In article <Sriny.2hbv73@no-mx.unixadmintalk.com>,
Sriny <Sriny.2hbv73@no-mx.unixadmintalk.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to attach tape drive to sun V890 running Solaris 9 on it.
> I have installed HBA(qlogic) in slot 1 of 0-8 slots and booted the
> system. I do not see HBAin prtdiag output. The tape drive is not
> attached to HBA. The tape drive I am going to attach is Sony AIT3.
>
> 1.How can I make my system see the HBA?
> 2.I Know this is a qlogic HBA and got it from SUN Micro systems.
> 3.Do I have to install any drivrers to see the system?
> 4.I do have similer one on another system and what should I
> check(config Information) to compare it.
> 5. Do I have to connect to make system see this?
>
> Please Give me steps resolve this issue.
>
> Is there any documentation on the net that gives me step by step
> installation/configuration of tape drive on soalris 9.
>
> Thanks.

First off, did your system "see" the drive at the OBP? probe-fcal-all
or something like that should show the drive. If it doesn't show up,
you have hardware problems--cable, HBA, or tape drive.

Next, I don't know if the FCAL driver configuration pays attention to
all the "slots" in the HBA? I think it reduces the boot time and device
discovery if you have it limit it's scanning. The man page for st.conf
will tell you where these files are located (my gray cells are failing
me now--/kernel/drv/??.conf).

If you change this file or are attaching hardware, you'll have to reboot
and "reconfigure" the /devices directory. You can do that two ways:

touch /reconfigure
reboot

or from the OBP

boot -r

Try this and let us know what happened.

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