[OpenIndiana-discuss] Using Openindiana with IBM TS3100 tape library

[Paolo Marcheschi]

But  is the system able to see the device ?

see that with the following command from root :

prtconf -v

Paolo

On 03/ 6/12 06:45 AM, Lauri-Alo Adamson wrote:
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>
> paolo marcheschi<paolo.marcheschi<at>  ftgm.it>  writes:
>
>> Hi I'm interested in your experiment, but unfortunately I do not have a
>> LTO5 connected to an openindiana host.
>>
>> However it seems that the library is not recognized by the driver, have
>> you tried to probe the correct devices ?
>> search for a file that is on /usr/kernel/drv/IBMtape.conf.
>> from the solaris read me
>> ftp://ftp.cac.psu.edu/mirror/devdrvr/Solaris/IBMtape.README :
>> "
>>
>> 6) Add the entries up to target 255 in IBMtape.conf
>>      The new IBMtape.conf will help IBMtape driver to probe those devices which
> are mapped
>>      over target 15 by HBA driver.
>>
>>      For new install, the new IBMtape.conf with a SCSI target range from 0 to
> 255 is copied to
>>      the directory of /usr/kernel/drv/.
>>
>>      For the update, IBMtape driver doesn't overwrite the old IBMtape.conf in
> the directory of
>>      /usr/kernel/drv during its installation. To use the new IBMtape.conf, the
> user needs to
>>      backup the original file of IBMtape.conf in /usr/kernel/drv, copy
> IBMtape.conf from the
>>      directory of /opt/IBMtape to /usr/kernel/drv, and modify the new
> IBMtape.conf according
>>      the original file of IBMtape.conf. It will take effect after the system
> reboot or IBMtape
>>      driver is reloaded in the kernel.
>>
>> "
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Paolo
>>
> Hello !
>
> Many thanks for your answer ! I looked my /usr/kernel/drv/IBMtape.conf file an
> discovered that my IBMtape.conf already has these lines as you described in your
> letter. Here is is last line of my IBMtape.conf file.
>
> name="IBMtape" class="scsi" target=255 lun=1 block_size=0 buffering=1
> immediate=0 trailer=0 sili=0;
>
> Lauri-Alo Adamson
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