Hello, I recently attached a Sun Storedge L8 on a Sun280R with Solaris 10. The scsi card is an original Sun one. After modifying the /kernel/drv/sgen.conf as I usually do, and rebooted with reconfigure, I found the correct devices in /dev/rmt and /dev/scsi/changer.
Then I tried to operate on the L8 through the installed command mtx, as I usually do on other machines (mtx -f /dev/scsi/changer/xxxx status). Even though the L8 is loaded with 7 new tapes (and the L8 display panel shows them), the mtx command answers as if all the slots were empty. Then I tried to load slot 1 into slot 0 (the write slot), and the L8 did the job. Then I reissued the status command, but the output was still the same as if the L8 slots were all empty. With the slot 0 loaded (I could see it in the L8 panel) I did a test backup with a tar on the rmt, and I could correctly write and test the written data. So I tried un unload (with no parameter, the command should unload the slot 0 into the previously loaded slot). The output showed that mtx was trying to unload into slot 2! And infact the command did not succede as the slot 2 was full. So I specified an unload into slot 1, and the machine did the job. Running again a status, mtx showed all empty slots!! ...what's happening? do I have something wrong in the sgen dirver? Maybe some patches? Or maybe something wrong in the scsi card? Maybe some switch to move on the scsi card? Please...help! Gabriele. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
