SCSI Tape Drive - LUN Support

Darryl W. DeLao Jr. ddelao at oucpm.org
Wed Aug 25 15:16:22 UTC 2004


The server is a PowerEdge 2650, and I simply installed the Adaptec SCSI card
and the system recognized it all.  What do you suggest I do to resolve my
issue?

Thanks,
Darryl



-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Goodwin [mailto:kgoodwin at datamarktech.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:32 AM
To: ddelao at oucpm.org; 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux'
Subject: RE: SCSI Tape Drive - LUN Support

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.


Kenneth Goodwin

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
>  [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at 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 at redhat.com
>  [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
Of
>  Kenneth Goodwin
>  Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:56 AM
>  To: ddelao at oucpm.org; 'Getting started with Red Hat
Linux'
>  Subject: RE: SCSI Tape Drive - LUN Support
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
>  [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf
Of
>  Darryl W. DeLao Jr.
>  Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:44 AM
>  To: rhn-users at redhat.com; redhat-list at redhat.com;
>  redhat-install-list at 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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