Alexandre, IBM will not be certifying these cards to work with TAPE as these
cards do not support FC-TAPE. You need to get a card that supports FC-TAPE.
JNI has a new level of card coming out this month with FC-TAPE support, but
they have yet to receive certification from IBM. You should be able to
access the drives without FC-TAPE support, but error recovery might not work
correctly.
Now you could be seeing the drives twice, because you have two paths and you
will see the same device over each path. I'm not a SAN expert, but I believe
that this can be resolved by using ZONING.
Adolph
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexandre Bicas Caldeira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 5:48 PM
Subject: SAN - Solaris
> Hi guys,
>
>
> Thanks for all that helped me... the problem was: JNI FC adapter was set
to
> FC-AL mode when it should be set to FC-SW mode... once I changed it in
> fcaw.conf, and rebooted the E3500, Solaris could "see" the devices !
>
> But I have another problem for you guys:
>
> Solaris (2.7) recognizes the 5 tape drives but I can't open them (using
> tapeutil). I have already commented out the file st.conf, but everytime I
> run "drvconfig" the OS recognizes the same device twice, once via IBMtape
> and via Solaris itself; in /dev/rmt I have 10 devices ! I belive that is
> the cause of my problem, but I'm not so certain ... IBM has just certified
> this FC64-1063 adapter to work with Switch 2109 and Shark... They haven't
> mentioned anything about tape drives and libraries...
>
> Anyway, has anyone seen this kind of Solaris behaviour ? Should I reboot
> again the Server after I changed the "st.conf" file ?!
> Unfortunatelly I am a rookie in Solaris and all this seems very strange to
> me :)
> I've seen a lot of problems like that in ADSM.ORG about SCSI drives... no
> solution at all
>
> Again, thanks you all !
>
>
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