Adding tape drive.

From: Tim Hespe (t.hespe@unsw.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 01:14:13 EST


On a V880 I a have successfully hot-plugged an X6541A dual channel adapter.
Both scsi channels show up in cfgadm. There is a tape drive (DLT8000 as ID 4)
on one of the channels. Nothing I have done seems to make the drive visible to
the system. I have tried configuring each channel but it does nothing. I
have tried
using the -x hardware_function options of cfgadm such as insert_device and
reset_all on both channels but the drive remains stubbornly invisible. I
have tried
different cables and I have even tried a different drive but I still can't
see anything.
I have come to the conclusion that I am doing something stupid or unsupported
but I don't know what. Below is a listing from cfgadm. Any suggestions as
to what
I do next would be appreciated. c2 and c3 are the scsi channels of the X6541A
adapter which is in PCI slot pcisch0:hpc1_slot0.

Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
SBa cpu/mem connected configured ok
SBa::cpu0 cpu connected configured ok
SBa::cpu1 cpu connected configured ok
SBa::memory memory connected configured ok
SBb cpu/mem connected configured ok
SBb::cpu0 cpu connected configured ok
SBb::cpu1 cpu connected configured ok
SBb::memory memory connected configured ok
SBc none empty unconfigured ok
SBd none empty unconfigured ok
c0 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
c0::dsk/c0t6d0 CD-ROM connected configured unknown
c2 scsi-bus connected unconfigured unknown
c3 scsi-bus connected unconfigured unknown
pcisch0:hpc1_slot0 mult/hp connected configured ok
pcisch0:hpc1_slot1 unknown empty unconfigured unknown
pcisch0:hpc1_slot2 unknown empty unconfigured unknown
pcisch0:hpc1_slot3 unknown empty unconfigured unknown
pcisch2:hpc2_slot4 unknown empty unconfigured unknown
pcisch2:hpc2_slot5 unknown empty unconfigured unknown
pcisch2:hpc2_slot6 unknown empty unconfigured unknown
pcisch3:hpc0_slot7 unknown empty unconfigured unknown
pcisch3:hpc0_slot8 unknown empty unconfigured unknown

Tim Hespe
System Admin.
University of New South Wales Library
t.hespe@unsw.edu.au
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