DL380 G4 DAT72

[Yaniv Klinger]

Another question...
I saw in the bios that all the PCI devices are working on IRQ5. Is it normal?? the smart array 6i is also on IRQ5 as all the rest.
Thanks again

[Kevin Hand]

This definately seems to be a software problem, you can get the tape drive working if you install Enterprise Linux 3 (You will need a driver disk for the embedded 6i Smart Array controller) Once the OS is loaded you can enter the following commands and then the drive will work on /dev/st0

for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0
do
echo "engage scsi" > $x
done

Now this works fine until you install the Proliant Support Pack 7.3 From then on you are back to square one and when you enter the above command all you get is SCSI subsystem already engaged.

If anyone could help with this I would very much appreciate it

[ALee_2]

It works after I do this:

for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0
do
echo "engage scsi" > $x
done

Kevin, thanks a lot

[Harry Meijerink]

It's working, thanks to you all.
After booting the SLES9 I run the
echo "engage scsi" /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0
command.
After that Tapeware can use the DAT for backup.
I wait now for the SLES9 suported version of Tapeware, promissed and of 2004??

[Kevin Hand]

Glad that has helped you guys, unofrtunately still doesn't completely solve my issue.

The commands work on both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 by the way but after installing the HP Proliant Support pack to get all the health drivers etc working the system no longer sees the tape drive and if I try to enter the commands I previously used all I get is "SCSI Subsystem already engaged"

If anyone can get past this I would appreciate the help

Thanks