You should run sysconfig and make sure of which slot the FC card that is attached to the library is in.

Then, go into advanced user mode: rc_toggle_basic and use the fcadmin tool to refresh the card.

For example, if the card is in slot 4, you could do the following:

stimpy>rc_toggle_basic stimpy*>fcadmin online 4

This would re-init the card and look for devices attached to it again. You can do this without rebooting the filer or interrupting service to clients as long as the only thing plugged into the card is the connection to the tape drive.

Hope this helps!

-Marc

On Mon, 01 Jul 2002, Bruce Arden wrote:

| Is anyone using FC/AL to connect filers to tape libraries? | | I am using Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (ie no switch) to connect my | filer running 6.2R2 to an ATL P3000 tape library. | | When I first did this the filer could not see the tape drives until it | was rebooted (although it could see the FC bridge in the library a soon | as it was plugged in). | | I just had to power cycle the library. Now the filer can't see the tape | drives ("sysconfig -t" or "storage show tape" say "No tapes found.") but | it can see the FC bridge. | | Is anyone else seeing this? Is there any workaround, apart from buying | a switch or rebooting the filer every time the library is power cycled? | | - Bruce | | -- | Bruce Arden arden@nortelnetworks.com barden2@csc.com | CSC, Nortel, London Rd, Harlow, England +44 1279 40 2877 | | |