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Re: SCSI Tape Drive - LUN Support

Kenneth Goodwin wrote: 
Unfortunately his original post was in HTML formats and my
conversion to plain text was not clean, so my original
response
may be overlooked....

If you look at his "cat /proc/scsi/scsi output",
you will see that his SCSI ids dont make sense, the cdrom
and the controller
are at scsi id 0 and the tape drive is at 6. Only the
controller should be 0,
that means he has an id conflict between the devices and
needs to adjust the scsi id jumpers or switches
(unless he is plugging into a scsi backplane which would
normally set the scsi ID for him, which is
not likely with a tape/cdrom setup)

Of course, why he is using a RAID controller to drive a
cdrom and a tape drive
instead of a plain scsi controller is another question....
unless it is multichannel card and he has this stuff on the
non-raid channel.


Uh, the CD-ROM and the DLT are on separate controllers, so the SCSI IDs
don't conflict.  Look at the output:

>> Attached devices:
>> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>>   Vendor: DELL     Model: PERCRAID RAID5   Rev: V1.0
>>   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI
>> revision: 02
>> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>>   Vendor: TEAC     Model: CD-224E          Rev: K.9A
>>   Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI
>> revision: 02

Note the "scsi0" and "scsi1" bits.

SCSI controllers, BTW, usually use SCSI ID 7, not 0.  If you go back to
the old Sun Microsystems days of eight or 10 years ago (when they were
the largest user of SCSI devices), they normally laid things out thusly:

	SCSI ID		Device
	   0		Open
	   1		Open
	   2		Open
	   3		Hard Drive
	   4		Tape (normally a DC5150 or DC5250)
	   5		Open
	   6		CD-ROM
	   7		Controller

Their firmware swapped SCSI IDs 0 and 3, so the hard drive, while
physically jumpered to ID3, showed up as ID0 to the software and any
device physically jumpered to ID0 showed up as ID3 to software.  Just
why they did this is not clear, other than the fact that the drive would
ship with two jumpers, so you could make any other ID you wanted except
7 (which would conflict with the controller).

On a Linux system, and assuming both drivers were loaded (an "lsmod"
would be nice here), a SCSI CD would show up as /dev/scd0, the tape
would appear as /dev/st0.  The contents of /var/log/dmesg would be of
help also, to see if the devices were seen at boot.

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com]On Behalf

Of Darryl W.

DeLao Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:23 AM
To: 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux'
Subject: RE: SCSI Tape Drive - LUN Support


I have heard that it may have something to do with LUN
support in the Kernel
and that it is not enabled, and that it requires a
re-compile of some sort.



-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf

Of

Kenneth Goodwin
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:56 AM
To: ddelao oucpm org; 'Getting started with Red Hat

Linux'

Subject: RE: SCSI Tape Drive - LUN Support

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com]On Behalf

Of

Darryl W. DeLao Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:44 AM
To: rhn-users redhat com; redhat-list redhat com;
redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: SCSI Tape Drive - LUN Support


Hello everyone,

I recently installed an Adaptec SCSI Card in my PowerEdge
2650.  Attached to the Adaptec card is 1 DLT VS160 Drive.
When I fire up the server, the SCSI BIOS loads and

detects

everything perfectly. When RHEL ES 3.0 loads, it does

not

see the DLT Drive. When I do a lsmod from the command

line,

I see my RAID and the CD-ROM drive listed.  Upon checking
the /etc/modules.conf file I see the following listed:

alias eth0 e1000
alias eth1 tg3
alias eth2 tg3
alias scsi_hostadapter aacraid
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias scsi_hostadapter1 aic7xxx


Upon doing a modprobe aic7xxx from the command line, I

see

this after doing cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: DELL     Model: PERCRAID RAID5   Rev: V1.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI
revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: TEAC     Model: CD-224E          Rev: K.9A
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI
revision: 02

==== Please dont post in HTML formats =============

The probable cause of your problem is that the SCSI
controller
and the CDROM drive
both appear to be set to the same SCSI ID of 0, Jump and
adjust the scsi id of the cdrom so
it is not  0 or 6. It may also be that the CDROM and the
tape drive are both set to 6 (cause of your original
problem) and that the cdrom is taking itself off-line
when it detects the ID conflict.

========================================================


Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
  Vendor: QUANTUM  Model: DLT VS160        Rev: 1E00
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI
revision: 02

The DLT is now listed and I am now able to fire up the
software and use the DLT.  However, now I can not use the
CD-ROM drive.  I am unable to mount it or anything.  When

I

reboot, everything resets and I have to modprobe aic7xxx
again in order to use the DLT.  Does anyone know what I

need

to do or enable or what not so that I can use both the
CD-ROM and the DLTVS160 after a reboot without having to
issue a command to use the DLTVS160?

Thanks,
Darryl


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