HP Drivers for RedHat Enterprise 3 - ProliantDL380 tape driver

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We have DL380 for RedHat Enterprise 3 ,and use 5i for interal tape. But we canot find use my tape maybe it is driver problem .How do I solve problems. Thanks

[Steven E. Protter]

You are going to have to give me a model number on the tape drive.

Just because its in a DL380 doesn't mean its an HP product.

SEP

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Hi steven
I use Tape 40i for DL380.And I do not have SCSI card for connect tape device. DL380 have 5i raid card and I used it's internal channel on my tape.
Thanks

[Andrea Rossi]

I don't think it is a supported hardware configuration. You'd better to check it.

[Kevin Webb_4]

HI,

The Linux HP smart array driver does not support tape drives (disks only). If you want a local tape drive you must use a PCI SCSI controller to connect to the tape.
Or you can use nfs

Kevin

[Jared Middleton · Accepted solution]

I have ProLiant DL580G2 and DL380G3 servers with Compaq 20/40 DAT tape drives running Red Hat Linux 7.3 Professional. In both cases the tape drives are attached to the internal Compaq 5i smart array. When setup a couple years back, I just had to make sure the proper driver (cciss) was installed, and - this is important - make the following addition to the boot process:

cat /etc/rc.d/rc.local
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#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local

# ===== Local Modification (Jared Middleton) 12/11/02 =====
# In order for the SCSI tape drive to work with the Compaq SMART
# Array Controller, the Compaq cciss driver must dynamically engage
# the SCSI core via the /proc filesystem after initialization.
# For more information see:
# /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.18/cciss.txt

for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]*; do
echo "engage scsi" > $x
done
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Hope this helps,
Jared