AIT3 Drive install problem

From: Bryan Pennington (bpennington_at_trevorn.com)
Date: 08/06/04

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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 21:41:20 -0500

    All,
     
    I'm attempting to install a SDX700C Sony AIT3 drive on my SUN box 250
    running Solaris 8. I trying to use a Qlogic QLA10162 Ultra3 LVD/SE SCSI PCI
    controller from SUN. I've tried different configs but right now I have the
    AIT drive as target 0. Nothing else on that SCSI chain.
     
    When I do a probe-scsi-all I see the controller and the drive attached to
    the card. I see the drive at target 0, listed on LUN 0, 8, 10, 18. I thought
    four seperate times looked strange, but...
     
    If I do a test /pci@1f,4000/pci@4/scsi@4 it responds OK. Which leads me to
    believe it sees the drive.
     
    When I did the boot -r I see no evidence that the OS sees the controller or
    the tapedrive. Nothing in the logs refer to anything at scsi@4.
     
    My st.conf looks like this:
     
     
    tape-config-list=
    "SONY SDX-700C", "Sony AIT3 8mm", "SONY_AIT";
    SONY_AIT = 1, 0x36, 0, 0x1d639, 4, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,0;
     
     
    name="st" class="scsi"
            target=0 lun=0;
     
    name="st" class="scsi"
            target=0 lun=1;
     
    name="st" class="scsi"
            target=0 lun=8;
     
    name="st" class="scsi"
            target=0 lun=10;
     
    name="st" class="scsi"
            target=0 lun=18;

     
    When I do a drvconfig && tapes I get nothing in /dev/rmt/. No tape devices.
     
    My message file has no errors or any indication it's even trying to install
    a drive.
     
     
    Please help if you can. What am I doing wrong?? Do I need a seperate driver
    for the scsi controller? The qlogic website had no info about my card. I've
    never had this much trouble with a scsi card and tape drive.
     
    Bryan
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