ServRAID 5i and DLT

[Jeroen Molinger]

Nope, it is not going to work. Just add a other U320 controller card for 
the tape.

I alaways use the 6M card with the internal controller for the tape

gr

Jeroen Molinger

Alexandre Vasconcelos wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I've searched for this on google and list archives without success..
> I have on IBM xSeries 235, ServRAID 5i adapter, 3 disks on channel 0 
> and a Benchmark DLT tape on channel 1. The adapter bios shows one 
> logical drive and one "other" (probably the tape). I've installed 
> FreeBSD 5.3, the GENERIC kernel can see this adapter (ips), dmesg | 
> grep ips shows:
>
> [root at barracuda kernel]# dmesg | grep ips
> ips0: <IBM ServeRAID Adapter> mem 0xf4000000-0xf7ffffff irq 22 at 
> device 3.0 on pci5
> ips0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
> ips0: adapter type: ServeRAID 5i II (sarasota)
> ips0: logical drives: 1
> ips0: Logical Drive 0: RAID5 sectors: 286744576, state OK
> ipsd0: <Logical Drive> on ips0
> ipsd0: Logical Drive  (140012MB)
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ipsd0s1a
>
> But it don't recognize any tapes, there's no "nsa?" output on dmesg, 
> but a bios utility from ibm (pc doctor) shows Benchmark on the second 
> channel. I've made some tests with Red Hat AS3 and it shows Benchmark 
> while booting.. IBM identifies this unit as 40/80 GB HH DLTVS Internal 
> Tape Drive.
>
> The adapter utility don't show any special configuration.. I have 
> another server with one HP DLT unit that is recognized as BENCHMARK on 
> FreeBSD 4.10, so I don't think this is a tape type problem.. does 
> FreeBSD support this tape on this adapter? I don't want to run Linux 
> on this server :(
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alexandre Vasconcelos
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