[rescue] Solaris 10 (Sparc) SCSI tape problem

[stephen price]

Is this an "IBM" drive?
I've always had to load the IBM tape drivers and bits
for netbackup etc when I used Ultrium anything - like tape libaries etc.  In
fact I'm doing that right now to a new netbackup master server (on redhat
unfortuantely - $work moving away from the new taskmasters of solaris).
regards
steve

--- On Sat, 8/21/10, Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com> wrote:

>
From: Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Solaris 10
(Sparc) SCSI tape problem
> To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Date:
Saturday, August 21, 2010, 2:21 PM
> Isn't there an st.conf or tapes.conf
>
where you need to enter tape geomety?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone, pardon the
typos!
> Jonathan Katz
> 
> On Aug 21, 2010, at 14:53, Phil Stracchino
<alaric at metrocast.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > Folks,
> > I have here a Sun V210 with
a week-and-a-half-old
> Solaris 10 install,
> > and an external IBM Ultrium
TD2 LTO2 drive.  The
> drive is known good;
> > I've been using it for full
backups for nearly a year
> now.  The SCSI
> > controller is known good; the
V210 boots off a ZFS
> mirrored pair of 36G
> > disks on it.  The cable is
known good; it was
> previously connecting one
> > of minbar's two 711s.  At
boot time, an OpenBoot
> probe-scsi-all
> > correctly detects and identifies
the tape drive, at
> SCSI ID 8, which
> > sort of implies the external SCSI
port is
> working.  A strings listing on
> > the st driver confirms that it
specifically knows
> about ULTRIUM TD2 drives.
> > 
> > However, *once Solaris
is booted*, nothing I can do
> will make Solaris
> > see the tape drive.  I've
booted -rv, twice,
> trying to get any nodes
> > created in /dev/rmt; I've
tried both tapes and
> devfsadm, with and
> > without manually loading the st
module first, with and
> without
> > power-cycling the tape drive first, at
least half a
> dozen times in every
> > combination I can think of.  /dev/rmt
remains
> stubbornly empty.  I'm
> > drawing a complete blank.
> > 
> > Am I
missing something obvious?  Can anyone give
> me any pointers on
> > getting
Solaris to see the drive?
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> >  Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 
>
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> > 
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>
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