Hi everyone.
Im new to Sun Solaris or the Unix environment. My only background is the DOS command in windows and a little bit of c++ programming. I always worked with troubleshooting hardware and software issues with windows.
Now that I need to configure tape drives using sun solaris, I had trouble starting up as most resources on the internet is thru Sun Solaris 9 and the only available version from sun is version 10.
I installed it already but had trouble connecting an external tape drive.i did probe-scsi-all, but it says not found.so i thought,maybe i need boot -r command to detect the newly installed device, but boot -r is not found also, i tried touch /reconfigure ;reboot, but when i tried devfsadm, still no result. there is no dev/rmt directory either.the system is on dual-boot with windows so i know that the tape drive and scsi device is working fine.
sorry,for the very detailed explanation, im really new to this one.
any suggestion is very much appreciated.thanks a lot.

if probe-scsi-all didn't show the device check the hardware and make sure everything is actually compatible.

hi seg. thanks a lot.
just to follow up... i have IBM Thinkcentre .. with dual boot to Sun and Windows. I also have a PCI SCSI card and connected the tape drive. The HCL from sun does not list the compatible SCSI card for SUn solaris 10.
Is there any way to verify if its compatible.. ? thanks again.

There is no probe-scsi-all command on x86 hardware.
Have a look at BigAdmin HCL: Sun Device Detection Tool to check your SCSI card support.

Thanks a lot guys.
I installed the sun device detection tool and verified that the pci scsi adapter is not compatible.
I may need to read more about beginner's guide in solaris as I really dont know where to start.

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another follow up guys..

i removed the scsi card that i originally installed.. it turned out that the card is only compatible with sun os 32-bit and not 64-bit..
when i changed it to another scsi card, i was able to detect it thru cfgadm, it shows the scsi-bus, and it says connected but the status is unknown.
i use devfsadm to configure it but no luck as there is no /dev/rmt/0 directory or if i use " for foo in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 and check the status using mt -f status,it says not found.
i tried to use /var/adm to verify the activity of scsi drive but says cannot execute.
sorry guys, im at lost now after sun is able to detect the scsi card and tape drive., i guess the question now is how to configure the scsi and tape drive so that i can start a backup..
thanks again..

the cfgadm -al (as root) gives something like this

Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c0 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
c1 scsi-bus connected configured unknown

it it shows unconfigured try to configure it

cfgadm -c xxx (xxx is the number you see in cfgadm)

after run a devfsadm

thanks gnom..
it now says connected and configured.. though condition is still "unknown', unlike other devices like usb wherein, condition says "ok"

then i use the command:
for foo in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
> do
> mt-f/dev/rmt/$foo status
>done

to determine the directory of my tape drive but everything says "not found"..
i will try to research and get back here..

thanks again..