Thanks Pramod,

The online/offline worked fine.

I hadn't tried this before because it didn't appear to work when I first installed the library.

- Bruce

-- Bruce Arden arden@nortelnetworks.com barden2@csc.com CSC, Nortel, London Rd, Harlow, England +44 1279 40 2877

Pramod wrote:

Hi, Have you tried offline and online if the Tape HBA.

go the advanced mode - priv set advanced

*> fcadmin offline <Tape adapter> ex: fcadmin offline 1a *> fcadmin online <Tape Adapter>

Do this everytime you restart your library or ur bridge. This should work.

Thanks Pramod

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Arden" arden@nortelnetworks.com To: "toasters" toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 3:48 PM Subject: FC/AL connection to tape library.

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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