I followed the Tape FC SAN recommendations from Netapp to configure the switch:

full fabric mode with quickloop disabled.

port scanning disable.

use hard addressing.

two tape and filer/hba in the same zone

On bridge mc and drives are contiguous but i need to configure point to point only two drives to filer in the same zone. I have overlapping zone, where this two drives with the rest (mc and third tape drive ) are conennecting in loop to a Legato server in another zone.

You may need to implement zoning on the switch so that the filer can only see

the bridge and nothing else. Create a zone that contains just the ports for the filer and

the bridge. I've seen this in similar scenarios - filers don't like to see other filers or servers.

There's a specific reference to this error msg on NOW, but it's not particularly helpful:

On the bridge, check that the LUNs for the library and drives number from zero and

are contiguous, ie 0,1,2,3,etc and make the library controller LUN 0.

The "nsshow" command on the switch will tell you which devices have logged into the

fabric and registered with the nameserver. Make sure the bridge and filer appear in this

list on the correct ports.

btw, you seem to have differing f/w levels on the LTO drives - probably not a good idea.

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Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:50 PM

Subject: FC TapeSAN with IBM 3583 errors

Has anyone working a Filer with a FC tape adapter (X2051A) with a IBM 3583 in SAN Brocade enviroment?

I trying without success to connect to Bridge FC/SCSI in IBM 3583 from FC tape adapter in Filer825 which send the following error messages.

Any information will be apreciated

Fri Oct 24 11:58:53 ART [rc:notice]: Onlining Fibre Channel adapter 1a.

Fri Oct 24 11:58:53 ART [ispfc_init_0:error]: Nameserver request GID_FT

from Fibre Channel adapter 1a failed: (0x8001, 0x9, 0x7) Server unable to perform operation. FC-4 types not registered.

Fri Oct 24 11:58:53 ART [ispfc_init_0:error]: Nameserver request GNN_FT

from Fibre Channel adapter 1a failed: (0x8001, 0x9, 0x7) Server unable to perform operation. FC-4 types not registered.

Fri Oct 24 11:58:53 ART [ispfc_init_0:error]: Note: Interrogation of SAN visible from Fibre Channel adapter 1a shows no SCSI devices attached to this fabric.

Fri Oct 24 11:58:53 ART [ispfc_init_0:notice]: Fibre Channel adapter 1a now online

F825 ONTAP 6.4.2P6 (FC card X2051A)

IBM 3583

2 - IBM ULT3580-TD1 25D4

1 - IBM ULT3580-TD1 36U3

Brocade Silkworm 3200 (fw 3.0.2c)

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