Re: Installing a new DAT tape on Openserver 5.0.6 (Please?)

From: Bob Bailin (72027.3605_at_compuserve.com)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:26:28 -0500

"David Sims" <dpsims@virtualdave.com> wrote in message
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> Can anyone help me with this please??
>
> TIA,
>
> Dave
> ***********************************************************************
> dpsims@virtualdave.com (David Sims) wrote in message
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> > Patrice <pbrt@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> > > David Sims wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have a good deal of experience with Linux but not SCO
Openserver... I
> > > > have been tasked with installing an HP DAT tape drive on a machine
running
> > > > Openserver 5.0.6. The DAT is a hot-swap unit and simply plugs in at
which
> > > > point there is a kernel message that says something to the effect
of:
> > > >
> > > > SCIS tape found CISS on port 2 device 4
> > > >
> > > > and if I look in /etc/conf/cf.d/mscsi I can see that there is an
entry for
> > > >
> > > > ciss <some tape device>

Please post the actual contents of mscsi. Include all non-comment lines.

Using mkdev tape, you'll probably have to delete the existing tape drive
and create a new tape drive entry. The only question is which bus number
to use.

What other devices are connected to this scsi adapter? Just the disk drive
alluded to below, or is it a RAID array? Is it on the same bus (cable) as
the
tape drive? Are there any other devices? Reboot the machine, go into the
scsi adapter's BIOS setup and tell us what is shows there (device, bus no.,
scsi id no., lun no. [if non-zero]) for all devices.

Once things are properly configured, a simple tape status command is
enough to see if things are working properly.

> > > >
> > > >
> > > > At this point I think that I need to do mkdev tape and answer some
> > > > questions (but I am unsure as to the proper answers because the SCSI
kernel
> > > > message talks about port 2 (bus 1? or 2?) and device 4 (scsi ID
4?).... I
> > > > have done various combinations of answers to no avail.... if I do
'mt -f
> > > > /dev/rct0 status' I get File not Found....
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone provide a step-by-step instruction for installing this
DAT
> > > > tape device and then provide the command (or command set) to prove
that it
> > > > is working??
> > > >
> > > > TIA,
> > > >
> > > > Dave Sims
> > >
> > > First , is it possible to send me your # hwconfig -ch information ?
> >
> > Hi Patrice,
> >
> > Thank you very much for responding to my query on comp.unix.sco.misc
> > on the Usenet... Here is the info you asked for plus a little more:
> >
> > Any clues would be *very* welcome :)
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Dave Sims
> >
*************************************************************************
> >
> > device address vec dma comment
> > ====== ======= === === =======
> > kernel - - - rel=3.2v5.0.6 kid=2000-07-27
> > cpu - - - unit=1 family=6 type=gt PentIII
> > cpuid - - - unit=1 vend=GenuineIntel tfms=0:6:11:1(4)
> > fpu - 13 - unit=1 type=80387-compatible
> > pci 0xcf8-0xcff - - am=1 sc=1 buses=11
> > PnP - - - nodes=0
> > clock - - - type=TSC/1125767371Hz
> > serial 0x3f8-0x3ff 4 - unit=0 type=Standard nports=1 fifo=yes
> > console - - - unit=vga type=0 num=12 scoansi=1 scroll=50
> > floppy 0x3f2-0x3f7 6 2 unit=0 type=135ds18
> > kbmouse 0x60-0x64 12 - type=Keyboard|PS/2 mouse id=0x00
> > adapter 0x1f0-0x1f7 14 - type=IDE ctlr=primary dvr=wd
> > csmu - - - Compaq SCSI-2 Management driver (rev 5.48a
> > cled - - - Compaq ProLiant Storage System (rev 5.48a)
> > pcibios - - - PCI BIOS (2.16), Hardware Mechanism 1
> > cpqw 0x1800-0x18ff 10 - Compaq Wellness driver (ver 5.48a)
> > crom - - - Compaq rom driver (rev 5.48a)
> > n100c0 0x2400-0x241f 5 - type=Compaq 10/100 00:08:02:3e:0c:89
> > adapte 0x2000-0x2100 3 - type=ciss ha=0 PCI slot=0 (rev 5.48a)
> > eeE0 0x2440-0x245f 7 - type=EE PRO/100+ 00:08:02:3e:0c:88
> > cd-rom - - - type=IDE ctlr=pri cfg=mst dvr=Srom->wd
> > tape - - - type=S ha=0 id=4 lun=0 bus=0 ht=ciss
> > disk - - - type=S ha=0 id=0 lun=0 bus=0 ht=ciss
> > Sdsk - - - cyls=4357 hds=255 secs=32 fts=stdb
> >

[snipped]

Bob

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