tape drive

[Jeff Hagstrom]

I have a CY-8000 Cybernetics tape drive that went out for service. I've hooked it up to an HP-9000 k460 running HP-UX 11.00. I cannot get the machine to recognize the tape. If I do an ioscan -fn, the tape shows this entry: tape 2 10/4/12.3.0 tape2 CLAIMED DEVICE EXABYTE EXB-85058SQA . This is what the ioscan looked like before with both tapes: tape 0 10/4/12.2.0 tape2 CLAIMED DEVICE EXABYTE EXB-85058SQA
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/dev/diag/rmt/c3t2d0 /dev/rmt/c3t2d0BEST /dev/rmt/0m /dev/rmt/c3t2d0BESTb /dev/rmt/0mb /dev/rmt/c3t2d0BESTn /dev/rmt/0mn /dev/rmt/c3t2d0BESTnb /dev/rmt/0mnb
How do I get the machine to recognize the tape? I've rebooted the box over the weekend.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

1) Make absolutely certain that the two tape drives NOW have different SCSI ID's (assuming that they are on the bus).

2) Make sure the bus is properly terminated and that at least one device on each bus is supplying termination power.

3) Do an rmsf -C tape

4) ioscan -fn -- make sure the drives are "ON"

5) insf

That should do it.

[Mark Grant]

Not too clear about the problem here but are you saying that it's just the device files that are missing now?

If so try "insf -H 10/4/12.3.0" to re-install the device files.

[Tim Adamson_1]

As you have noted, the tape drive is CLAIMED by the server which means it sees the tape drive. The only thing missing is the device files. Manually add them as follows:

# insf -H 10/4/12.3.0


Hope it works.


Tim

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Obviously the instance got changed from 0 to 2. Recreating special files may help you. Try with the Class type.

insf -e -C tape

It should display a message like "installing special files for the instance 2 at PATH"

-Sri