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# 1  
Old 03-19-2007
how to install tape drive on sun ver 5.9

hi,

need your help mentors I have external SCSI tape DRIVE COmpaq 15/30 GB DLT and I dont know how to install these and how to view if it is working. I'm also have another disk taken form my old sun and I want to use these also but my problem how I able to mount.

hope anyone can help me

thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 03-20-2007
solaris should use the native st module (SCSI tape Driver), plug your cable in and run the "devfsadm -v" command. you should find a /dev/rmt/0 device now. to test it, you can use "mt status" or "tar" to backup something...

same way with your new drive, but we would need more information to guide you, post an "iostat -En" output after devfsadm....

gP
# 3  
Old 03-20-2007
thanks..
I'll try this
# 4  
Old 03-20-2007
hi sorry to bother you guys I really have a problem on this, Just want to know how do I get in on this server using telnet, I have a workstation then I want to telnet this but it says "Not on system console
Connection closed by foreign host"

even I used the root account,is their any restriction of these server that I have to changed?

thank you very very much for your help
# 5  
Old 03-20-2007
you have to enable the "root-login" in your /etc/default/login:

# If CONSOLE is set, root can only login on that device.
# Comment this line out to allow remote login by root.
#
# CONSOLE=/dev/console

regards pressy
# 6  
Old 03-20-2007
Hi Pressy it works now Smilie
I'm thankful for this forum site it helps me a lot

Thanks for sharing your skills Pressy
# 7  
Old 03-20-2007
Hi Pressy,

Heres the result of iostat -En

# iostat -En
c0t1d0 Soft Errors: 1 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST34520LC Revision: 1483 Serial No:
Size: 4.54GB <4536791040 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 1 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c0t3d0 Soft Errors: 1 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST34371W Revision: 0532 Serial No:
Size: 4.35GB <4349030400 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 1 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c0t6d0 Soft Errors: 2 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0

Vendor: TOSHIBA Product: XM-4101TASUNSLCD Revision: 1084 Serial No: 04/18/94
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 2 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
rmt/0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: DEC Product: DLT2000 15/30 GB Revision: 840B Serial No: a


here is also the result when I execute the df -k command
df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 2193251 959997 1189389 45% /
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
swap 678460 16 678444 1% /var/run
swap 678744 300 678444 1% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7 1434346 9 1376964 1% /export/home

How i able to mount the second drive, by the way the second drive has a data on it thats why I need to have this mounted so that i can see it

Thansk very much
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