Chapter 6 UNIX Settings

Configuring for SGI Irix

Configuring for SGI Irix

Finding Current

 

To properly attach SCSI devices to hosts it is necessary to ensure that each

SCSI Controllers

 

target device has a unique SCSI address. The command hinv can be used

and Targets

 

to find all attached SCSI controllers and target devices. To search for all

 

 

SCSI controllers and devices use the command:

 

 

hinv –v grep SCSI

 

 

The output of the command will be similar to the following:

 

 

Integral SCSI controller 0: Version ADAPTEC 7880

 

 

Disk drive unit 1 on SCSI controller 0

 

 

CD ROM unit 4 on SCSI controller 0

 

 

Integral SCSI controller 1: Version ADAPTEC 7880

 

 

Tape drive: unit 6 on SCSI controller 1: DAT

 

 

This output shows that a tape drive is present on SCSI controller 1 at SCSI

 

 

ID address #6. Available SCSI IDs are

 

 

0,2,3,5 6, 8 - 15 on controller 0

 

 

1 - 5 and 8 - 15 on controller 1 (this controller supports Wide/Ultra SCSI)

 

 

 

 

 

Note: SCSI ID #7 is almost always dedicated to the SCSI controller.

 

 

Never configure your target device for ID 7 unless you are

 

 

absolutely sure that the controller is not addressed for ID 7.

 

 

See table 2 on page 16 to view how to set the SCSI ID address

 

 

jumpers for the LTO-3 Tape Drives.

 

 

 

Modifying the IRIX To attach the LTO-3 Tape Drive to IRIX the file .scsi. needs to be modified

Configuration File by a text editor. The file can be found in /var/sysgen/master.d. Open the file and use the text editor to add the following at the end of the tape device entries:

For IRIX 6.4/6.5

{DATTAPE, TPDAT, 8, 7, “CERTANCE”, “ULTRIUM 3”, 0, 0, {0},

MTCAN_BSF MTCAN_BSR MTCAN_APPEND MTCAN_SETMK MTCAN_PREV MTCAN_SYNC MTCAN_SPEOD MTCAN_CHKRDY MTCAN_VAR MTCAN_SETSZ MTCAN_SILI MTCAN_SEEK

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