Re: Ultra 10- Mammoth M2 LVD crash


"DoN. Nichols" <dnichols@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 2007-12-05, Rob Fraser <FraserRacing> wrote:
Guys- Strange one here. Maybe not. Installed a Mammoth M2 tape pulled a
Mammoth 8900 and did hardware reset.

Core dump.. Nothing usable

Reboot. up and running... No tape seen

Oops.

Any ideas? I think someone once mentioned the M2LVD did not like Sun
gear? I stuffed it in a Winblow box and it ran fine.

First off -- do you have it hooked to a real LVD SCSI card?
Unlike most other LVD devices, it does not work properly on a SE SCSI,
and the Exabyte documentation PDFs document this. The same applies if
you have a mix of LVD and SE devices on a LVD card -- because that will
default to SE operation. I discovered all of this the hard way. :-) The
library would happily talk to the computer via SE SCSI, but not the tape
drives. They would work just enough to get status information from the
tape drives, and (sometimes) to read an already written tape. But once
I tried to write a tape -- error time. :-)

Second -- you probably need to add some entries to
/kernel/drv/st.conf

In particular, you need these in there to properly use the M2
drive:


======================================================================
tape-config-list=
"EXABYTE Mammoth2", "Mammoth2 8mm Helical Scan", "M2";

M2 = 1,0x35,0,0x19e39,1,0x28,0;
======================================================================

The above is from my Sun Fire 280R with an EXB-430 library with
two M2 drives and (currently) ten slots -- until I find more magazines
to fit the EXB-430 or EXB-215.

Note also that if you put a standard Mammoth (e.g. 8900) tape
into the drive, it *will* read it (but apparently not write it), and
will then walk around shouting "unclean" until you feed it a cleaning
tape. :-)

Scsi set to ID4 No conflicts, only device on the card.

O.K. But is it a LVD card?

Also -- are the proper drivers there for the card? Sun only
seems to supply (according to my increasingly old FEH) SE and HVD PCI
cards. All others are third-party cards, and my need a third-party
driver installed.

I did stuff a third-party LVD PCI card into an Ultra-10 and have
no problems accessing the drive -- but the OS in that was OpenBSD, not
Solaris 10 at the time.

Good Luck,
DoN.

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I just got pissed off enough for now to open the chassis back up and mash
the 8900 back into it. Shame to have a brand new M2 staring at me on my
desk. Thanks for all the pointers Don. I did pull this from the pack to
make it an internal drive. I have 3-4 cases to look at I usually pop out the
SCSI id terminals and install them internally. If what I have is of good
I'll mail them to you but send a photo set first to make sure they are what
you can use. Again, my sincere thanks and let me know when you get the
pictures. It should be Mon or sooner.

Have a good weekend,

Rob in Joliet.


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