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Connecting to 3583 LTO with A6795A card

 
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Murray Lawrence
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Connecting to 3583 LTO with A6795A card

Im trying to connect an IBM 3583 LTO tape library to a HP-UX 11.00 L2000 box across 2 Tachyon A6795A card. After installing the ATDD driver and running ioscan, the device files for the 3580 drives (/dev/rmt/*m) are missing but the media changer device files are there (/dev/rmt/*chng)
Please can anyone help.
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Spyros Fidas_1
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Re: Connecting to 3583 LTO with A6795A card

Run insf -e -C tape. It will create the driver for all tape devices or insf -e -H
Murray Lawrence
Occasional Advisor

Re: Connecting to 3583 LTO with A6795A card

Hi Spyros, insf -e -C tape didn't work.
It installed special files for existing tape drive. I don't have the hardware path.
Any other suggestions.
Spyros Fidas_1
Occasional Advisor

Re: Connecting to 3583 LTO with A6795A card

Running ioscan, the changer must appear as Class autochr , Driver schgr. If it has the atdd driver, then you must change atdd_autochk parameter from 1 to 0.
In order to confirm that you see the changer correctly try
mc -p /dev/rmt/*chng -r DS
It will report the The slots and drives. If this doesn't work try removing the atdd driver and let unix handle the device with stape (tape) and schgr (changer) drivers.
Murray Lawrence
Occasional Advisor

Re: Connecting to 3583 LTO with A6795A card

an extract of the ioscan -fun output :
tape 1 0/1/0/0.1.17.239.0.0.7 atdd CLAIMED DEVICE IBM
ULT3583-TL

(there are 68 instances of CLAIMED devices for the media changer ; why I don't know).

The kernel parm is set to 1 :
"atdd_autoch 1"

the output of the mc -p is :
DT_slot_1 EMPTY
DT_slot_2 EMPTY
ST_slot_1 EMPTY
ST_slot_2 EMPTY
ST_slot_3 EMPTY
ST_slot_4 EMPTY
ST_slot_5 EMPTY
ST_slot_6 EMPTY
ST_slot_7 EMPTY
ST_slot_8 EMPTY
ST_slot_9 EMPTY
ST_slot_10 EMPTY
ST_slot_11 EMPTY
ST_slot_12 EMPTY
ST_slot_13 EMPTY
ST_slot_14 EMPTY
ST_slot_15 EMPTY
ST_slot_16 EMPTY
ST_slot_17 EMPTY
ST_slot_18 EMPTY
ST_slot_19 EMPTY
ST_slot_20 EMPTY
ST_slot_21 EMPTY
ST_slot_22 EMPTY
ST_slot_23 EMPTY
ST_slot_24 EMPTY
Spyros Fidas_1
Occasional Advisor

Re: Connecting to 3583 LTO with A6795A card

The tape and the changer are correctly configured. Try
ioscan -fnC tape
The device file will be /dev/rmt/*m , /dev/rmt/*mn ,/dev/rmt/*mnb
You shuld see 2 tapes, one for each drive of the library.
About the 68 times you see the claimed media changer driver, could you send an output of
ioscan -fnC autoch
Murray Lawrence
Occasional Advisor

Re: Connecting to 3583 LTO with A6795A card

The # ioscan -fnC tape only generates the /dev/rmt/*chng device files. It does not generate the /dev/rmt/*m[nb] etc device files. This is the crux of the problem. Also , the library does not get configured as "autochgr", but as "atdd". We are using the IBM's device driver called "atdd" which is custom written for the IBM 3583 Ultrium Scalable Tape Library. We are now looking at configuring the device HW paths (combining the library HW paths with the instance numbers 1 and 2) inside the kernel in "driver $address atdd" into the kernel, as well as putting it into /etc/rc.config.d/atdd.cfg as suggested in some other thread on this subject.
Spyros Fidas_1
Occasional Advisor

Re: Connecting to 3583 LTO with A6795A card

According to IBM & HP the media changer must be configured with schgr driver and not atdd. We had the same problem and we solved removing the atdd driver and reinstalling but at the prompt for autoconfiguation replied with no (atdd_autoch). Try the following link

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S7000699
Spyros Fidas_1
Occasional Advisor

Re: Connecting to 3583 LTO with A6795A card

Re: Connecting to 3583 LTO with A6795A card

Unfortunately ioscan/insf won't create the device files for tapes drives handled by atdd. The default atdd installation should have done it, but you can run the atdd_mksf script if/when updates are necessary:

# /opt/OMImag/bin/atdd_mksf | sh

Good luck.
Tom