Proliant ML350. Addressing an Ultrium 215 Tape Drive With SCO Unix

[Stuart1946]

Hi

I have an HP Proliant ML350 running SCO Unix 5.0.7

The system has a SCSI board in slot 3 running my disc array with no problems.

However I also have an Ultrium 215 tape drive directly attached to a socket on the motherboard. This socket is labelled SCSI 2 (there is also a socket labelled SCSI 1 but this is not in use).

Question: How do I address this tape drive in SCO Unix? What is the adaptor id for the motherboard socket?

Thanks in anticipation.

[Stuart1946]

Thanks to anyone reading this. I am making some progress albeit a little slow.

In the process of configuring the drive I am being asked to identify the drive type do you think "Genric SCSI Tape Drive" would suffice for an Ultrium 215, or would DAT drive be more accurate?

Thanks

[Stuart1946]

I hope nobody thinks I've been wasting their time with this but I have managed to resolve the issue and thought I'd post the solution for others with the same problem.

As root use

sconf -v

This will list all the scsi devices on the system;

Mine were (my headings):

Type    Driver    Adaptor    Bus    ID   Lun

Sdsk    ciss           0                  0      0      0

Sdsk    ciss           0                  0      1      0

Sdsk    ciss           0                  0      2      0

Stp       lsil             1                  0      3     0

Using mkdev tape, first remove any existing configured tape drives then configure the new drive using the parameters

returned by sconf. I used a gerenic tape drive for the 'type' and this seems to work fine.

When I tried to use 1 for the adaptor I was told that it wasn't configured and did I want to update the link kit. I replied 'yes' and that semed to work fine.

Relink the kernel etc and reboot.

Be cautious using sconf (read the manual entry) use only the -v option.