Both the HBA and switch are 1gig only, so it wont be trying to auto-neg
between the 1 and 2.


On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Tommy Wu wrote:

> Fibre Card(FC) port needs to hard set to 1Gig or 2Gig connection, FC
> settting "auto negotiation" will cause the scsi bus to reset and the
> tape devices will disapearing from the windows host. Use the Veritas
> TLD/Robot command to map the SSO tape drives
> "%install%/volmgr/bin/tpautoconf -show /or ../tpautoconfig -d " This
> command will show you the tape library drive physcal number, WWN, and
> the tape drive serial numbers.
> Good luck
> TWu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Steve
> Mickeler
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:36 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] sharing tape devices between windows and unix
>
>
>
> Based on the problem I just experienced, and taking into consideration
> I'm a unix guy, not a windows guy, is there a "proper" way to get the
> windows server, running windows 2003 server, to be able to use 3 of my
> drives from the unix side without it causing havoc on my side ?
>
> The windows server is a Dell Poweredge 1650 with a JNI 6410 PCI HBA
> attached to the SAN. It's running NBU 4.5 FP6 and has an SSO license
> installed.
>
> We've zoned a single drive that only the windows server can see and use.
> It was when I expanded the drives on the zone for the windows server
> when problems on the unix nbu environment occured. It appeared like the
> windows server was trying to communicate/use the shared tape drives even
> though they has not been allocated to any storage unit on the windows
> nbu config.
>
> I'd like to make this SSO setup work because the single tape device on
> the windows box will cause some problems in the event that both a
> restore and a backup are required at the same time.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Steve Mickeler wrote:
>
> >
> > The introduction of a new windows master server appears to be causing
> > the I/O interruptions.
> >
> > The windows master server was zoned to allow it to see 3 of the 4
> > drives that have been allocated to the unix master server & unix sso
> > servers.
> >
> > So now I have to figure out why the windows server is trying to
> > communicate with those 3 tape drives.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Steve Mickeler wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > The I/O errors are also cuasing netbackup to freeze the tape that
> > > was in the drive when the error occured.
> > >
> > > ie:
> > >
> > > 03/31/2004 13:41:46 harbor titan1  FROZE media id 000036, could not
> > > write tape mark to begin new image
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