Hi !
Is there a way to scan the SCSI cards (onboard and also the external SCSI) for new tape devices ?
We have F760, and 5.3.4R3P2D4...
Eyal.
If you added the tape drive to a running filer, I believe you are just supposed to reboot the filer.
Bruce
I'm trying to find out if I can save the reboot... :)
Also, does somebody (from NetApp ?!?) can explain the rc_toggle_basic commands: scsi_test scsi_start|stop and tape_test ?
Eyal.
Bruce Sterling Woodcock wrote:
If you added the tape drive to a running filer, I believe you are just supposed to reboot the filer.
Bruce
I'm trying to find out if I can save the reboot... :)
Well, I think the problem is even if you could do a probe-scsi type thing, how do you know there isn't some more initialization that the Netapp needs to do on startup for proper functioning? Why risk hours of possible frustration trying to get something to work and waiting on an answer here when you could have rebooted it 20 minutes ago at 3:00AM and be done with it? :)
I think it's a fair question to ask... can you do a probe-scsi... but I think that's a different question from "What should I do to add a tape drive?"
Bruce
* Eyal Traitel (eyal.traitel@motorola.com) done spit this rhetoric:
I'm trying to find out if I can save the reboot... :)
That's probably going to to be more trouble than it's worth, as the SCSI port is not meant to have components plugged in while the machine is running...
Also, does somebody (from NetApp ?!?) can explain the rc_toggle_basic commands: scsi_test scsi_start|stop and tape_test ?
IIRC, these are manufacturing commands used for testing, and shouldn't be used on a production system. That's why they are hidden ;)
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