Cyril Plisko wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:48 PM, James Carlson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > [snipped content] > >> % cfgadm -x insert_device c12::rmt/0 >> cfgadm: Attachment point not found >> % >> >> Shouldn't there be a "c12::rmt/0" here? How can I make the system see >> the tape device that's connected? >> >> Is there any other information I should gather? I've read through the >> cfgadm and mtio documentation, and it certainly seems like this should >> "just work." > > > James, > > Can you check that the tape is visible/accessible via the card bios ? > I think you need to hit Ctrl-A during the BIOS initialization to get into > card' own firmware. There must be SCSI bus scan option somewhere there.
Indeed, there is. It wasn't present in the scan, and none of the lights were lighting up during the boot sequence. Given that clue, I opened the case and re-seated all of the cables, and rebooted. That did the trick -- the BIOS scan function found the tape drive, cfgadm -a now shows "c12::rmt/0" in the list, and the nightly backups are working again. I suspect that either power or data were always loose, and that's what caused this to happen in the past. Glad to see it's not a bug! -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
