Summary - Adding tape drive.

Thanks to:
Sean Berry
Darren Dunham
jsconiers
Peter Stokes
Thomas Autry

I have come to the conclusion based on the experience of Thomas and advice from
Peter and having tried every conceivable permutation of devfsadm, 
cfgadm,tapes etc.,
that the X6541A and the DLT8000 will not work together. The X6541A is LVD
and the DLT8000 is single ended. The moral is don't rely on Sun to sell you
the right stuff.
At 17:14 7/01/2003 +1100, you wrote:
>On a V880 I a have successfully hot-plugged an X6541A dual channel adapter.
>Both scsi channels show up in cfgadm. There is a tape drive (DLT8000 as ID 4)
>on one of the channels. Nothing I have done seems to make the drive visible to
>the system. I have tried configuring each channel but it does nothing. I 
>have tried
>using the -x hardware_function options of cfgadm such as insert_device and
>reset_all on both channels but the drive remains stubbornly invisible. I 
>have tried
>different cables and I have even tried a different drive but I still can't 
>see anything.
>I have come to the conclusion that I am doing something stupid or unsupported
>but I don't know what. Below is a listing from cfgadm. Any suggestions as 
>to what
>I do next would be appreciated. c2 and c3 are the scsi channels of the X6541A
>adapter which is in PCI slot pcisch0:hpc1_slot0.
>
>Ap_Id                          Type         Receptacle   Occupant 
>Condition
>SBa                            cpu/mem      connected    configured   ok
>SBa::cpu0                      cpu          connected    configured   ok
>SBa::cpu1                      cpu          connected    configured   ok
>SBa::memory                    memory       connected    configured   ok
>SBb                            cpu/mem      connected    configured   ok
>SBb::cpu0                      cpu          connected    configured   ok
>SBb::cpu1                      cpu          connected    configured   ok
>SBb::memory                    memory       connected    configured   ok
>SBc                            none         empty        unconfigured ok
>SBd                            none         empty        unconfigured ok
>c0                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
>c0::dsk/c0t6d0                 CD-ROM       connected    configured   unknown
>c2                             scsi-bus     connected    unconfigured unknown
>c3                             scsi-bus     connected    unconfigured unknown
>pcisch0:hpc1_slot0             mult/hp      connected    configured   ok
>pcisch0:hpc1_slot1             unknown      empty        unconfigured unknown
>pcisch0:hpc1_slot2             unknown      empty        unconfigured unknown
>pcisch0:hpc1_slot3             unknown      empty        unconfigured unknown
>pcisch2:hpc2_slot4             unknown      empty        unconfigured unknown
>pcisch2:hpc2_slot5             unknown      empty        unconfigured unknown
>pcisch2:hpc2_slot6             unknown      empty        unconfigured unknown
>pcisch3:hpc0_slot7             unknown      empty        unconfigured unknown
>pcisch3:hpc0_slot8             unknown      empty        unconfigured unknown
>
>
>
>Tim Hespe
>System Admin.
>University of New South Wales Library
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System Admin.
University of New South Wales Library
t.hespe@unsw.edu.au 
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