Tape Drive Issue

[jjjon]

I'm installed a 7.3.2 Storage Node on a Windows 2000 server, but I'm having a problem with the tape drives. I can see 4 drives (IBM LTO-2 in an ACSLS Silo) when I run INQUIRE, but it doesn't show up the hardware path. I've updated to latest IBM tape driver, but nothing.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks

 

[605]

Do you see the drives in Windows at all?

Never worked with an ACLSL Silo on Windows but i know that you must install 'Libattach' here. Is it present?

 

[jjjon]

I don't have the LibAttach installed - but I don't believe I need it. I can see the 4 drives under Windows, but it's not showing me any hardware path, which I need to assign the drive under NW, and ensure correct drive order.

Thanks

 

[605]

If you mean that Windows will not assign any device name, don't even proceed. NW can only use drives which are available for the operating system. Cure this problem first.

 

[TDun]

You will need Libattach so that the Windows server can talk to the ACSLS server. The mounts & dismounts get sent over the network, not as SCSI packets.

 

[jjjon]

The problem is that the Inquire command doesn't give me the hardware path of the drives, but I can see the drives in the OS - I've since found out that 7.3.2 has a patch for this, so hopefully this will sort me out. (The server in a Storage Node) I'll update when I get a hold of the patch.