André wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In order to configure a new SCSI device tou must fisrt check if it's SCSI ID
> isn't already use by another device.
> SCSI tape Drive is usualy ste to ID 5 by manufacturer.
> Change your SCSI ID on the 4mm tape drive.
> launch the followinfg command : cfgmgr -v
> After you can check your new SCSI drive state with : lsdev -Cc tape
>
> Bye
> rowan<cut-the-crap> @rownetco.com>" < wrote:
>
>>A potential client is running Profit21 on AIX. I resurrected my
>>RS6000 PowerServer 520H (hadn't been powered up in about a year) and
>>connected an external 4mm tape drive to the SCSI chain. The machine
>>already has an 8mm internal tape but the client only has 4mm. I
>>dumped a test file from his system to a 4mm cartridge and tried
>>reading it when the 4mm was attached to a Linux machine here, did't
>>work. I thought perhaps it was a compatability issue with tar so I
>>connected the drive to the RS6000. I tried using SMIT to define
>>another tape drive (I guess it would be RMT1 or RMT0.1?). With Linux
>>you can go to the /proc/scsi directory and see what devices were
>>recognized by the system (example below). Since all attempts with
>>SMIT failed is there an easy way to find out what address the 4mm has
>>with AIX or is there a similar directory where AIX catalogs device
>>information?
>>
>>
>>[root@softtail root]# cd /proc/scsi
>>[root@softtail scsi]# ls
>>aic7xxx scsi sym53c8xx
>>[root@softtail scsi]# cat scsi
>>Attached devices:
>>Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
>> Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 2680
>> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
>>[root@softtail scsi]#
>
>
>

Andre, thanks for the reply. I've tried these commands with the 4mm drive on SCSI IDs 0 on up. Each time I
cold start the box after changing the ID with everything powered off. Cfgmgr -v shows scsi0 and the tape on
the 4mm spins for a while but it never is added to the system. I know the tape drive works, I had it running
on my Linux box. Any other ideas?