Re: Linux Enterprise 2.1 HP Storageworks DAT 40 on a HP DL380

[Carl Riches <riches ms washington edu>]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 swalker caspercollege edu wrote:

> Linux Enterprise 2.1
> Compaq SCSI bus with 5300 raid controller.
> tar cvf /dev/st0 /
> /dev/st0: Cannot open: No such device.
> Am unable to track down the problem with getting
> data on to the tape.
>
> mount: can't find /dev/st0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
>
> How does one verify the proper drivers have been loaded?
> I thought every device on the scsi bus would have been loaded or
> mounted during the install and startup.
>

Are you connecting the tape drive to the VHDCI connector on the back of
the DL380 or is this the hot-swap internal tape drive?  We went the
external drive route on our DL380s, connecting to the external VHDCI, and
it failed.  HP support told me that connector is only for disk drives.
You must purchase this part to connect an external tape drive to a DL380:

  268351-B21 2-ch U320 SCSI HBA ALL

We then had to modify /etc/modules.conf with these lines:

  alias scsi_hostadapter mptbase
  alias scsi_hostadapter1 mptscsih
  alias scsi_hostadapter2 cciss

You might need to add this line as well:

  add above scsi_mod mptbase mptscsih



Carl


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