topic Re: Surestore Proliant DL380 G3 in Operating System - Linux

Surestore Proliant DL380 G3

Renato Roncaglia — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:41:49 GMT

Hi,
I have to use a HP Surestore DAT 40x6 (Model C5713A) with a Proliant DL380 G3.
The OS in use is Suse 8.2 and the DAT Autoloader is attacched at the scsi card of Smart Array 5i. I also upgrade the driver by downloading from HP support the latest version for this controller.
Unfortunaly the only thing that I can see is the tape in sequential acces and not in media change!!

Some hint's on problem?

Re: Surestore Proliant DL380 G3

Huc_1 — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:06:35 GMT

I don have such a hardware, but as there are not many answers, to your questions I have done some serach here on itrc forum and I got this link that seem's interesting.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0xe375227a6ab4d711900a0090279cd0f9%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1066910620048+28353475

Hope it helps you

J-P

Re: Surestore Proliant DL380 G3

Stuart Browne — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 18:31:47 GMT

Yeap, as one of the links on that pages states, 'mtx' is your friend.

It's a jukebox/auto-loader tool which allows you to swtch tapes and such under Linux.

The current webpage for the latest dev work on it is at http://mtx.badtux.net/, which lists the DAT40x6 as a compatable device.

Have fun. I just wanna get my hands on one of those autochanges to have a play!

Re: Surestore Proliant DL380 G3

Renato Roncaglia — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:03:41 GMT

Thanks and sorry for being late in assigning points and in replying. The solution to our problem has been to buy a new SCSI card. The one present does not support LUNs different from 0, but only different targets. Since the tape drive and robotics differ by LUN number, we had to buy an Adaptec SCSI card, which supports such configuration.