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9 years ago

Tape drives issue

Hi Dears, Recently I connected a new media server to tape library, Below is the result of cfgadm command on Solaris media server.

OS just seen 1 drive as tape drive and other drives are unavailable but connected and configured!

Whats your Idea to troubleshooting?

PS: I checked zoning and everythings are normal and driver is installed on media server and kernel modules(sg,st,qla2xxx) are loaded

Thanks

 

c9                             fc-fabric    connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f002           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f008           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f00e           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f014           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f01a           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f020           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f026           tape         connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f02c           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f032           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f038           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f03e           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f044           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f04a           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f050           unavailable  connected    configured   unusable
c9::500308c00286f056           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f05c           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f062           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f068           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f06e           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c9::500308c00286f074           unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10                            fc-fabric    connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f07a          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f080          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f086          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f08c          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f092          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f098          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f09e          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f0a4          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f0aa          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f0b0          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f0b6          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f0bc          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f0c2          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f0c8          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f0ce          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f0d4          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f0da          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f0e0          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f0e6          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown
c10::500308c00286f0ec          unavailable  connected    configured   unknown

  • What happens when you try to reconfigure these 2 controllers?

    cfgadm -c configure c9
    cfgadm -c configure c10

    You may be better off asking assistance on a Solaris forum....

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  • Try

    cfgadm -al -o show_FCP_dev

    cfgadm -al doesn't always show everything that is actually there.  Though that said, you didn't confirm exactly which command you ran, so you may have tried this.

  • What happens when you try to reconfigure these 2 controllers?

    cfgadm -c configure c9
    cfgadm -c configure c10

    You may be better off asking assistance on a Solaris forum....