Sorry for the late summary:
Thanks to all those that responded. I also contacted HP support on this. I
apparantly have to do (at boot prompt)
>>>init
>>>set mode diag
>>>wwidmgr -set adapter -item 9999 -topo [fabric|loop]
>>>wwidmgr -show adapter
>>>init
fabric for SAN switch and loop for hubs. Others also pointed out that the
adapters have to be in the same zone as the tape drives. I will be doing
this during our next shutdown.
> We installed two KGPSA-CA adapters on this Alpha 8400 system running unix
> 5.1. These will be used in high speed backup to remote tape facility on a
> SAN. At time of install we didn't have the cables ready and hence couldn't
> hook them up. When the system came up, I could see emx0 and emx2 in "hwmgr
> view hierarchy" command. Now the cables (to SAN hub) are laid out, I
> connected them to the cards and issued a "hwmgr scan scsi" command but saw
> no new devices on emx0 or emx2. I wasn't sure which way these cable are
> plugged in, hence I flipped end piece on one of them 180 degrees thinking
> atleast one has to be right. The middle LED on both cards are slowly
> blinking in green other wise no other LEDs blink (there are three on
each).
> As we never had fiber channel HBAs on this machine I am kind of confused
as
> to how to bring in these new tape devices.
>
> thanks
> SS
>
>
Received on Tue Feb 04 2003 - 20:44:48 NZDT