On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:31:03AM -0900, Kevin S Secor wrote: > sorry bout that the OS is sol 9
Great. So the only caveat here is that I've never personally run MTX/sgen on a fibre-connected robot. No reason that shouldn't be totally transparent (just like the tape drives themselves), I've just never done it myself. My more-or-less standard Solaris/Amanda/MTX spiel: Build and install MTX, from http://mtx.badtux.net. Read the shell script contrib/config_sgen_solaris.sh from the MTX source directory and use that to teach yourself what to do. Resist the temptation to just run the script; even if it would work, it's not exactly what you want. The steps would be something like: 0) Read the sgen(7D) man page first, just to get a little familiar with it. You don't have to completely understand it. You will *not* use sgen(7D) devices to read/write your tape drives (you already have st(7D) devices for that). You will only use sgen(7D) to talk to the robot. [That's not *quite* true... MTX's tapeinfo is can be very useful, and you might want to look at using sgen(7D) for that later.] 1) You already have /kernel/drv/sgen.conf, with all entries commented out, correct? Create a new sgen.conf that points at your robot. If, for example, it is at SCSI target 5, sgen.conf might look like: device-type-config-list="changer"; name="sgen" class="scsi" target=5 lun=0; The tape drive and robot should be at different addresses in some way; they might be two different targets, both lun=0, or one target with two luns (logical unit numbers). probe-scsi-all should show you. 2) # rem_drv sgen You shouldn't see any alarming messages here, sgen shouldn't be loaded at all. # add_drv -v sgen The "-v" should make comments about finding your controller and making device entries for it. Now you should have /dev/scsi/changer/c?t0d0, and you should be able to go: # mtx -f /dev/scsi/changer/c?t0d0 inquiry # mtx -f /dev/scsi/changer/c?t0d0 status -- Jay Lessert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Accelerant Networks Inc. (voice)1.503.439.3461 Beaverton OR, USA (fax)1.503.466.9472
