[OpenIndiana-discuss] Process to install tape changer?

[Liam Slusser]

I'm not sure if this will help, I have two tape libraries on my machine and
they both show up as /dev/sg/c0xxxx.  But I'm using the Netbackup SG
driver...  Without it my server only saw the tape drives and not the
changer.

Device Name  : "/dev/sg/c0t5l0"
Passthru Name: "/dev/sg/c0t5l0"
Volume Header: ""
Port: -1; Bus: -1; Target: -1; LUN: -1
Inquiry    : "OVERLANDNEO Series      0513"
Vendor ID  : "OVERLAND"
Product ID : "NEO Series      "
Product Rev: "0513"
Serial Number: "1R54600058"
WWN          : ""
WWN Id Type  : 0
Device Identifier: "OVERLANDNEO Series      1R54600058"
Device Type    : SDT_CHANGER
NetBackup Robot Type: 8
Removable      : Yes
Device Supports: SCSI-2
Number of Drives : 2
Number of Slots  : 29
Number of Media Access Ports: 1
Drive 1 Serial Number      : "xxxxxxxxxxx"
Drive 2 Serial Number      : "xxxxxxxxxxx"
Flags : 0x0
Reason: 0x0

thanks,
liam


On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) <udo.grabowski at kit.edu>
wrote:

> On 08/10/2014 01:42, Kurt Richman wrote:
>
>> I have a Dell PowerVault TL2000 tape library which I'd like to connect
>> directly to our OpenIndiana server. The drives on the TL2000 are connected
>> via SAS and show show up under /dev/rmt/, but I'm not sure how to add the
>> Tape changer.
>>
>> # mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status
>> IBM     ULT3580-HH4      tape drive:
>>     sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense   residual= 0   retries= 0
>>     file no= 0   block no= 0
>>
>> # mt -f /dev/rmt/0 config
>> "IBM     ULT3580-HH4", "IBM     ULT3580-HH4     ", "CFGIBMULT3580HH4";
>> CFGIBMULT3580HH4 = 2,0x3B,0,0x1018619,4,0x44,
>> 0x44,0x46,0x46,3,60,1920,780,19980,1020,1020,19200;
>>
>> Do I need to modify /kernel/drv/sgen.conf and add a changer? I tried to
>> use add_drv as the sgen.conf file suggests, but sgen was already in use
>> (even though everything is commented out in the sgen.conf file).
>>
>> # add_drv -i "'IBM     ULT3580-HH4' 'IBM     ULT3580-HH4     '
>> 'CFGIBMULT3580HH4'" sgen
>> ("sgen") already in use as a driver or alias.
>>
>> Is there something I'm missing? Thank you for your help,
>>
>>
> Have a look at the mtx tape changer package, you can install
> it from /dev. 'man st' for details of the
> devices. You may want to activate the hotplug service.
> Don't forget to 'touch /reconfigure' before reboot to
> wipe out accidential misconfiguration.
>
>
>
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