SYM8951U sees ch0 but not sa0

Dan Langille dan at langille.org
Sat Mar 29 14:33:05 UTC 2014


On Mar 28, 2014, at 7:33 PM, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 28.03.2014 22:55, schrieb Dan Langille:
> 
>> I did try swapping the cable and the terminator between the two
>> connectors on the rear of the library.  I ran 'camcontrol rescan all'
>> and 'camcontrol devlist' after each swap.  Never saw the drive.
>> 
>> By daisy-chain things, there are only two connectors on the rear, so I'm
>> not sure what else I could try, other than the above.
> 
> Two are at least two too few.
> 
> Sorry for the pun, I am not trying to make fun here.
> 
> Did you get the library with at least one drive fitted?  Check the
> drawings on pages 21, 199 and 201 in the PDF I mentioned:
>  There should be 2 SCSI connector sockets for the library, and 2 more
> SCSI connector sockets for each tape drive.  So an MSL5026 with two tape
> drives should have six SCSI connectors in total.  They are at the very
> bottom end, possibly hidden under the protruding back part of the
> drives, so be sure to check with the eyes at the same level as the
> bottom of the library.

That was it.  Thank you.

<COMPAQ SuperDLT1 5F5F>            at scbus7 target 1 lun 0 (pass12,sa1)
<COMPAQ MSL5000 Series 0520>       at scbus7 target 3 lun 0 (pass10,ch0)

The lessons:

* remember what you did in the past
* read the manual
* change your perspective

Much appreciated.  :)

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org

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