We develop it on solaris 8, but in principle you could compile the sources on anything as far back as sol2. For oracle solaris fibre channel devices it is often necessary to rebuild the netbackup sg driver in order for. The work around for this issue is to manually issue a modprobe sg command which should load the sg driver. Managing devices in the oracle solaris os oracle solaris. Having a supported graphics card on the hcl is very importantmore important than a supported motherboard. Passengers, if permitted, must be at least 12 years old. Solaris troubleshooting recreating etcpathtoinstall. Installing the oracle solaris drivers sun storage 10 gbe fcoe. To take advantage of this extended scsi target limit it is necessary to configure the st scsi tape driver, the sg scsi passthru driver, and the device links files so that the sg driver will see these devices with the higher scsi targets. The utility was originally written for linux and has ports to freebsd, solaris and windows. Netbackup device configuration guide red hat customer portal. Note that mt means max targets and ml represents max lun.
These settings can be modified to only scan the targets that are known to have attached tape drives. The books are a must for developers, system programmers, and systems administrators who work with solaris 8, 9, or 10. The solaris xfree86 video drivers and porting kit expands significantly the number of video devices that work with solaris on x86 platforms. Here are the basic steps to rebuild the dev sg and devrmt devices on a solaris server. After the sg driver is loaded, the dev sg devices should be present and the sg. Topics are described for both sparc and x86 based systems, where appropriate. Suse linux enterprise server 10 amd64em64t suse linux enterprise server 10 x86. Introduction this is a short paper to give you some feel for how to deal with the solaris operating system when you are faced with a fault, and need to restore the system to healthy operation quickly without resorting to pulling your cv from the bottom draw and calling the local employment agencies. Oct 30, 2012 silent corruption is not even negotiable possibility ok its time to replace hard drive, but how to locate it in the chassis. If you do not have cdrom burner you can mount iso images directly. Unable to create attach points for tape drive using sgen driver in solaris. Use the provided script to recreate the kerneldrvnf file, append the scsa entries to etcdevlink.
End user access command center commcell disaster recovery client recovery full system recovery. Drives are not being recognized by the os steps to rebuild the dev sg and devrmt devices on a solaris master or media server solution here are the basic steps to rebuild the dev sg and devrmt devices on a solaris server. It cannot see if a scsi command could not be sent at all. By jason mccullough, july 11, 2003 storage area networks have moved from the cutting edge to almost commonplace.
Installingreinstalling the sg and the st drivers veritas. Even if you know the exact slot position, serial number is always a welcomed additional security measure. Jurgen keil provided the updated solaris xfree86 video drivers and porting kit based on xfree86 4. But, if this is your first time connecting remote storage to solaris, there are a number of configuration tasks that will be new to you if you have only worked with directly attached scsi arrays or suns legacy fibre channel arrays such as. Under what circumstances do you have to regenerate the sg driver sg. Below are the steps to rebuild the devsg and devrmt and to detect robot devices on a solaris server. Solaris operating system version 11 and later solaris x64x86 operating system version 11 and later information in this document applies to any platform. Under what circumstances do you have to regenerate the sg driver nfsg. Whit the prtconf command im unable to identify the correct chipsets model. Finding hdd serial number in solaris its all bullshit.
Copied directly from symantec article url here are the basic steps to rebuild the dev sg and devrmt devices on a solaris. Drives are not being recognized by the os steps to rebuild the devsg and devrmt devices on a solaris master or media server solution here are the basic steps to rebuild the devsg and devrmt devices on a solaris server. Driver must be at least 16 years old with a valid drivers license to operate. There are registers that have default values, that are showing up as 0. Storage requirements for servers and applications is constantly changing. But, if this is your first time connecting remote storage to solaris, there are a number of configuration tasks that will be new to you if you have only worked with directly attached scsi arrays or suns legacy fibre channel arrays such as the. Nightwish the kinslayer zfs is one of the those technologies out there that really kicks some serious ass.
This chapter explains how to verify the eg device driver software on solaris x86 systems and how to install the e driver on linux and microsoft windows systems. If you wish to use one of these tarballs then untar it in usrsrclinux or wherever the top of your kernel tree is. It becomes very important to be able to allocate or deallocate space without interruption to service. The sg driver provides robotic control, which includes a device file for each device in the. Drives are not being recognized by the os steps to rebuild the dev. Drives are not being recognized by the os steps to rebuild. Unfortunately, the sg driver on linux has several severe bugs. X windows solaris x86 faq x windows how do i find a solaris video driver for my graphics card. Solaris 11, by default has the top package installed. Hi all, i have got an ibm 3584 fc tape library attached via a switched fabric to a set of solaris 9 sparc servers. Rebuild tape devices on solaris for netbackup on netbackup solaris servers, when i add a new tape drive or change the device paths in anyway devrmt entries changed i need rebuild the sg devices in devsg as well. Mounting solaris drive to windows with nfs sun solaris.
