Overland LoaderXpress working w/native AIX?
From: Brian Beuchaw (nospam_at_nobody.org)
Date: 06/04/04
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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 16:52:58 +0000 (UTC)
Hello all,
I just basically want to confirm what I suspect - that the Overland
LoaderXpress LTO autoloader won't work with native AIX commands. We've
got an older one with a Seagate drive and from Overland's compatibility
guide, it will only work with some third-party backup software. And from
looking at Seagate's Viper 2000 compatibility chart (at www.certance.com),
it's "Not Compatible" with *any* native Unix (not just AIX).
I tried to define it as an "ost", using 3,1 (the SCSI address and LUN
of the robotics) as the address and got this message:
Method error (/etc/methods/cfgsctape):
0514-051 Device to be configured does not match the physical
device at the specified connection location.
The robotics are at LUN 1 (drive is at LUN 0) and that apparently can't be
changed. If I define it as an "ost" at 3,0 then that works, and AIX
(savevg specifically) can talk to the drive, but without the robotics,
that won't work too well.
So then I got Atape and installed it and then tried to define it as an
"LTO" drive, among others (the IBM 358x libraries/autoloaders) and got
this:
Method error (/etc/methods/cfgAtape):
0514-051 Device to be configured does not match the physical
device at the specified connection location.
If I defined it as an "ost" at 3,0, then tapeutil does work in a limited
capacity, but if nothing can talk to the robotics, just the drive, then
the usefulness is limited.
So I've pretty much come to the conclusion that the Atape drivers will
only work with IBM drives and that we've got 2 options:
1. Set the library to sequential mode and hope the native AIX
commands can handle tape switching (haven't tried backing up enough data
to get a tape switch yet).
2. Buy a third-party backup software package that supports this
autoloader.
If anybody knows anything different from the above (or just confirms what
I suspect), please let me know.
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the instructions if it bounces back, but I'd prefer replies in the
newsgroup.
Thanks much,
Brian Beuchaw
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