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I and a colleague tried for years to get one of these to work automatically and never got it working. Years earlier I had a Quantum Loader that never skipped a beat. We wound up using the web interface. Best of luck with your project.<BR>
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On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 02:51 -0800, John Doe wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">From: Abilio Carvalho <<A HREF="mailto:abilio.carvalho@bbp.ch">abilio.carvalho@bbp.ch</A>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I have Centos 5.2 and am trying to set up my first tape loader, a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Quantum SuperLoader 3. My "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" outputs the following:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Attached devices:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Vendor: transtec Model: PV610F16R1C Rev: 373I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Vendor: HP Model: Ultrium 3-SCSI Rev: D22D</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Vendor: HP Model: Ultrium 4-SCSI Rev: B54Z</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> It is my understanding that there should be TWO devices for the loader, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> one for the tape drive and one for itself. From reading around, it seems </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> that it's lacking Multiple LUM support. My question is, are more recent </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> versions of CentOS enabling that by default? Either compiling kernel </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> modules or doing a full upgrade of the system are "big" jobs in my case, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> but I'd prefer the upgrade if 5.5 works out of the box. Or do I really </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> need to recompile kernel, enable max_lums in modprobe.conf, etc?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hum... Last time I used an autoloader, around 1999, it was working out of the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">box...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I see 3 devices: the loader, and 2 drives...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Do you mean there is really only 1 drive?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">JD</FONT>
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