topic Re: how to find the cliamed tape drive in Operating System - HP-UX

how to find the cliamed tape drive

rajesh73 — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:30:26 GMT

during ioscan -fnC tape command below mentioned output shows.but so many tape drive shows in claimed state .physically server connected 3 ultrium tape drive (this located in msc6000)

kindly find the attached output

Re: how to find the cliamed tape drive

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:54:23 GMT

It looks like these are fibre connected devices. How may fibre cards do you have in your system? How many connections from your server to the msc6000?

My guess is that the server is seeing each different path to the drives as a unique drive.

Re: how to find the cliamed tape drive

rajesh73 — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:49:59 GMT

1 fiber chanel card connected in server

Re: how to find the cliamed tape drive

Manix — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:47:43 GMT

Please run ioscan -funC fc & check the drives connected to the FC path.

Thanks
Manix

Re: how to find the cliamed tape drive

Torsten. — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 06:41:32 GMT

Even a stacked MSL6000 can have not more than 16 drives - but you have around 30!
Please tell some more details about your configuration (how many drives, connection details, etc ...).

Re: how to find the cliamed tape drive

Larry Klasmier — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:04:27 GMT

Are you connecting to these tape drives directly or through a SAN switch? If through a switch, check your zoning, do you have other devices zoned in with this server and library?

Re: how to find the cliamed tape drive

Torsten. — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:33:02 GMT

First of all I would connect to the NSR and check the mapping.