RH AS 2.1 and storageworks tape drive C5726A

[Steven E. Protter]

I need to know since everything seems okay and the system seems to see its tape drive, if I can install a generic driver for this device and have it work:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=18551&taskId=135&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=42869〈=en&cc=us&submit=Go%20%BB

That link shows drivers for every version of Linux ever except the one we are using on this box. The rpm based drivers require glibc 2.3 which as you know RH AS 2.1 does not have (2.2)

If there is a way to make this tape drive work, please provide a detailed procedure that works on 2.1 RH AS

Here is the ugly stuff. Note that the tape drive is somewhat visible.
root@asguslxt01 bin# lsdev
Device DMA IRQ I/O Ports
------------------------------------------------
Adaptec 4000-40ff
aic7xxx 28 4000-40fe
ATI 2800-28ff
cascade 4 2
cciss 2000-20ff 3000-30ff
cciss0 16
cciss1 24
Compaq 1800-18ff
dma 0080-008f
dma1 0000-001f
dma2 00c0-00df
eepro100 2400-243f 2440-247f
eth0 18
fpu 00f0-00ff
ide0 14 01f0-01f7 03f6-03f6 2c00-2c07
ide1 2c08-2c0f
Intel 2400-243f 2440-247f
keyboard 1 0060-006f
Mouse 12
PCI 0cf8-0cff 2000-20ff 3000-30ff
pic1 0020-003f
pic2 00a0-00bf
rtc 8 0070-007f
serial 03f8-03ff
ServerWorks 2c00-2c0f
timer 0 0040-005f
usb-ohci 22
vga+ 03c0-03df
root@asguslxt01 bin#
root@asguslxt01 bin# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
sg 35076 0 (autoclean) (unused)
nls_iso8859-1 3520 0 (autoclean)
vfat 13244 0 (autoclean)
fat 40408 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
ide-cd 35296 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 35520 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
st 30548 0 (autoclean) (unused)
nfsd 80704 8 (autoclean)
lockd 61184 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 86032 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
autofs 13796 1 (autoclean)
eepro100 21968 1
usb-ohci 23424 0 (unused)
usbcore 68896 1 [usb-ohci]
ext3 73536 8
jbd 55048 8 [ext3]
cciss 44992 9
aic7xxx 127200 0
sd_mod 13468 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 125084 4 [sg st cciss aic7xxx sd_mod]
root@asguslxt01 bin# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: none
root@asguslxt01 bin# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20HE Host Bridge (rev 23)
00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20HE Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:00.2 Host bridge: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0006 (rev 01)
00:00.3 Host bridge: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0006 (rev 01)
00:01.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 5i/532 (rev 01)
00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Compaq Computer Corporation Advanced System Management Controller
00:0f.0 ISA bridge: ServerWorks OSB4 South Bridge (rev 51)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks OSB4 IDE Controller
00:0f.2 USB Controller: ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5 OHCI USB Controller (rev 04)
01:03.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 5300 Controller (rev 02)
07:03.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec 7892A (rev 02)
07:07.0 PCI Hot-plug controller: Compaq Computer Corporation PCI Hotplug Controller (rev 12)

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi SEP,

I don't recall ever having to load drivers to get a tape drive working on Linux...

How is the drive physically connected ?

Cheers,

Rob

[Steven E. Protter]

root@asguslxt01 bin# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: none

The drive is attached to a scsi port.

The natural assumption is that in this case a driver is needed.

SEP

[Steven E. Protter]

I truly do not know what we were thinking on this one.

The purpose of this system is a DR test.

This system was supposed to replicate the functionality of an HP-UX Netveritas 5.1 Media server.

There is a severe shortage of Linux systems in this data center with the right scsi card to support the tape drive.

There are N class sandbox servers all over the place with the right scsi card.

So we made an executive decision. Use an HP-UX based system that has the right OS AND Hardware.

Closed.

Thought outside the box.

SEP