SUMMARY: Ultra 60/SpectraLogic 5100 help sought

From: Todd Herr (herrt@hankhill.iisd.sra.com)
Date: Thu Feb 04 1999 - 13:00:41 CST

The answer, as provided by SpectraLogic, was to configure the
Tape Library in IRIX emulation mode, vice Solaris, on the front
panel of the library.

Thanks to the following responders:

  Demian Hanks
  Richard Felkins
  Bismark Espinoza

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Todd Herr wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> I'm attempting to hookup a SpectraLogic 5100 Tape Library to an
> Ultra 60 (Solaris 2.6, all necessary patches) and I'm having a
> bit of a problem. Basically, a reconfiguration reboot produces
> no entries in /dev/rmt.
>
> I'm using the onboard UFW SCSI port, and probe-scsi-all shows me
> my tape library and the individual drives therein as attached to
>
> /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1
>
> as opposed to the hard disk and CDROM (IDE devices, right?)
> attached to
>
> /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3
>
> Just for sanity's sake, the library and the three tape drives
> are at SCSI ID's 1, 2, 3, and 4, so there are no conflicts with
> the hard disk (0) or the CDROM (6).
>
> I've made SpectraLogic's suggested changes to /kernel/drv/st.conf
> and /usr/include/sys/scsi/targets/stedef.h.
>
> dmesg shows me this:
>
> glm0: Rev. 5 Symbios 53c875 found.
> PCI-device: scsi@3, glm #0
> glm0 is /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3
> glm1: Rev. 5 Symbios 53c875 found.
> PCI-device: scsi@3,1, glm #1
> glm1 is /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1
>
> and the /devices filesystem has this:
>
> # pwd
> /devices/pci@1f,4000
> # ls -l
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Jan 27 13:42 ebus@1/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 Jan 27 13:39 scsi@3/
> crw------- 1 root sys 50, 1 Jan 27 13:39 scsi@3,1:devctl
> crw------- 1 root sys 50, 0 Jan 27 13:39 scsi@3:devctl
>
> scsi@3 contains the block and character entries for sd@0,0
> (hard drive) and sd@6,0 (cdrom), but nothing for st, and,
> obviously, there's no scsi@3,1 directory. :-(
>
> What am I missing? I'm new to the PCI-bus architecture, so
> I apologize if my question is answered someplace obvious that
> I've overlooked.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> 

-- 
Todd Herr                                       todd_herr@sra.com
Unix Systems Administrator, SRA International.  http://www.sra.com

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