Re: ultrium tape drive on open server 5.0.7

From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.com)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:25:01 GMT

In article <8ce22d01.0410241402.36ec3ca8@posting.google.com>,
Dan Skinner <JDanSkinner@JDanSkinner.com> wrote:
>"Ron Kirschner" <ron@jedron.com> wrote in message news:<Q27ed.32170$J16.1807290@news20.bellglobal.com>...
>> After talking to HP, I found my problem. I assumed a dual channel
>> controller was hba 0 bus 0 and 1. Apparently it 's hba 0 and 1 bus 0!. The
>> HP rep had me run sconf -i which showed that.

>> What I can't understand is that if the OS already knows that,
>> why it's necessary to do a mkdev tape, rather than just have
>> the OS configure it on it's own!

>That's really good thinking. Maybe you could get a job at SCOG
>defining improvements for Open Server?
>Regards...Dan.

Actually those things were in Unixware 2.x that SCO released - and
also in the red box Novell version. It was pretty much standard
on OSes based on the SvR4 release.

Bill 

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