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SLE 11 SP1 - Fiber attached Tape device not visible

 
user_smanas
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SLE 11 SP1 - Fiber attached Tape device not visible

Problem:

I cant see the device files for the HBA attached tape drive/device, please help

# ls -l /dev/st*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-06-24 09:17 /dev/stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-06-24 09:17 /dev/stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-06-24 09:17 /dev/stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1

Data:
1. SLES 11 SP1 x864

2. Server Hardware
IBM x 3650 M3 server

3. Tape Library
IBM TS 3310 tape library 
Type/Model. 3576-L5B

4. HBA Card
# lspci |grep -i "qlogic*"

1f:00.0 Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA (rev 03)

 

# hwinfo --scsci |grep -i "qlogic*"
48: PCI 1f00.0: 0c04 Fibre Channel
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1077_2432
Unique ID: kVdv.xU4ff9JPAr6
Parent ID: M71A.MUxDxfU1p7E
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/0000:1f:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:1f:00.0
Hardware Class: storage
Model: "QLogic ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA"
Vendor: pci 0x1077 "QLogic Corp."
Device: pci 0x2432 "ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA"
SubVendor: pci 0x1077 "QLogic Corp."
SubDevice: pci 0x0137 
Revision: 0x03
Driver: "qla2xxx"
Driver Modules: "qla2xxx"
I/O Ports: 0x2000-0x2fff (rw)
Memory Range: 0x97a00000-0x97a03fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0x90000000-0x9003ffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 57 (54 events)
Requires: qlogic-firmware
Module Alias: "pci:v00001077d00002432sv00001077sd00000137bc0Csc0 4i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: qla2400 is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe qla2400"

Please help/suggest

2 REPLIES 2
user_smanas
Occasional Contributor

Re: SLE 11 SP1 - Fiber attached Tape device not visible

sorry, I forgot to mention the kernel version, its 2.6.32.x

cyruspy
New Member

Re: SLE 11 SP1 - Fiber attached Tape device not visible

Well, hope that by this time you got it working.  Did you run rescan-scsi-bus.sh after creating required zones in fabric?