topic Re: Wrong tapedrive detected. in Operating System - HP-UX

Wrong tapedrive detected.

Jed Ronan Escoreal — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:56:11 GMT

Hi UX gurus,

I have an HP rp3440 running on 11.11 w/ an HP LTO2 tapedrive attached to it. Ran "ioscan -fnC tape" to check the tapedrive but it's not being detected, infact, another tapedrive is showing up on the results, it's an HP DDS4 tapedrive. I was wondering why the LTO drive is missing when 2 weeks ago, the same time I connected it to the machine, I was able to create an ignite backup using it.

Already removed the device files(rmsf /dev/rmt/*)the hardware address (rmsf -H

) and also restarted the server but still the DDS tapedrive is detected and the LTO drive is missing. Also initially checked the server itself to make sure that no other tapedrives were connected except for the LTO2 drive.

I would appreciate your assistance.

thanks,
Jed

Re: Wrong tapedrive detected.

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:24:07 GMT

Hi Jed,

The first way to solve this problem refresh drivers on system with;

# insf -e

(insf - install special (device) files,With the -e option, insf reinstalls the special files for pseudo drivers and existing devices. )

try this ?

Re: Wrong tapedrive detected.

Jed Ronan Escoreal — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:46:08 GMT

Hi Hakki,

Thanks but this was my bad, i overlooked the server's backpane, there was really another drive connected and the LTO2 drive's cable was defective. Problem already solved.

thanks,
Jed

Re: Wrong tapedrive detected.

Jed Ronan Escoreal — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:49:54 GMT

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