André wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You won't use ID 0. Try with another one.
>
> Bye
>
> rowan<cut-the-crap> @rownetco.com>" < wrote:
>
>>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?
>
>
>

Andre, I tried 0 through 6 (that's what I meant by "on up"). Is ID 0 the address on a MCA machine where ID 7
is used on ISA / PCI?