I'm running into a strange problem. We're just setting up this
environment so I don't know exactly how long this has gone
unnoticed -- possibly a month, since that's the last time
I did a backup (nobody was using the system) but a buggy Oracle
Apps patch blew away a file and we want it back. Now my systems
can't see the robot and one of the tape drives. It is a Tru64
environment with the tape drives and robot in a Compaq tape
library connected to a SAN (Fiber channel<->scsi bridge is MDR80).
Nothing has had power removed since last time when I had it working
(I ran into the same problem then, figured I might have played
with something before that, but this time I know it's been untouched).
Everything in the chain is seen except for one of the drives and
the robot (the library has 2 drives in it and I can see one of
them). Is there anything I should check? Is it possibly faulty
hardware? Maybe something I'm missing in a soft config somewhere?
Suggestions?
I'm pretty certain that if I bring the systems down and then power
down the library, MDR, and FC hub and then bring them back up
everything will come up fine, but I'd like to know why they
disappeared in the first place.
-Charles Ballowe
Received on Tue Nov 27 2001 - 16:35:04 NZDT