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Solaris 10 - Tape drive not available

Hello everyone

I have a HP StorageWorks Ultrium 920 SAS connected to a server with Solaris 10 on it. The tape drive is connected over a HP P212 controller.
Now i'm not able to see the drive. The /dev/rmt directory is empty.

I tried to install the driver for the controller, but when i was about to run the .pkg file the following error appears:
pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
- open of <pwd/CPQary3> failed, errno=2

The Command i used was:
$ pwd
/var/tmp/CPQary3-x.y.z -solaris10-i386
$ su
# pkgadd -d ‘pwd‘/CPQary3.pkg CPQary3

Any ideas how i can manage to access this tape drive?

David

Looks like you have the wrong driver. The solaris drivers at the HP site have a different file name.

Did you get drivers here:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=hp%20p212%20driver%20solaris&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fh20000.www2.hp.com%2Fbizsupport%2FTechSupport%2FSoftwareIndex.jsp%3Flang%3Den%26cc%3Dus%26prodNameId%3D3885792%26prodTypeId%3D329290%26prodSeriesId%3D3885791%26swLang%3D13%26taskId%3D135%26swEnvOID%3D2023&ei=FxK0TtCVKsWq2gXay-jNDQ&usg=AFQjCNF2AUH3K4ggRXJ3eeo5eXRo8RsZ1A

Plus, since this is a raid controller, then frankly, all bets are off if the controller supports tape drives under solaris. You generally want a non-RAID controller for tapes, especially something as fast as the ultrium 920

ASInfotrack

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Yes the driver i tried to install is from that link. Is this the wrong one?

I have to do this for a customer so i don't think he likes to buy a new controller.

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ASInfotrack

ASKER

Ok that doesn't sound very well :(
Do you think it would be easier with another Unix or Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu?
Or what would you do to get this stuff working?

Thx a lot for your time.

ASInfotrack

ASKER

I managed to get i working with ubuntu server.