No pipe or tape drive after install

[marcmcconnell]

Hi

I've just installed AIX 4.2.1 on an RS6000 and since the new installation, I've had a couple of problems. Firstly, I am unable to get the 'pipe' symbol and the some of the keyboard symbols are in the wrong place eg the @ symbol at the ' button instead of 2 button. I am in the UK, using a UK keyboard (I've compared the primary language/keyboard in smit to other machines an it looks ok).

Also, I am unable to key the RS6000 to recognise my SCSI tape drive after cfgmgr and reboot. There are no tape drives defined and when I try to add the tape drive, it does not recognise it.

Thanks

 

[Chapter11]

Just curious, why install 4.2.1? Unless there's a particular requirement for that specific version, 4.3.3 has been out for a long time and is rock solid imo.

When you run cfgmgr, does it tell you it needs any additional filesets installed? What make/model tape drive is it? Check for SCSI type match/mismatch, SCSI ID conflicts?

 

[marcmcconnell]

Hi,

All our RS6000s run AIX 4.2.1. No upgrade to 4.3 or newer until the bosses tell us !

The tape is an IBM model 7208 011 (8mm 5Gb). There are no errors on cfgmgr -v and no scsi conflicts.

Also, any ideas about the keyboard character problem (no Pipe)

Thanks

 

[Chapter11]

Very odd. From what I see, the 7208 is an external device, so the only things I can think of would be the usual cable checks, termination checks, power cable, and so on for externally connected hardware. I've no intent to insult you if you've already covered those aspects, I'm just running down my mental checklist. Bad SCSI terminators have bitten me a few times in the past.

The only other thing I can think of that would result in this is if you had the tape drive connected to the wrong type of SCSI card (like a fast/wide card, but a slow/narrow device for example).

Can you test connecting the tape drive to another machine? Do you have another tape drive that works elsewhere to try to connect here?

On the keyboard, that's definately beyond my ken. I've only worked on USA keyboards and layouts, so I've never experimented with non-US keyboard/layout settings.

 

[Boria]

Hi,
if your tape drive was not powered at the time of installation check that all needed software were loaded from installation media.
Regards Boris