3581 Tape Autoloader Suse Enterprise 9

profundd@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm trying to install a IBM 3581 Tape Autoloader on a Suse Enterprise 9
> server running on HP Proliant DL380 G4 . The 3581 is recognized on POST but
> I can't get SE9 to see it in anyway:
>
> # cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> #
>
> # lsscsi
> #
>
> I'm running 2.6.5-7.191-bigsmp, can someone help me?


See Novell/SUSE TID "SLES 9: Adding a SCSI tape drive using the cciss
driver - TID 10094676"

In summary some SmartArray + Tape Drive combinations need to be
re-initialised to detect the drive after boot up, edit the system local
boot configuration file “/etc/init.d/boot.local” and append the following:

# See Novell/SUSE TID "SLES 9: Adding a SCSI tape drive using the cciss
driver - TID 10094676"
for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]*
do
echo "engage scsi" > $x
done


Regards,

Stephen Chaddock
Boot Computers Limited - Operations Department