From: Tim Hespe (t.hespe@unsw.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 18:07:16 EST
The X6541A is in fact a HVD card.
At 09:25 8/01/2003 +1100, you wrote:
>Thanks to:
>Sean Berry
>Darren Dunham
>jsconiers
>Peter Stokes
>Thomas Autry
>
>I have come to the conclusion based on the experience of Thomas and advice
>from
>Peter and having tried every conceivable permutation of devfsadm,
>cfgadm,tapes etc.,
>that the X6541A and the DLT8000 will not work together. The X6541A is LVD
>and the DLT8000 is single ended. The moral is don't rely on Sun to sell you
>the right stuff.
>At 17:14 7/01/2003 +1100, you wrote:
>>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
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