Attaching OSAR 123 GTL to HPUX 10.20 system (K-class)

[kdc]

I would like to know if anyone has a OSAR 123GTL connected to a HPUX 10.20 running IDMIS 3.4.2. I am wondering what the ioscan reports? My drives are claimed but the library arm which is connected via scsi reports unclaimed and unknown. I don't know if I am missing a device file or what?

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Joe,

I'm not familiar w/OSAR & IDMIS, but I do know when we add or move our Gators, (using NetBackup SW), we have to run mknod before the robot can be utilized.
The tape drives themselves are spotted & added at boot time by the ioinit routines. BUT the robot is not.

Example command:

cd /dev/sctl
mknod c73t10d0 c 203 0x3d0000

So check your install docs, you may have a similar step in there.

HTH,
Jeff

[Frank Slootweg]

Adding to Jeff's response:

If the (tape?) drives are using the stape driver, then the robot should (probably) use the sctl driver. See the scsi_ctl(7) manual page for details, especially for the *details* of the major and minor number in the mknod command. Note that the "ii" field is the Instance number (ioscan(1M) "I" column) of the *interface* (ioscan(1M) "INTERFACE" column), *not* of the robot.

Let us know how you go. If it does not work, we have further tips. In any case post the "ioscan -fn -H ..." output, where "..." is the hardware path of the *interface*.