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Old November 20th 03, 02:22 PM
Rich
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Dear All,

I'm trying to get a dell pv120 autoloader operational on my san. I've
connected it to a fc/scsi router, (a storagetek 3200 which is a badged
crossroads 4100) and from there to my brocade 2800.

The switch sees the router as a successfull F port and correctly
identifyies it in the name server. (as a crossroads)

On the host the qlconfig software that manges the qlogic hbas indiates
that the HBA can see a wwn (the autoloader) and two luns (the tape
drives themselves presumably) hanging of it.

W2K spotted the autochanger and I've installed the dell driver for it.

HOWEVER... nothing shows in windows removable storage. It looks to me
like the autochanger has been found but not the tape drives?

Any ideas please?

Cheers!

Rich
PS I can't connect to the router - any tips on serial/network
connections to a crossroads 4100?!
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Old November 21st 03, 04:21 PM
Rene Köhnen-Wiesemes
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HOWEVER... nothing shows in windows removable storage. It looks to me
like the autochanger has been found but not the tape drives?

Any ideas please?


First you should check if your tape drives are

visible from OS: (HKLM/Hardware/Devicemap/SCSI/SCSI Port n)

You should find there the Library Controller

and the Tape drives.

Tapes that have a loaded Tape driver have an

entry like DeviceName: REG_SZ: Tape n

If you can't find any Library Controller or

Tape Drives something must be wrong with your

Switch Zoning or Device Mapping in the SCSI/FC

Router.

This Router can be accessed via serial connection (with a special serial
cable which

comes with the router itself) of via IP

(e.g. Hyperterminal connection to that IP address).

Default serial parameters a 9600, 8, N, 1

My recommendation for router settings are

Indexed Mode - not automapped scsi-devices

René


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Old November 25th 03, 03:35 PM
Rich
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René,
Thanks for your reply.
I eventually tracked down a copy of the manual for the router and
found that the reason that I couldn't connect via the serial
connection was that I had to hit the enter key six times....I was
stopping after three or four!
I reset the device to the default config and it worked fine. The
default setting was auto mapping. I subsequently changed to indexed
which also was fine.
Cheers!
R
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Old November 26th 03, 11:21 AM
Rene Köhnen-Wiesemes
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René,
Thanks for your reply.
I eventually tracked down a copy of the manual for the router and
found that the reason that I couldn't connect via the serial
connection was that I had to hit the enter key six times....I was
stopping after three or four!
I reset the device to the default config and it worked fine. The
default setting was auto mapping. I subsequently changed to indexed
which also was fine.
Cheers!
R


Your welcome.

Rene


 




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