Re: configuring the Solaris 'sgen' driver to bind to L9 changer device

2006-09-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 02:13:55PM +1000, Craig Dewick wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > >It won't be the script that sets up specific devices. The OS picks > >the device names based on its scans and distorted logic. In case > >you are not familiar with that naming scheme c

Re: configuring the Solaris 'sgen' driver to bind to L9 changer device

2006-09-18 Thread Craig Dewick
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: It won't be the script that sets up specific devices. The OS picks the device names based on its scans and distorted logic. In case you are not familiar with that naming scheme c1t2d3 would be "c"ontroller number 1(you may have multiple scsi, o

Re: configuring the Solaris 'sgen' driver to bind to L9 changer device

2006-09-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 02:27:41AM +1000, Craig Dewick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > >I know I posted, and exchanged information on this with others on > >the list some time ago. > > > >Give me a chance to look in my outbox, or you can check the list > >archives, and we'll

Re: configuring the Solaris 'sgen' driver to bind to L9 changer device

2006-09-18 Thread Craig Dewick
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Brian Cuttler wrote: I know I posted, and exchanged information on this with others on the list some time ago. Give me a chance to look in my outbox, or you can check the list archives, and we'll see what we can see. What version of Solaris ? Solaris 9. I access the ro

Re: configuring the Solaris 'sgen' driver to bind to L9 changer device

2006-09-18 Thread Brian Cuttler
Craig, I know I posted, and exchanged information on this with others on the list some time ago. Give me a chance to look in my outbox, or you can check the list archives, and we'll see what we can see. What version of Solaris ? I access the robot as /dev/scsi/changer/c6-something, I recall th

Re: configuring the Solaris 'sgen' driver to bind to L9 changer device

2006-09-17 Thread Craig Dewick
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote: My systems have 1.12.17 and 1.12.18. These versons are about 4 years old. Ah I checked the proper download site and have got 1.12.18 now so will try that out. Versons can have a difference if the status strings have different format. chg-zd-mtx uses

Re: configuring the Solaris 'sgen' driver to bind to L9 changer device

2006-09-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:31:04PM +1000, Craig Dewick wrote: > After hunting around for a while in Google I found a reference to an old > post to this list (!) dating back to about 2003: > > http://marc.10east.com/?l=amanda-users&m=106975454004344&w=2 > > which pointed me to a script in the con

Re: configuring the Solaris 'sgen' driver to bind to L9 changer device

2006-09-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:48:28AM +1000, Craig Dewick wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got Amanda happily seeing the tape drive itself in the L9, but not > the robotics controller. The L9 is attached to an Sbus 'isp' SCSI card in > the Sparc 20 and it's configured into amanda.conf using the > '/dev/rm

Re: configuring the Solaris 'sgen' driver to bind to L9 changer device

2006-09-17 Thread Craig Dewick
After hunting around for a while in Google I found a reference to an old post to this list (!) dating back to about 2003: http://marc.10east.com/?l=amanda-users&m=106975454004344&w=2 which pointed me to a script in the contrib sub-directory of the mtx source tree. That actually worked and corr

configuring the Solaris 'sgen' driver to bind to L9 changer device

2006-09-17 Thread Craig Dewick
Hi, I've got Amanda happily seeing the tape drive itself in the L9, but not the robotics controller. The L9 is attached to an Sbus 'isp' SCSI card in the Sparc 20 and it's configured into amanda.conf using the '/dev/rmt/0lbn' device node (the kernels picks it up as 'st15' during a reconfigur