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Asset ID: 1-72-1268567.1
Update Date:2012-06-26
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Solution Type  Problem Resolution Sure

Solution  1268567.1 :   T10000 - Drives Not Being Configured Properly Under Linux Red Hat Application  


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  • Sun StorageTek T10000A Tape Drive
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In this Document
Symptoms
Changes
Cause
Solution
 


Applies to:

Sun StorageTek T10000A Tape Drive - Version Not Applicable and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Checked for relevance on 15-May-2012.

Symptoms

Customer looking for drivers for T10000A drives in a SL8500 /Linux Red Hat, Data Protector.
Can see the T10000 tape drives but they are showing up as two separate standalone drives scsi address /dev/nst1 & /dev/nst0.

Changes

Added drives to SL8500 library.

Cause

HP Data Protector Application

Data Protector is at 5.1
Lenux is at 4.11

Solution

-There are no Linux Drivers.
-OS should configure drives with the native drivers.
-The OS and Data Protector are seeing the drives just fine.
-Data Protector doesn't have the drives configured properly under the library....they're showing up as standalone.
-Need to configure things correctly in Data Protector and define it in the acs/acsls mapping.

You need to do a manual configuration of the drives via Data Protector.  The drives will not auto config properly as there is no control path due to being attached to a library.  Assuming the library is already configured, all you need to do is add the drives.

The final fix was:
A scsitab file which has a definition and configuration information for the T10KA drive.  This was provided by HP Engineering.



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