<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">> On some systems, reboot is required? to access disk from SAN device.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This turned out to be a zoning issue. Although I had properly created the zone, I had to add it to our "Prod" configuration to make it live. Once that was done, the virtual tape library was recognized right away:</div>
<div><br></div><div>kernel: Vendor: HP Model: MSL G3 Series Rev: EL21</div><div>kernel: Type: Medium Changer ANSI SCSI revision: 03</div><div>kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 8</div>
<div>kernel: Vendor: HP Model: Ultrium 4-SCSI Rev: ED41</div><div>kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03</div><div>kernel: scsi 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 1</div>
<div>kernel: st: Version 20070203, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256</div><div>kernel: st 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi tape st0</div><div>kernel: st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
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