When using cdrecord with the broken linux scsi generic driver. Mounting a cd brief chet car for mounting cdroms on. Understanding the scsi passthru drivers netbackup media manager provides its own driver for communicating with scsicontrolled robotic peripherals. The bsg driver has device names of the form devbsg0. This applies to internal and external disk drives as well as virtual disks. Steps to rebuild the devsg and devrmt devices on a.
Solaris should detect and rebuild the proper devices within devrmtcbn. Hmm, right this second im struggling to see what we can do within nbu as described, the setup of the sg driver is simple. Always use seat belts and cab nets or doors as equipped. Mounting a cd brief chet car for mounting cdroms on different flavours of unix. Raid 10 protects you from a single drive failure the mirror takes over for a time while you replace the failed disk and rebuild the copy. Hi to all, ive installed solaris 10 on my workstation but ive some networks problems. The command iostat input output statistics help us to get started with analyzing a disk io bottleneck issue. The problem is that only the first 8 drives are still visible from the servers. The following table summarizes the different versions of the sg device driver that are available. Degraded mirror unmanageable with raidctl after drive replacement. An io performance bottleneck can be due to a disk or even due to a hba or a hba driver. This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris 11 release. Suse linux enterprise server 10 x86 suse linux enterprise server 11 x86. Autoconfiguration is used when you add a new device and driver to the system.
Customer has accidentally destroyed a disk group, or there was some private region corruption. All of these entries should be removed, otherwise duplicates will be added later. After the sg driver is loaded, the devsg devices should be present and the sg driver can be used to access scsi devices. The qlc and qlge drivers are included with the oracle solaris 10 01 and the oracle solaris 11. Installing and setting up the device driver software.
Whit the prtconf command im unable to identify the the unix and linux forums. To start catalog image consistency bpdbm consistency 2. Where does the sg get its information when it scans for luns i. I want to notice that i moved this tape library to other v240 box, on solaris 10 too, without fc cards, and driver installed perfectly. Since everything is mirrored duplicated, four 2tb disks in raid 10 give you a total capacity of 4tb of usable space. How to rebuild the devsg and devrmt devices on a solaris. Everything in this section should be removed, inclusive of the beginning and ending lines. Rebuild tape devices on solaris for netbackup on netbackup solaris servers, when i add a new tape drive or change the device paths in anyway devrmt entries changed i need rebuild the sg devices in dev sg as well. After the sg driver is loaded, the dev sg devices should be present and the sg driver can be used to access scsi devices. Rebuild tape devices on solaris for netbackup blogger. The solaris tape and disk driver interfaces also create a device file for each tape or. On netbackup solaris servers, when i add a new tape drive or change the device paths in anyway devrmt entries changed i need rebuild the sg devices in devsg as well.
All riders should always wear helmets, eye protection, and protective clothing. On solaris server sometimes the fault is happened and the driver could not be recognized by the os. If the device files are required, you must recreate them. You will need to have several things on hand to successfully complete a rebuild. Symantec netbackup device configuration guide unix. Ibmmounting the cdrom solaris operating environment mounting solaris cdroms. To manage the sg driver perform the following steps as the root user. The tape library originally came with 8 fc drives, but was recently upgraded to 16 drives.
My nic,a broadcom integrated chipset dont work with solaris. Determine if an sg driver is loaded by using the following command. Ensure that the destination client is same as source client while. The book covers a range of oracle solaris system administration topics related to managing removable media, disks and devices and file systems. You should note that cdrecord uses a hack, that tries to emulate the functionality of the scg driver. This file is a compressed solaris install package for use with all qlogic qla23xx pci to fc adapters, qcp234x cpci to fc, and qsb234x sbus to fc adapters. Here are the basic steps to rebuild the devsg and devrmt devices on a solaris server without rebooting.
The solution was to use luxadm, cfgadm and defsamd commands to reconfigure the connection of the drives back onto the fibre fabric. Solaris driver and hp autoloader 18 oracle community. Quick guide to rebuilding the sg drivers in solaris 10. The eg device driver software comes bundled with the solaris 10 1106 operating system and later compatible versions. Hi all, i try to configure two hp ultrium 6scsi tape drives on solaris 10 x86 but without success. Sbpci solaris driver this is the home page for the free pci soundblaster driver for solaris. After running devfsadm c c tape i can see the new drives in the os.
