I've had nothing but perfect luck with the sgen driver under Solaris.
FYI, are you sure you're not mixing differential and non-differential units
on the same bus? Last time I saw that error, it turns out that the hard
disk on the bus wasn't differential.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:03:48PM +1100, Craig Dewick wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Jason Hollinden wrote:
>
> > One that I know of it to be sure and grap the newest CVS version of
> > chg-zd-mtx.sh.in, as the one that ships with 2.4.2p1 will not handle
> > more than 9 tapes.
>
> Done this.
>
> On a related note, I've built and installed mtx-1.2.10 and it produces the
> following with the SunOS 5.8 'sgen' driver configured and bound
> successfully to the changer device set to ID 5:
>
>
> 7 root@lios #----> mtx -f /dev/scsi/changer/c0t5d0 inquiry
> mtx: I/O error
> mtx: Request Sense: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> mtx: INQUIRY Command Failed
>
>
> There is a hard drive on the same SCSI bus (it's the Amanda spool disk,
> but isn't used for anything else), and I'm suspecting it might be causing
> the problems because I'm seeing a lot of 'target did not disconnect after
> sending DISCONNECT' messages in the console window.
>
> Has anyone else successfully used amanda with mtx and the SunOS 'sgen'
> driver? I'm going to try removing the drive off the same bus as the
> changer to try and isolate the problems. Perhaps I should use the 'sst'
> driver instead if that's known to work better?
>
> The hard drive could be defective too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig.
>
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