> 13 Enter Mode Page code in hex: 80 IOC_MODE_SENSE for page 0x80 failed. The IOC_REQUEST_SENSE ioctl failed: Invalid argument ENTER COMMAND ('M' for Menu) ==> . . . i asume that atdd didn't after all install/load correctly, what do you think ? another thing on test machine command # /opt/atdd/bin/atdd_cfg -g DEVICES DEVICES: 6 it gives 6 which is okay ... but on new machine --> /opt/atdd/bin/atdd_cfg -g DEVICES Error opening Configuration file /dev/rmt/atdd.cfg: rc=-1, errno=2 it seems that atdd configuration is broken ... what to do ? remove it then reinstall ? how will device recognize that they need atdd ? does insf -e has options for defining which drivers shoud tape devices use ? sooo many questions, so little answers on these holidays ... :-| sorry for long post but i really need help, thanks for any clue goran merry xmas and happy new year