Ive got the boss convinced that we dont need to be able to execute the mount command as nonroot, as long as i. Here are the basic steps to rebuild the dev sg and devrmt devices on a solaris server without rebooting. Details about my hpt driver can now be found on the separate highpoint 366 solaris driver page. If the following message is received then step 10 will not successful device busy cannot unload module sg will be unloaded upon reboot running the command. Recreate disk 2 partition table using fdisk to be 100% solaris and rebuild solaris partitionslice table using prtvtocfmthard remirror disk 2 so its almost identical to how it was at the beginning, except the x86 partition table is now one big solaris partition. On occasion, it is necessary to recreaterebuild the passthrough driver. Os steps to rebuild the devsg and devrmt devices on a solaris. And im searching hovewer for some drivers but im fear that broadcom dont release driver for solaris. Jun 12, 2007 on solaris server sometimes the fault is happened and the driver could not be recognized by the os. I have a solaris 10 x86 server connected by fc switch to a sl500 tape library and 2hp lto5. How to scan new storage luns scsiiscsi fcsas by admin it becomes very important to be able to allocate or deallocate space without interruption to service. First look in the hcl for your release of solaris to see if your graphics card is supported. Upon reboot, solaris should detect and rebuild the proper devices within devrmtcbn.
Solaris crash recovery and fault analysis by g calkin. This driver is called the scsa generic scsi passthru driver, also referred to as the sg driver. File systems full system recovery solaris file system agent rebuilding the solaris operating system. If your system uses the solaris x86 operating system you might want to check the version of the driver and ensure the sun x4 pciexpress quad gigabit ethernet utp low profile adapter is properly loaded and is recognized by the solaris x86 operating system. Unfortunately the server is production and could not be rebooted. You must install the netbackup sg driver and the sun st driver on each solaris netbackup media server that hosts tape devices. Drives are not being recognized by the os steps to. However, keep in mind that raid 10 redundancy cuts your usable disk space in half.
Dec 11, 2012 below are the steps to rebuild the dev sg and devrmt and to detect robot devices on a solaris server. Additionally, the following enhancements were made. The steps and usage of commands are explained in device config guide as mentioned above. Prior to below steps i have verified the outputs in cfgadm to check tapes and media changer robot status. I just need to get netbackup to see the drives without rebooting. Rebuild the operating system in the event of a disaster. Drivers can be loaded and tested without having to rebuild the kernel and reboot the system. Mar 16, 2015 rebuilding a disk group from cbr backups. Hi, we have added 6 new tape drives to our solaris 10 media servers. A current cbr backup etcvxcbrbk the file ending in. Unloading the sg driver may impact netbackup performance.
Never engage in stunt driving, and avoid excessive speeds and sharp. Dec 18, 2006 to manage the sg driver perform the following steps as the root user. The scsi passthrough driver sg driver on solaris allows scsi. This document provides some approaches to discovering new storage, without performing a reconfiguration reboot. Apr 16, 2018 this issue is due to changes in the os where the sg driver is no longer loaded during system boot. Mar 09, 2012 rebuild tape devices on solaris for netbackup on netbackup solaris servers, when i add a new tape drive or change the device paths in anyway devrmt entries changed i need rebuild the sg devices in dev sg as well. See the comparison matrix between sun, xfree86 and xi graphics software.
Aiptek usb videocam driver ov511ov7260 hardware this one seems to have a little trouble doing reads of the main usb bridge hardware. How to rebuild the devsg and devrmt devices on a solaris master. Mounting and unmounting the essentials cdrom on solaris. Rebuild the dev sg and devrmt devices on a solaris server without rebooting 1. As a precaution you may wish to copy the files includescsi sg. In 9 out 10 cases, the sg driver needs to be rebuilt. The bsg driver also supports the sg version 4 interface which at this time the sg driver does not. Ok, so how can one see serial number of hard drive on solaris. So it seems that i have some misconfiguration on v490 machine, that prevents driver from correct operation. These quick steps work in most cases its sometimes necessary to add more targets or more luns. How to configure tape drive on solaris for veritas netbackup. Dec 28, 2012 on netbackup solaris servers, when i add a new tape drive or change the device paths in anyway devrmt entries changed i need rebuild the sg devices in dev sg as well.
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